A UK doctor has been excluded from the country’s medical record for marking patients’ livers with his initials. The incidents took place between February and August 2013, when Simon Bramhall used a surgical device to write his initials on transplanted livers at the end of two surgeries.
The 1.6-inch initials were discovered by another doctor when an organ transplanted by Bramhall failed after about a week, according to BBC News.
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In 2017, Bramhall pleaded guilty and was convicted of two counts of common assault, according to documents from the UK Medical Practice Court Service, known as MPTS, which listens to complaints against doctors and determines whether they are fit to practice. He was fined £10,000 and sentenced to community service.
Bramhall resigned from his job at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital in 2014 and was suspended for at least five months in December 2020, according to BBC News.
However, the MPTS invited Bramhall to have his case reviewed in December 2020. The service reviewed evidence in the case, including statements by Bramhall, in which he claimed he “made a mark on the adjacent liver” and admitted that his actions in 2013 “were stupid and totally wrong,” according to the MPTS documents.
Bramhall’s attorney argued that “the former doctor’s fitness to practice was no longer impaired” and “that this case was never about his surgical skills, but rather about Mr. Bramhall’s lack of respect for the dignity of patients.”
The MPTS “was convinced that there is no discernible risk of a repetition” of the incident and said that Bramhall’s fitness for the practice “is no longer impaired by reason of conviction”. The order suspending him from the practice was revoked.
However, the case was referred back to the MPTS, and during a hearing this week, the service said it “accepted that no lasting physical harm was done to any of the patients” but that Bramhall’s actions caused one of them “significant emotional harm.” ,” according to the BBC.
Although they said that Bramhall was of “previous good character”, removing him from the medical record was the appropriate punishment, and while he provided life-saving care, he was still in “grave violation of the dignity and autonomy of his patients”.
After the hearing, a immediate suspension was put in place , but Bramhall has a 28-day appeal period.
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