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A surgeon has admitted to branding the livers of two patients using a beam of ionized argon gas:
Bramhall previously worked at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth hospital, where he gained fame for a dramatic liver transplant in 2010. Bramhall transplanted a liver following the fiery crash-landing of the plane that was transporting the donor liver to Birmingham. Though the pilots were injured, the liver was intact and salvaged from the burning wreckage. The transplant spared the life of Dr. Bramhall's desperately ill patient.
But in 2013, colleagues discovered that he had been initialing his patients' organs. Doctors first spotted the letters "SB" on the liver of one of Bramhall's transplant patients during a follow-up surgery. They later learned of initials on another patient. Bramhall was suspended in 2013 and resigned in 2014 amid an internal investigation into the etchings. Earlier this year, the General Medical Council issued Bramhall a formal warning, saying at the time that Bramhall's case "risks bringing the profession into disrepute, and it must not be repeated."
Bramhall etched his initials using an argon beam—a jet of ionized argon gas—which surgeons use to control bleeding during procedures. Doctors who are part of the investigation don't think the marks are harmful and expect them to clear up on their own.
Also at BBC and The Guardian.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Thursday December 14 2017, @01:55AM (8 children)
Really? First I've heard of this. Still, the executioner was responsible for watching the hotel doorsay. He shifted his aim to execute the poor rat executioner guy.
That whole video is a 5 minute sequence of fucked up. If that's the way they are trained then we are all in danger of our lives if we ever meet a cop in a non 75 in a 65 zone, and even then I give it a 50/50.
Why shouldn't we judge a book by it's cover? It's got the author, title, and a summary of what the book's about.
(Score: 2) by legont on Thursday December 14 2017, @02:13AM (7 children)
It was an air gun - pellets. He hunted birds inside Wallmart stores for living. He had a bag with two air rifles and a dead sparrow to brag about. Somebody saw him through 5th floor window and called.
The police "officer" was a young son of a 20 years on the job decorated detective. He was looking for a quick way to impress dad and everybody, I guess. Psycho he really is.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Thursday December 14 2017, @02:20AM (6 children)
I fail to see your point. He didn't have the air gun on him. He was begging for his life. Today was the first I heard the executioner wasn't the guy calling the shots.
IMHO, both the executioner and the shot caller should be in prison for more than a handful of years now. And the city should be sues for several decimal points if that is indeed the way they train their cops.
Why shouldn't we judge a book by it's cover? It's got the author, title, and a summary of what the book's about.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @03:18AM (2 children)
It's all about what the cops think they can get away with / what will happen to them if they machine gun a citizen. Each acquittal and weak prosecution will get them to push their limits further. There's already a shift from blowing away the poor, black, and hispanic to taking on targets from the middle class. If unchecked, eventually it will be judges, politicians, and prosecutors.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday December 14 2017, @05:08AM (1 child)
And that's why we're hearing about it now. It's taken white folks starting to suffer what every black man could have told you about 20, 40, 70, 100 years ago for this to reach the national conscience.
The longer I live the more I hate humanity in general.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @05:35AM
Except white men have also been regularly shot, if they were of the underclass, that is thought not to have family that can afford to or wants to press charges. Thexalon put it well in this posting [soylentnews.org].
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Thursday December 14 2017, @05:14AM (1 child)
You could hear it the murderers voice. He had a rage boner at the thought of getting to kill someone. He desperately wanted to kill that guy.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @10:40AM
Yes, you. Idiot. The murderer didn't say a word.
(Score: 2) by legont on Friday December 15 2017, @06:58PM
My point? He never was any danger and should not be harassed by police to begin with. It should be perfectly safe for anybody including children to play around with a pellet gun as it always was in the US just a few years back. I, for example, gave a 13 years old boy a birthday gift - pellet rifle - in Brooklyn in 1993.The level of paranoia in the modern US society is beyond comprehension. It's not going to end well.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.