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.

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.

  • Hawk@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    183·
    4 months ago

    Whilst this is absolutely true, I think it’s more constructive to focus on the failure in design that led to the confusion in the cockpit.

    There is no doubt that children in the cockpit contributed to the incident, but that incident could have happened with some other distraction.

    The failure for the aircraft to correctly notify the pilot of the change in autopilot configuration was clearly very dangerous.

    • anton2492@lemmy.nzEnglish
      71·
      4 months ago

      Agreed. “Mistakes were made - but let’s blame the dumb dad who had his moron 15-year-old progeny bump the autopilot into total submission.” smh