A mother and father in Manaparai town of Trichy simply doted on their son. Their son was unique, talented, headed for a brilliant future, thought they. Like a great many other parents who dote on their offspring too. No harm in thinking so. Especially not when the parents are both highly educated, professionally qualified doctors who CAN do loads for their son.

But the harm was in that they went a bit too far. They allowed their 15 year old son to perform a caesarean operation on a 20 yr old pregnant girl, supervised by them. I was zapped to read of this in the papers! And not only do they do this, they go ahead and trumpet it. And when a shocked IMA, on viewing the cd of the said operation, pulled up the doctor parents, the proud father is said to have opined that if a 10 year old could drive a car and a 15 yr old could become a doctor in the US, what was wrong if his son (though not qualified!) performs a surgery. 

What is WRONG? What is right, for heaven's sake? I mean, I am simply amazed at two doctors committing this bit of crazy, absolutely irresponsible, dangerous bit of tomfoolery. Did the poor girl know that she was going to be operated upon by a 15 yr old boy, and unqualified at that? What if there had been complications? What if the baby died? Or worse (shudder) developed other complications that might have left it scarred for life? Would the doting parents have claimed it proudly as a mark of their son's learning experience like I would my son's first experiences at drawing, and treasure it? Or would they have just turned a blind eye to it and marked it down to the unfortunate girl's/baby's fate? No two guesses here.

Thankfully, I think (I certainly hope so) that the mother and child are fine. The idiot doctors would not have gone to the IMA with their cd if there had been any problems with the mother or child.  The video recording of the procedure was the ultimate! I mean- you have to give it to those doctors for being dumb. Not only do they go against the law, but they themselves provide proof too! The cd of course would have been destroyed by now. And the doctors now claim that their son only looked on, while they performed the actual operation. But the deed has been done and the world has come to know. And far from their son getting into the Guinness Book, the two doctors might end up being debarred from their profession.

I feel sorry for that poor 15 yr old kid. He probably has had to cope with over-ambitious parents all his young life. He's probably been MADE to play with a steth and all those other instruments.And probably this may not be the first time he has entered the OT and watched/helped out in numerous procedures, what with a general surgeon Dad, and an obstetrician Mom. But the last toy his parents gave him to 'operate' was a 20 yr old woman and her baby. A little too dangerous, surely? And now he has to face the music too, along with his parents. Not very pleasant music at that, for a 15 year old boy.

(I may be wrong in this, and the parents may have just encouraged their son's genuine interest. But they should have at least enrolled him in medical school before letting him into the theatre, let alone allowing him to perform a serious bit of surgery..)

God help over-ambitious parents and their children.!