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Austrian surgeon 'let teenage daughter drill hole in patient's skull' (news.sky.com)

submitted 3 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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An Austrian surgeon allegedly let his teenage daughter drill a hole in a patient's skull.

Following a forestry accident in January, a 33-year-old man was flown by air ambulance to Graz University Hospital, Styria, southeastern Austria, with serious head injuries, according to Kronen Zeitung, an Austrian newspaper.

He needed emergency surgery, but the doctor allegedly let his 13-year-old daughter take part in operating on him.

The newspaper reported that she even drilled a hole in the patient's skull.

While the operation was said to have gone off without issue, the patient is still unable to work and investigations by the Graz public prosecutor's officer against the entire surgical team are continuing.

It wasn't until April that an anonymous complaint was logged to the public prosecutor's office about the allegations, the newspaper reported.

The alleged victim initially learned about the case in the media before later being told by authorities he was a witness in an investigation.

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[+] Cethin@lemmy.zip -11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It said "the operation was said to have gone off without issue, the patient is still unable to work". Who is saying it didn't have issues though? If the patient still isn't able to work, it sounds potentially like there may have potentially been issues. It may have actually not had issues, but I'm not taking the surgeon or hospital's word for it, assuming it is them who said this.

[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

With a serious head injury you ain't going back to work in the morning. Not defending the surgeon, but the guy probably might never work again because of the injury. Hell, his whole personality might be changed because of it. And there is no way to know how the operation might have turned out or not.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

Oh, for sure. It doesn't say how long it's been though. I'm just saying don't take the word if a person who hid the fact they had a child drill into someone's skull. There's really no way to know how it went.