Ms. Doogie Howser – The Weird Side of the Internet

Ms. Doogie Howser – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

One of the scary things about surgery, apart from the maybe dying thing, is that you’re out, and you’re trusting your life to a bunch of surgeons and nurses you don’t know. They could screw up, sure, but they could also draw a penis on your face or heat a pastrami on rye over your open chest cavity. I’m not saying this has ever been done, but you wouldn’t know so long as they wiped the penis off.

So Graz, Austria. Man goes in for surgery from head trauma. And the neurosurgeon allows her student to drill the initial hole. But her student isn’t really her student – it’s her 13 year-old daughter.

Now the guy was okay, and he was none the wiser. Nobody outside the operating room know what had happened. But of course someone in the operating room that day must have gotten pissed later, because a complaint went out. And now the guy’s suing.

“You lie there, unwilling, unconscious, and become a guinea pig. There’s probably no other way to put it… that’s not possible. You can’t do that,” Peter Freiberger, the man’s lawyer said. “There has been no contact, no explanation or apology, nothing. That is simply undignified.”

On the “that was messed up and disrespectful” scale, that’s money in the bank. But he’s claiming that he can’t work, even though the surgery was successful. So my question, is he unable to work because a 13 year old girl drilled into his head and he’s too embarrassed to work? Or is he just recovering from an ordinary operation, and it’s completely normal to be unable to work?

I will conclude by saing it was probably cool for the 13 year-old girl to drill into someone’s head. Maybe it was practice for building custom furniture, who knows?

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