Surgeon who burned initials into livers of two patients fined £10,000

Simon Bramhall ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work after admitting assault offences relating to transplant surgeries A surgeon who burned his initials on to the livers of two patients during transplant surgery has been given a 12-month community order and fined £10,000. Simon Bramhall, 53, used an argon beam - used to stop livers bleeding during operations and to highlight an area to be worked on - to sign "SB" into his patient's livers. The marks left by argon do not impair the liver...