REPORT: Doctor Arrested For Allegedly Letting 12-Year-Old Daughter Help With Brain Surgery

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In Graz, a neurosurgeon is on trial because her twelve-year-old daughter is said to have drilled a patient's skull in an emergency operation. The mother denies this – but also speaks of "absolute mother pride". The verdict is still pending.

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After a forest accident, a seriously injured patient has to be emergency operated on the head. Did the two surgeons give their twelve-year-old daughter the drill?

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Two former surgeons are on trial in Graz, Austria. They are accused of allowing a 12-year-old girl to assist in an emergency operation. The girl allegedly used a drill to make a hole in a patient's skull.

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A neurosurgeon is said to have allowed her twelve-year-old daughter to drill a hole in a patient's skull during a brain surgery.

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According to the charges, the twelve-year-old has drilled a hole in the patient's skull for a probe. The accused mother of the girl, a neurosurgeon, denies this. The trial in Graz was postponed.