Collarspace Discussion Forums


Home  Login  Search 

15 year old performs c-section


View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
 
All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> 15 year old performs c-section Page: [1]
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
15 year old performs c-section - 6/26/2007 3:17:17 AM   
Level


Posts: 25145
Joined: 3/3/2006
Status: offline 		NEW DELHI - Police have questioned the parents — both doctors — of a 15-year-old boy who allegedly carried out a Caesarean section birth under their watch in southern India, a government official said Monday.

An Indian Medical Association chapter in the southern state of Tamil Nadu said last week that Dr. K. Murugesan showed them a video recording of his son, Dhileepan Raj, performing a Caesarean section in an apparent bid to gain a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest surgeon.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19415576

_____________________________

Fake the heat and scratch the itch
Skinned up knees and salty lips
Let go it's harder holding on
One more trip and I'll be gone

~~ Stone Temple Pilots
Profile   Post #: 1
RE: 15 year old performs c-section - 6/26/2007 3:32:13 AM   
Vendaval


Posts: 10297
Joined: 1/15/2005
Status: offline 		I hope this incident did not actually take place.  And if it did,
the parents should be prosecuted and stripped of their medical licences.

_____________________________

"Beware, the woods at night, beware the lunar light.
So in this gray haze we'll be meating again, and on that
great day, I will tease you all the same."
"WOLF MOON", OCTOBER RUST, TYPE O NEGATIVE


http://KinkMeet.co.uk

(in reply to Level)
Profile   Post #: 2
RE: 15 year old performs c-section - 6/26/2007 4:31:54 AM   
litleone8620


Posts: 3669
Joined: 6/12/2006
Status: offline 		It did take place.

There was an article about it in our local paper.  I was surprised that the woman that the C-section was performed on agreed to it. Though I suppose she wasn't exactly in the best of decision making mentalities.


_____________________________

He who laughs last didn't get the joke


We have enough youth. How about a fountain of smart?

(in reply to Vendaval)
Profile   Post #: 3
RE: 15 year old performs c-section - 6/26/2007 8:54:42 AM   
lighthearted


Posts: 1165
Joined: 11/26/2006
Status: offline 		I was shocked that someone agreed to it, tho the smackdown came when Guinness refused to consider it for the book, saying they didn't want to promote that kind of behaviour.

it was very irresponsible of the father, I agree, but then again, I'm not famliar with Indian culture, I don't know if it caused as much outrage there as it did here.

_____________________________

"Thou art to me a delicious torment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

(in reply to litleone8620)
Profile   Post #: 4
RE: 15 year old performs c-section - 6/26/2007 9:15:01 AM   
HeavansKeeper


Posts: 1254
Joined: 5/14/2007
Status: offline 		Although I would disagree with this as a general practice, there are places in the world where a doctor's 15 year old son is better than nothing.  This doesn't fall under that circumstance, though...

Besides, look at that tie.  The boy is clearly a stand-up gent.

< Message edited by HeavansKeeper -- 6/26/2007 9:16:35 AM >

_____________________________

The Loving Owner of HisHeavan

... You've waited your whole life for this moment...

(in reply to lighthearted)
Profile   Post #: 5
RE: 15 year old performs c-section - 6/26/2007 10:42:28 AM   
NakedOnMyChain


Posts: 2431
Joined: 11/29/2004
From: Indiana
Status: offline 		Utterly frightening.

_____________________________

"Oh, it's torture, but I'm almost there."
~The Cure

"I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave."
~The Labyrinth

(in reply to Level)
Profile   Post #: 6
RE: 15 year old performs c-section - 6/26/2007 12:33:03 PM   
OrangeJulius


Posts: 122
Joined: 5/24/2007
Status: offline 		And now he's running from the police. I wonder how far he's going to get?

(in reply to NakedOnMyChain)
Profile   Post #: 7
RE: 15 year old performs c-section - 6/26/2007 12:36:58 PM   
Real0ne


Posts: 21189
Joined: 10/25/2004
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Vendaval

I hope this incident did not actually take place.  And if it did, the parents should be prosecuted and stripped of their medical licences.


Not sure if i agree.

i have been driving since i was 5, same age using a 22 caliber rifle for plinking, sewed up my own finger around 7-8ish  and other stuff :)


_____________________________

"We the Borg" of the us imperialists....resistance is futile

Democracy; The 'People' voted on 'which' amendment?

