New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- An Austrian brain surgeon is facing trial after allegedly allowing her 12-year-old daughter to drill a hole in a patient's skull during surgery. The incident reportedly took place in January 2024 at the Graz Regional Hospital, Austria. According to a report by Kurier, the 33-year-old patient, a farm worker, was admitted with a traumatic brain injury following a serious accident. During the operation, the surgeon, accompanied by a neurosurgeon in training, allegedly invited her daughter into the operating theatre and let her drill a hole for a medical probe once the procedure was nearly finished.

The doctor reportedly told nurses afterward that her daughter had "just completed her first gynecological hysterectomy," a...