In a revolting incidence, a surgeon was fined £10,000 for burning HIS INITIALS on the livers of two patients during transplant surgery. The arrogant surgeon boasted to a colleague: “This is what I do” as he burned his initials ‘SB’ on to an unconscious patient’s newly-transplanted liver. The doctor’s actions were only discovered after another surgeon spotted the initials during follow-up surgery on one of his patients. He used an argon beam, which used to stop livers bleeding during operations and to highlight an area to be worked on, to sign his initials “SB” on his patient’s livers.
The marks left by argon do not impair the liver’s function and disappear by themselves. A photograph of the 4 CM-HIGH branding was taken on a mobile phone. A nurse had asked what the marks were, to which the surgeon allegedly replied: “I do this.” The surgeon later told police he had made the mark within a…
