Surgeon writes his initials of the patients’ liver during the transplant.

Surgeon writes his initials on patients’ liver during transplants

A British surgeon on Wednesday admitted branding his initials on the livers of two patients undergoing transplants at a hospital while his colleagues looked on.

Simon Bramhall, 53, pleaded guilty to assault but not guilty to charges of assault causing actual bodily harm. The case was “without legal precedent in criminal law,” prosecutor Tony Badenoch said of the offences that occurred at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

It was “not an isolated incident but rather a repeated act on two occasions, requiring some skill and concentration… done in the presence of colleagues,” he said, calling it a “highly unusual and complex” case.