LATERAL THINKING!!!

A man and his son are in a car accident. The father dies on the scene, but the child is rushed to the hospital. When he arrives the surgeon says "I can't operate on this boy, he is my son!" How can this be?
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try hard
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think man
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The surgeon is the boy's mother..