Simon Bramhall.Photo: PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
A British transplant surgeon who had admitted to branding his initials on the livers of two patients during surgery haslost his medical license.
Simon Bramhall, 57, had used an electric beam to burn “SB” into one patient in February 2013, and a second that August, unbeknownst to either of them,theGuardianreported. But when one of the patients needed a follow-up surgery because the organ failed a week later, another surgeon discovered Bramhall’s initials.
Bramhall, a liver, spleen and pancreas surgeon atQueen ElizabethHospital in Birmingham, was suspended after the other surgeon found his initials in 2013 and placed under investigation. He resigned in May 2014 andtold the BBChe had made “a mistake.”
Simon Bramhall.PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
Bramhall had told police that he decided to brand the patients to relieve pressure during the long operations.
“What you did was an abuse of power and a betrayal of trust that these patients had invested in you,” the judge said, according tothe BBC.
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In 2018, he was fined 10,000 pounds and ordered to complete 12 months of community service. Bramhall was suspended from practicing medicine for at least five months in Dec. 2020, and on Monday the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) decided to terminate his license.
In their decision, the MPTS said that Bramhall’s actions were “borne out of a degree of professional arrogance” and “undermined” people’s trust in the medical system.
source: people.com
