“Horrific”: Brain Surgeon Arrested After Daughter, 12, Allegedly Drills A Hole In Patient’s Skull
A neurosurgeon has been arrested and is facing legal charges following what authorities described as “an incredible lack of respect” toward a patient during a critical surgery.
The trainee brain surgeon brought her 12-year-old daughter into the operating theater, where the minor child reportedly even participated in the procedure.
“They all need to be fired and banned from practicing medicine for at least 10 years. This is horrific,” wrote one outraged netizen.
The exact identity of the arrested neurosurgeon has not yet been released publicly
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The trainee had been assisting a senior physician and another doctor during brain surgery on a 33-year-old man who had suffered a traumatic brain injury.
The patient was rushed to Graz Regional Hospital in Austria on January 13, 2024, and required immediate surgery.
During the procedure, the trainee allegedly brought her pre-teen daughter into the operating room.
As the surgery neared completion, she reportedly handed her daughter the drill, allowing her to make a hole in the patient’s skull for the probe.
Image credits: Medical University of Graz (not the actual photo)
While the operation itself was completed successfully and without immediate issues, a series of anonymous complaints were filed with the public prosecutor’s office in April of the same year.
This prompted a formal investigation, leading to the neurosurgeon’s arrest and ongoing legal proceedings.
The unnamed trainee was assisting two other surgeons during an operation on a 33-year-old critically injured man
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The patient was notified by police authorities in July of last year that he was a witness in the investigation.
At the time, his lawyer, Peter Freiberger, told Kronen Zeitung, “You lie there. Unwilling, unconscious, and you become guinea pigs. There’s probably no other way to put it… There was no contact, no explanation or apology, nothing. That is simply undignified.”
Over a year later, on Tuesday, October 14, the neurosurgeon and one of the other doctors present in the operating room attended the Graz-East District Court for their trial.
According to prosecutor Julia Steiner, after allowing her daughter to drill the hole in the patient’s skull, the neurosurgeon allegedly proudly announced that her daughter had just had her first gynecological hysterectomy.
Image credits: Northwestern Medicine (not the actual photo)
A hysterectomy is a major surgical procedure that involves the removal of the uterus, and in some cases, the cervix, ovaries, and fallopian tubes, to treat conditions such as excessive bleeding, fibroids, endometriosis, or gynecological cancer.
As reported by Austrian news outlet Kurier, Julia highlighted that while there were no complications at the time, “the risk cannot be downplayed.”
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