[NRSKarenRN]

Found at Comcast.com:

training son for THREE YEARS to perform surgery!!!! Think surgeon Dad must have failed ethics class.... lets all skip medical and nursing school and go back to apprenticeship training. Karen

15-Year-Old Performs Surgery in India
By MUNEEZA NAQVI, Associated Press Writer

NEW 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 ....

[happybunny1970]

Holy cow... (pun intended)... that's nuts.

SURE, many people could do the actual surgical part AS LONG AS THERE WERE NO COMPLICATIONS, but without the appropriate background and education, where do you go from there?

And WHAT KIND OF IDIOT thinks they can do this (train their son), and VIDEO it, for crying out loud, for publication in a global trivia book, AND NOT HAVE REPERCUSSIONS TO THEIR PROFESSIONAL LICENSE?

I wonder if the patient had any idea...

[Jessy_RN]

All I can say is I am wowed and apaulled!

[GilaRN]

People have been trying to replace nurses with less educated providers for years. It only makes sense to start targeting physicians.

[prmenrs]

Think dad must have failed more than ethics class! IQ test comes to mind...

[BULLYDAWGRN]

Hmmm, 15yo trying to act like a doc in India. Well we have doctors trying to act like 15 yo here in Mississippi, is'nt that ironic...

[rnmomtobe2010]

I am speechless.

[PeachPie]

Originally Posted by BULLYDAWGRN

Hmmm, 15yo trying to act like a doc in India. Well we have doctors trying to act like 15 yo here in Mississippi, is'nt that ironic...

ROFL!

This doc is a total dumb-butt.

[snowfreeze]

Hummm, welcome to the world.

[kiyatylese]

I think this is the kid that was on Oprah. She was very impressed about the fact that he performs surgeries in his village. The kid said that without him the people would be dead, he was so proud. I think that's sick.