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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, @09:38PM
"My arse is not a canvas! My bottom is not a kissing post, sir. Okay, you can dress this up however you like, with your fancy words, but the truth remains that man, sitting there, kissed me on my bike rack and I was not expecting it and it rendered an expensive massage worthless. And I am here today so that no man need be kissed on his sweetmeats by this man ever again, unless they have arranged it beforehand for some reason. I will not be silent! I will never be silent! I will not stop until those lips are behind bars! How dare you? I trusted you. My trouser hams are not for sale, sir! I put my arse in your hands."