The alleged victim is said to have first read about the case in the media - only to be told a few months later by police that it was him the teenage girl was said to have helped operate on.

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.

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

  • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    Those drills are designed to stop once they get past the hardness of the skull. That part is probably the safest thing the teen could have done. Still shouldn’t have been done because of all the cooties girls have but it’s not like anything was going to go wrong with this particular part of the operation.

    • Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Interesting to know. More interesting would be how and why a 13-year-old was allowed to scrub in and play any role at all in an emergency cranial surgery…