US EditionGraz: Twelve-Year-Old as "Helper" at Skull-Op - Acquittal for Doctors
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A twelve-year-old doctor's daughter is said to have assisted in an emergency surgery. In Austria, however, there were now two acquittals – even if the judge herself says: "There are many things that I – let alone say – feel like madness.
The Graz District Court today acquitted a neurosurgeon and her colleague who were accused of allowing her then 12-year-old daughter to assist during emergency brain surgery.
Her twelve-year-old daughter is said to have drilled the skull – that's why an upper doctor was on trial in Graz. Now the trial ended with acquittal. The patient also testified.
A minor is said to have helped her mother in an emergency surgery and even drilled a hole in the patient's skull. This cannot be proven, a court in Austria ruled.
In an emergency surgery, a twelve-year-old girl is said to have not only been present, but to have worked herself. In a trial in Austria, everything revolves around whether the child has operated on her own hands. In the end, the judge frees two doctors.
der Standard AT
der Standard DEA neurosurgeon took her daughter to an operation in January 2024, where the 12-year-old was said to have drilled a hole.
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