UK Doctor Banned From Medicine After Branding His Initials On Two Patients' Livers During Surgery
12.01.2022 - 22:49
/ perezhilton.com
A medical governing board in the United Kingdom has revoked a doctor’s credentials from the country’s medical rolls after it was determined in a tribunal that he carved his initials into two patients’ livers during transplant surgeries.
Simon Bramhall was performing organ transplant surgery on two different patients in two incidents nearly a decade ago when he reportedly carved his initials into both of their livers at the end of their operations. The two separate horrific incidents reportedly occurred in February 2013 and August 2013.
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According to BBC News, the 1.6-inch tall initials were discovered by another doctor who was performing surgery on one of the patients in the weeks after the initial incident when another transplanted organ had failed. The discovery led to an investigation into Bramhall’s actions, with the U.K.’s Medical Practice Tribunal Service reviewing the now-former doctor’s work across his entire career.
Initially, Bramhall resigned from his surgery job at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the city of Birmingham back in 2014. Three years later, in 2017, the MPTS came forth with their determination after the disgraced doc pleaded guilty to two counts of common assault in the case.
At the time, according to MPTS documents, Bramhall admitted that he “foolishly made a mark on the adjacent liver” and acknowledged that his actions in those two surgeries “were stupid and entirely wrong.” The MPTS, which exists to adjudicate malpractice complaints against doctors in the country, punished him with a £10,000 fine and a community service decree.
The organization invited the doctor to have his case reviewed three years later, in December of
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