Going to the doctor is typically a fraught process. There's all the poking and prodding, the having to take off your clothes in front of a person you're pretty sure is being super judgy, and the fact that you might hear news you really don't want to hear.
When you up this to a surgeon visit, things can get outrightly dicey.
For the most part, surgeon visits are (hopefully) a good thing. You go in and get a procedure you need in order to ensure that your health continues, or at the very least, you can live as optimally as possible.
There's also all the patients who get sexually assaulted when they're under anesthesia. Worst of all (not that any of the prior stated things aren't already horrific) is anesthesia awareness. If you haven't heard of this before, it's pretty freaking awful (but thankfully very rare).
It's such a horrific trauma that those who experience it often get PTSD – dubbed anesthesia awareness-induced post traumatic stress disorder – and get flashbacks and nightmares of the moment. There's even a movie about it.
Earlier this month, however, news emerged that gave us yet another thing to worry about when going under the surgeon's knife.
An accomplished British surgeon, Dr. Simon Bramhall, 53, admits to branding initials on patients’ livers using an a… https://t.co/WPH9BD1dFo— Meru FM (@Meru FM)1513578024.0
In the aftermath, Bramhill resigned from his job due to "stress." He said he'd made "a mistake," and that he "had a disciplinary meeting on 15 May." Bramhill was not fired then, but stated, "I made the decision on 16 May I would hand in my notice. It is a bit raw and I have to move on."
A representative for the court said Bramhill was charged with "assault causing actual bodily harm but pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a lesser charge of assault by beating (beating here refers to the physical act of inscribing the livers, not actually beating the patients)."
That isn't all, however...
SB WUZ HERE: Surgeon pleads guilty to burning initials into patients’ organs Dr. Simon Bramhall admitted to using a… https://t.co/lkdGgFfXxL— iyouport (@iyouport)1513231022.0
As Tracy Scriven, one of his former patients stated to The Birmingham Mail in 2014, "Even if he did put his initials on a transplanted liver, is it really that bad? I wouldn’t have cared if he did it to me. The man saved my life."