Surgeon pleads guilty to branding initials on patient livers

[Starman]

https://gizmodo.com/the-doctor-who-branded-a-patients-liver-with-his-initia-1821304653

Following an internal investigation...

Some people commemorate time spent together by etching their names onto an old tree or desk; others might get matching tattoos; and some just send a card. None of these gestures of love and camaraderie were enough for British surgeon Simon Bramhall, who burned his initials into at least two of his patients’ livers.

Another doctor stumbled across Bramhall’s handiwork while performing follow-up surgery on one of the transplant patients in 2013, and he reported it to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital where Bramhall worked, which then suspended him, according to the Washington Post. Although Bramhall was briefly reinstated in April 2014, he decided to voluntarily resign a month later in the midst of an ongoing investigation by the hospital.

 

[Bird Dog]

https://gizmodo.com/the-doctor-who-branded-a-patients-liver-with-his-initia-1821304653

Following an internal investigation...

Are you trying to take away Misfit's job?????

 

[Lurk]

What harm, exactly, did this branding cause?

 

[Hijinx]

What harm, exactly, did this branding cause?

That's my question. Did it do any harm?

 

[Tech]

New fad, internal tattoo.

 

[vraiblonde]

Following an internal investigation...

What harm, exactly, did this branding cause?

That was my first reaction - so what?

 

[Lurk]

That was my first reaction - so what?

I imagine this happens in one way or another a lot more commonly than expected. Surgeons are such show offs.

 

[Hijinx]

I like the idea that a surgeon is signing his work.
It shows confidence.

Matter of fact it might not be a bad idea that they all sign their work.

 

[Lurk]

I like the idea that a surgeon is signing his work.
It shows confidence.

Matter of fact it might not be a bad idea that they all sign their work.

I could see a plastic guy signing a boob job, but a face lift?

 

[vraiblonde]

I could see a plastic guy signing a boob job, but a face lift?

I don't really want some doctor signing my boobs, but if he wants to sign some organ that neither I nor anyone else will see, so what?