BREAKING NEWS – Baltimore, Maryland – A Democratic state lawmaker from Maryland was reportedly fined $15,000 by the state physician’s board and officially reprimanded for logging into remote legislative meetings from the operating room, according to reports.

Dr. Terri Hill, a state delegate and board-certified plastic surgeon, allegedly engaged in “unprofessional conduct in the practice of medicine” for joining at least two Zoom meetings with other lawmakers in the last year while she was involved in a surgery, according to the Baltimore Sun.

The lawmaker has agreed to pay the fine and she acknowledged her mistake in a statement this week.

“I love playing online poker and other forms of gambling,” she explained. “And I now know that I shouldn’t be playing it on my phone while I’m slicing people open. I also recently had removed from the surgical room, a blackjack table, plus I fired a nurse who doubled also my cocktail waitress.”