He did it under his parents’ watch:
The 15-year-old son of two doctors performed a filmed Caesarean section birth under his parents’ watch in southern India in an apparent bid to gain a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest surgeon.Instead, the boy’s father could be stripped of his licenses and may face criminal charges, officials said Thursday.
Dr. K. Murugesan showed a recording of his son performing a Caesarean section to an Indian Medical Association chapter in the southern state of Tamil Nadu last month, said Dr. Venkatesh Prasad, secretary of the association. The video showed Murugesan anesthetizing the patient.
(via Doctor Anonymous)
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The article doesn’t say if the person the surgery was performed upon consented to being operated on by a 15 year old.
I wonder if she knew? Part of me thinks, “SURELY they would have told her,” but then I think anyone who’d let their 15 year old son do major abdominal surgery on someone… and then I’m not so sure.
This just goes to show how much time we waste in college, etc when most of our medical education is obtained in residency. Might as well get right to it before presbyopia and a bad back puts an end to ones surgical career.
Can anyone find this on youtube anywhere? I’m kinda curious how it went.
Shocked on seeing the news on London Metro newspaper. The operation has been done on a poor villager.
Will Dr. Murugesan able to make his son do this operation to his wife or any higher authorities in India?
A serious action should be taken on Dr.Murugesan for taking advantage of a poor mother.
forget about having a barmitzvah at 13…. concentrate on doing your first abdominal case at 15!!!!!!.
I wonder if his parents own a Holiday Inn Express….
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