A man and his son are in a car crash. The father is killed and the child is taken to hospital gravely injured. When he gets there, the surgeon says, 'I can't operate on this boy - for he is my son!!!' How can this possibly be?

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The surgeon is the child's mother.
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She is his mother.
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Surgeon is the child's mother
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She is his mother
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His Mother
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Surgeon would be his mother.
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Surgeon is boy's mother.
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she was her mother
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The surgeon is the mother of the patient Rammohan
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Second option - doctor is a female .. doctor is mother of that boy.
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