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Re:Surgeon admits to branding initials on patients' livers by chesimov on Monday December 18, 2017 @06:15AM (#15950853)
Edit: I haven't been able to clearly determine if the actual initial burning was harmful (in a significant way) or not.
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Re:Surgeon admits to branding initials on patients' livers by DanBC on Monday December 18, 2017 @06:35AM (#15950946)
No, it wasn't. Surgeons have to mark livers to show areas they're going to work on. These are normally temporary markings and heal over time. When this surgeon made marks he also added his initials. He did this to one patient, and the marks did not heal, and another surgeon found the marks.

I'm not trying to defend him, but it wasn't intended to be a permanent marking.

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