"When doctors at the meeting in Manapparai expressed outrage, the boy’s father, general surgeon K Murugesan, reportedly claimed he had not done anything illegal.
The Hindustan Times reported him as saying: “If a 10-year-old [in India] can drive a car and a 15-year-old can become a doctor in the US, what is wrong if my son, though not qualified, performs a surgery?”
In a separate interview with the doctor in the Tamil Kumudam Reporter, he was quoted as saying his son had done similar operations before."
What the heck, it wasn’t brain surgery.
Wonder what the Guinness record is for that? :eek:
Umm, did a 15-year-old actually become a doctor in the US? I’d be very suprised. Do these people actually think “Doogie Howser, M.D.” was a historical document?
It seems that the youngest man to become a doctor in Canada, Paras Naik, was 22.
Yeah. I’m pretty sure I could do an appendectomy with a qualified, experienced surgeon on hand telling me exactly what to do, but if I’m ever in that situation and the surgeon has two working hands, I’m handing him the scalpel and going off for a drink.
Non-doctors with limited training have done surgery successfully under less than ideal conditions (for instance, emergency appendectomies on submarines during the Second World War), and trainees accomplish procedures under expert supervision.
But in this case if something went wrong and a non-qualified teenager panicked*, how long would it take the proud daddy to drop the videocamera and get scrubbed in to help? There were two patient lives at stake here.
What a numbskull.
*or had to text message his buddies.
We’ve been saving a fortune on dentist bills in our family ever since I brought my five year old a Dremel and a soldering Iron. For the pain we just think about how much we’re actually saving.
