Today's post actually happened in 2013 when a liver transplant surgeon was found to be initialing his work. He would sign off on his work with a surgical laser leaving his brand on an unknown number of patients. He plead guilty in 2017 and was suspended and fined but has recently been reinstated since it was determined his abilities had not been compromised. Normally his marks would have disappeared before anyone could have noticed since the liver can regenerate itself but one patient had complications which were treated by a different surgeon who found the initials on her liver.
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