I'm a bit of an autograph hound; I have signed baseballs and photos and other bits of memorabilia around because I am a sentimental soul, and looking back at a baseball where Brooks Robinson or Cal Ripken, Jr, signed their name for me brings back a wonderful flood of memories.
I have no such attachment to my liver, and I only use it for the standard blood-filtration purposes. I would have no interest in having it autographed. What am I, gonna pull it out and show it around?
But there's this English dude - former Dr Simon Bramhall - who admitted using an argon beam machine - a teeny sort of gas torch - to autograph patients' organs with his initials while practicing surgery at Birmingham, England's Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Perhaps he needed more practice time.
England's Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service called this "an act borne out of a degree of professional arrogance" and said said his actions "undermined" public trust in the medical profession.
On Monday, after several years of suspensions, Bramhall was struck off the list of physicians allowed to practice.
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| Former Dr Bramhall really looks like a character in a Ricky Gervais show |
It was the decision of that MPTS board that Bramhall's actions "breached" the trust between patient and doctor, and he was shown the door.
Yes, it's true, the tribunal "accepted that no lasting physical damage was caused to either patient," but Bramhall's actions had left one of them with "significant emotional harm," knowing he carried his initials around on a vital organ. They called the whole thing a "gross violation of his patients' dignity and autonomy".
The whole thing came up during a routine checkup when initial reports said his...initials...were tatted inside his patients.
Initial reports, get it?
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