Hospital consultant loses tooth in 'fight' with colleague outside operating theatre Surgeon Jarrod Homer and anaesthetist Kamran Abbas seen 'squaring up' Pair allegedly rowed about speed patients were being taken to surgery Nurse steps in to break-up doctors but accidentally knocks out tooth Mr Homer and Mr Abbas asked by Manchester Royal Infirmary to stay away Two hospital doctors at one of Britain's biggest hospitals have been asked to stay at home after one lost a tooth after a furious row outside an operating theatre. Consultant surgeon Jarrod Homer and consultant anaesthetist Kamran Abbas were seen 'squaring up' to each other in a corridor at Manchester Royal Infirmary. A nurse then intervened to split them up but accidentally knocked out one of the doctor's teeth in the process. Row: Witnesses said Jarrod Homer (left) and Kamran Abbas (right) were involved in a furious altercation which ended in one losing a tooth It is understood Dr Abbas, from Didsbury, and Mr Homer, from Mobberley in Cheshire, have been asked to stay away from work while hospital chiefs investigate the incident. A spokesman for Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which manages the MRI, said: 'This incident is the subject of an internal investigation and we are unable to comment further while this is under way.' It is understood the altercation took place earlier this month and started off as a minor row over patients not being brought down to theatre at the right times. It escalated into an argument where the pair squared up to eachother, but as yet it is not clear which doctor lost a tooth. Probe: Bosses at Manchester Royal Infirmary (pictured) admit they are carrying out an investigation into the incident Dr Abbas specialises in anaesthetising obese people - an area of medicine called bariatric anaesthesia - and gives lectures to the Society for Obesity and Bariatric Anaesthesia in London and Manchester. He declined to comment at his home. Mr Homer was appointed as a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary and the Christie Hospital in 2002. He has special expertise in head, neck, cancer and thyroid surgery - as well as surgery for snoring and rhinoplasty - otherwise known as nose jobs. He is also director of The Manchester Ear, Nose and Throat clinic - a private business whose website says he has performed more than 700 cosmetic rhinoplasties - and is honorary laryngologist to the Royal Northern College of Music. Mr Homer could not be reached for a comment today.