Dr.\u00a0Simon Bramhall, a British surgeon who branded his initials on patients’ livers, has been struck off the medical register as of Monday
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- (Dec. 13) APDr. Simon Bramhall, a British surgeon who branded his initials on patients’ livers, has been struck off the medical register as of Monday, according to a report by BBC News.
- According to the U.K. General Medical Council, that means he can no longer work as a doctor in the U.K.
- The branded initials were only discovered when an organ transplant failed and another doctor was performing a surgery on the patient, according to BBC News.
- Bramhall had received a series of titles and honors over the years, according to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal.
- The Medical Practitioners Tribunal decided to suspend his license for five months in December 2020, citing “professional arrogance of such magnitude that it strayed into criminal behaviour.”