15-year-old performs surgery in India
Outrage over boy's attempt to gain spot in Guinness Book of World Records
Associated PressNEW DELHI - 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.
“We were shocked to see the recording,” Prasad told The Associated Press, adding that the IMA told Murugesan that his act was an ethical and legal violation.Murugesan owns and runs a maternity hospital in the city of Manaparai, Prasad said in a telephone interview from Manaparai. The family could not be immediately reached for comment.
Murugesan, who could possibly be prevented from practicing and face criminal charges for allowing his son to perform the operation, expressed no regret and accused the Manaparai medical association of being “jealous” of his son’s achievements, Prasad added.
“He said this was not the first surgery performed by his son and that he had been training him for the last three years,” said Prasad.
Murugesan told the medical association that he wanted to see his son’s name in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Prasad said that his team had reported the surgery to the state’s top medical association in state capital, Chennai.
State health secretary V.K. Subburaj told reporters Thursday that the government would investigate.
“We’ll get the report and then we’ll see whether there are any violations ... prima facie it looks like there is a big violation,” he said.
“We will definitely take action against the concerned medical officers.”
my comment:
1st thing that came to my mind when i read the title is like mayb this boy finish med sch at age 8 or something and is qualified to be surgeon by age 15... but oh my i was so wrong.....
actually when u come to think of it, it's totally possible. somemore he's under supervision by his parents. Surgery is not that big deal.... juz cuttin up, doin some maneuver and stitching up ( i make it sounds so simple huh :P) yes,u need expertise knowledge. but the action of doin the surgery is not that tough.... for eg. the boy is like a robot hand, and the parents are the brain behind the robot hand....u see wat i mean. the parents ask him to go right, he then go right.vice versa
but still, i very much pity the patient. i will be so freaking angry if i 'm the patient. and the parents are so blatant to allow their son to do this juz bcuz they want him to be in Guinness record. That makes me wonder are people with this kind of mentality fitted to be doctors in the first place....
do surgery to break record. how fast u can do surgery, how many surgery have u done blah blah blah.....and they transfer that viscious cycle to their son/daughter. -_-
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