British doctor who wrote his initials on patients’ livers faces fresh tribunal

Mostafa Al Zoubi, Gulf Today

British doctor, Simon Bramhall confessed to writing his initials on the livers of two patients during surgery in 2013 while he worked for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

The doctor was suspended for five months, and fined £10,000 fine after being found guilty.

Bramhall used an argon beam machine after the surgery to write his initials.

The incident was discovered when one of the two patients underwent another liver surgery by another surgeon, who saw the letters on the liver, photographed it and informed the medical director in charge.

A High Court judge has ruled in favour of a fresh medical tribunal into the case of the surgeon who burned his initials on the livers of two unconscious patients.

Justice Collins Rice said the previous tribunal – which took place last year – did not “put its finger on precisely what was and was not wrong” with Bramhall’s conduct.

Speaking to the media after his suspension he admitted he had made “a mistake”.