Surgeon allowed her 12-year-old daughter to enter surgery and drill holes in a patient's head

More than a year ago, a surgeon at the Regional Hospital of Graz, Austria, allowed her 12-year-old daughter to enter a surgical procedure and drill into a patient's head.

Although the incident initially seemed to have gone unnoticed, the medical center's management recently discovered the details of the situation and reported the woman, whose identity remains unknown.

According to the Kronen Zeitung newspaper, the surgeon took the minor to the operating room, where she explained how the drill worked and let her drill into the skull of a man who had been admitted to the emergency room.

For her part, the prosecutor in the case, Julia Steiner, asserted that the doctor is not the only one implicated, as another doctor was apparently involved in the incident for having adjusted the speed of the tool while the girl manipulated it without assistance.

During the trial, the surgeon claimed that allowing her daughter into the facility to participate in the procedure “was a moral and ethical mistake,” but that she only realized the severity of the mistake later.

According to defense attorney Bernhard Lehofer, the defendant has been complaining about what happened for about two years, and although the surgery was a success, he admits that it was not a good idea to let the minor handle the drill.

Despite this, the professional cited the woman's track record and argued that she "has saved the lives of countless people over the past 20 years," so he considered the charges against her to be exaggerated.

Authorities revealed that during the operation, the minor's mother celebrated her daughter's actions , which angered the operating room staff and was the reason the management found out.

"Something like this simply cannot be minimized. What would have happened if the felling had been faulty and hadn't stopped automatically after piercing the skull bone?" the prosecutor in charge said.

"It was incredibly disrespectful to the patient and to her own colleagues!" Steiner added. The surgeon is currently facing legal proceedings for medical negligence and endangering her patient's life.

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