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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday January 14 2018, @04:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the $2500-per-letter dept.

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


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  • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14 2018, @10:00PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14 2018, @10:00PM (#622291)

    If he was a jew then his actions would have earned him the Nobel prize. In other news,

    jewish dentist unnecessarily pulls out teeth for money [break.com]

    The jews think we are animals and can be used and abused and finally killed like animals. They call us goy.

    Branding someone's liver that caused no harm is not even an issue. He obviously takes pride in his work. It is like mechanics who write their name on car parts, or electronics engineers who etch their names on PCBs. Taking pride in your work is a good thing. It shows you are not a jew.

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  • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14 2018, @10:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14 2018, @10:14PM (#622297)

    Goy meat is not kosher. We are filthy animals to jews the chosen people of yhwh.