The surgeon who admitted to burning his initials into the livers of two patients has been sentenced:
A surgeon who burned his initials on to the livers of two patients during transplant surgery has been given a 12-month community order and fined £10,000.
Simon Bramhall, 53, used an argon beam – used to stop livers bleeding during operations and to highlight an area to be worked on – to sign "SB" into his patient's livers. The marks left by argon do not impair the liver's function and disappear by themselves.
In December, the liver, spleen and pancreas surgeon admitted two counts of assault by beating. The offences relate to the incidents on 9 February and 21 August 2013. Prosecutors accepted his not guilty pleas to the more serious charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
[...] Bramhall tendered his resignation the following summer amid an internal disciplinary investigation into his conduct. Speaking to the press at the time, he said marking his initials on to his patients' livers had been a mistake. He now works for the NHS in Herefordshire.
More like assault by beaming.
Also at NPR.
Previously: Surgeon Branded Initials Into Patients' Livers With Argon Beam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14 2018, @05:54PM
this type of behavior is how hh holmes started, i'm sure. anything intentional by a dr shoulkd be severly punished. just like any other position where people have to give them the benefit of the doubt in life or death situations to get "service". like cops.