The Knucklehead of the Day award

Today's winner is Dr. K. Murugesan of Manaparai India. He gets the award for the following.

NEW DELHI — The 15-year-old son of two doctors performed a filmed cesarean section birth under his parents' watch in southern India in an apparent bid to gain a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest surgeon.

Instead, the boy's father could be stripped of his licences and may face criminal charges, officials said Thursday.

Dr. K. Murugesan showed a recording of his son performing a cesarean section to an Indian Medical Association chapter in the southern state of Tamil Nadu last month, said Dr. Venkatesh Prasad, secretary of the association. The video showed Dr. Murugesan anesthetizing the patient.

“We were shocked to see the recording,” Dr. Prasad told The Associated Press, adding that the IMA told Dr. Murugesan that his act was an ethical and legal violation.

Dr. Murugesan owns and runs a maternity hospital in the city of Manaparai, Dr. Prasad said in a telephone interview from Manaparai. The family could not be immediately reached for comment.

Dr. Murugesan, who could possibly be prevented from practising and face criminal charges for allowing his son to perform the operation, expressed no regret and accused the Manaparai medical association of being “jealous” of his son's achievements, Dr. Prasad added.

“He said this was not the first surgery performed by his son and that he had been training him for the last three years,” said Dr. Prasad.

Dr. Murugesan told the medical association that he wanted to see his son's name in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Dr. Prasad said that his team had reported the surgery to the state's top medical association in state capital, Chennai.

State health secretary V.K. Subburaj told reporters Thursday that the government would investigate.

Murugesan should lose his license for what he did. Getting a Guiness world record by endangering someone's life is an act of incredible stupidity. Anyone remember the Aeroflot 593 plane crash that happened after one of the flight crew allowed their children to use the plane's controls? There are activities that children aren't meant to do and A. Murugesan should have known better and therefore he is today's Knucklehead of the Day.

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