Yesterdays tinfoil is today's reality!

"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session

(in reply to Vendaval)
Profile   Post #: 8
RE: 15 year old performs c-section - 6/26/2007 12:40:36 PM   
Casie


Posts: 450
Joined: 1/5/2006
Status: offline 		 While I do believe his parents acted reclessly, If the women entered into the agreement without coercion and was fully informed of the risk I have no problem. 

(in reply to OrangeJulius)
Profile   Post #: 9
RE: 15 year old performs c-section - 6/26/2007 12:50:14 PM   
nyrisa


Posts: 1830
Joined: 11/20/2006
Status: offline 		It happens more than you know, even in the US. Some years ago, while taking a surgical nurse's certification course, the instructor told of a surgeon allowing his 14 year old son to make a few of the stitches during the closing of the incision. There has been more than one case of doctor's kids allowed to watch births as "sex ed". It was all seen as sort of "taking your child to work" by the doctors.

Now that there is so much more supervision by administration, and liability consciousness, I'd be surprised to find it happening in a large hospital. But tiny hospitals with the one or two surgeons available having more power, it probably still happens. Doctors have a lot more leeway in small and remote communities.

_____________________________

A true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires. Robert Heinlein

The last thing I want to do is hurt you...but it is still on my list.

(in reply to Level)
Profile   Post #: 10
RE: 15 year old performs c-section - 6/26/2007 1:38:51 PM   
OrangeJulius


Posts: 122
Joined: 5/24/2007
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Real0ne

quote:

ORIGINAL: Vendaval

I hope this incident did not actually take place.  And if it did, the parents should be prosecuted and stripped of their medical licences.


Not sure if i agree.

i have been driving since i was 5, same age using a 22 caliber rifle for plinking, sewed up my own finger around 7-8ish  and other stuff :)



But that was all pertaining to you. If you decided to amputate your legs for fun and screwed up and died, it would be your fault, and your problem. If this kid screwed up and killed the baby, others would be negitavely impacted.

(in reply to Real0ne)
Profile   Post #: 11
RE: 15 year old performs c-section - 6/26/2007 2:32:02 PM   
popeye1250


Posts: 18104
Joined: 1/27/2006
From: New Hampshire
Status: offline 		Beats the hell out of "Midnight Basketball."

_____________________________

"But Your Honor, this is not a Jury of my Peers, these people are all decent, honest, law-abiding citizens!"

(in reply to Level)
Profile   Post #: 12
RE: 15 year old performs c-section - 6/26/2007 3:55:37 PM   
instynctive


Posts: 2726
Status: offline 		I used to run EMS at the "basic" level, but on several different occasions the Paramedic I was riding with had me performing paramedic-level treatments.  Granted I did not make any decisions, but was their second set of hands on a bad trauma or cardiac patient.  Why?  Because I'm pretty cool under pressure, not an idiot and knew where everything was on the back of the bus. :-)  And the Medic trusted that I would do what they wanted me to do when they wanted me to do it, no questions asked... until after the call.

I was fortunate.. 10 years and I batted 1.000... Every moving patient I picked up was still moving (more or less) when they got signed over to the ER staff.

(in reply to popeye1250)
Profile   Post #: 13
RE: 15 year old performs c-section - 6/26/2007 4:20:32 PM   
Sinergy


Posts: 9383
Joined: 4/26/2004
Status: offline 		 
There are places in the world, and situations, where access to qualified medical care is limited or non-existent.

These are two trained surgeons overseeing their child performing a surgery.  While it might have been spun as an attempt to get into the Guinness Book Of World Records, it sounds like they are fully qualified at overseeing a surgery.

Read or see the movie "The Cider House Rules," which gives an example where this exact situation (a teenager learning medicine) was performed.  As the movie points out, sometimes there are situations where doing the right thing trumps one's own personal opinions and legal requirements.

Sinergy

_____________________________

"There is a fine line between clever and stupid"
David St. Hubbins "This Is Spinal Tap"

"Every so often you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You cant do that, it is gone, gone forever." J. Danforth Quayle


(in reply to Casie)
Profile   Post #: 14
Page:   [1]
All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> 15 year old performs c-section Page: [1]
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts




Collarchat.com © 2025
Terms of Service Privacy Policy Spam Policy

0.063