A 15 yr old surgeon and his crazy parents

I thought fat farms in Africa, and women only beaches in Italy were rather interesting news items, until I read this article. Will miracles never cease? I guess not, as long as idiots like them exist in the world, we will always witness these 'miracles' of pure unadultered stupidity and mindless idiocy.

In this piece of very refreshing and mind-numbing lunacy, we find a 15 year old boy in Tamil Nadu, South India, performing a C-section under the very watchful eyes of his parents, who are both physicians (see image on the left). The reason for this bit of lunacy, well, which parent can resist the though that their son could possibly enter the Guiness Book of World Records.

Alas, the poor souls never imagined that they would end up in prison for such a noble thought. Idiots.

Another article, on the same issue, ends with a quote from a spokesperson at Guiness Records:

Guinness does not endorse such attempts because they encourage "bad medicine."

Finally, someone makes sense, in a remote indirect way, but this is better than letting a 15 year old practise C-sections on poor, unsuspecting women!

Oh, and for those anxious to know the fate of the baby (see the attached image of the mother Nyla, 27 with her child), apparently the child was born with a lump on the spinal cord, but the birth defect had nothing to do with the surgery.

Oh Joy!