We Regret To Inform You That A British Surgeon Was Branding His Initials On Livers

NPR ^ | 13 Dec 2017 | CAMILA DOMONOSKE

[DUMBGRUNT]

And some pay good money to be branded!

Perhaps a lucrative sideline for the Doc?

Most UK Docs are not big bucks.

[Steely Tom]

What is it with these people in power?

[DIRTYSECRET]

What about the marbles in Burl Ives?

[Steely Tom]

What about the marbles in Burl Ives?

You've got me on that one.

[Yo-Yo]

Part of me wants to say ‘so what, where’s the harm?’ What artist doesn’t want to sign his work?

[montag813]

argon beam coagulator

[C210N]

Sounds like the potential for a budding new industry - we got tats on the outside, so gear up for tats on the inside.

[Blue Jays]

How does one precisely determine that their kidneys / liver / pancreas / appendix / intestines have had initials put on them, anyway?

[varyouga]

Kinda like when you have work done on a classic car. A mechanical will put his mark on a weld or bolt.

So if anyone else monkeyed around with it, he’ll instantly know

[iontheball]

This is beyond satire since no one could dream this up if they tried.

[DUMBGRUNT]

I have kin that was a brand new Navy Doc, WWII.

He was the ships Doctor when a sailor was injured.
While they are getting everything ready he is looking at his books! Being an ophthalmologist, this was not what he was trained in.

At a ship reunion a few years back, the sailor told him everything healed just fine.

The ‘marbles’ always remind me of that event.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

What's the problem? QA requires you to sign off on everything.
 

[bk1000]

How do you even find out you have someone’s initials on your liver?

[radiohead]

<How does one precisely determine that their kidneys / liver / pancreas / appendix / intestines have had initials put on them, anyway?

My stepfather was a litigator, with more than a few medical malpractice cases under his belt.

When you get info like this, it’s usually from a nurse or other operating room personnel who get fed up and rat out the doctor. I’d bet dollars to donuts, this wasn’t the first time the doctor did this.

[Chode]

they're sterile

[Calvin Locke]

From the sequel to "Mister Roberts". Ives took on the James Cagney role/character, and whomever did the Jack Lemmon role, did an appy on Ives, placing, in defiance of the radio MD's order, sterilized glass - marbles, in Ives.

At the end of the film, Ives is shown in a launch, gently probing a spot on his abdomen.

[GreenLanternCorps]

That is “Ensign Pulver” with Robert Walker Jr. as the title character.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Ask your team to look around a bit when doing esophagogastroduodenoscopy.

Better still when they do the both ends combo.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Don’t cross the streams!

Especially when using flammable or explosive anesthetics.

Very bad.

[reed13k]

Likely post-operation scans to check for progress, proper healing, etc

Either that or he bragged about it or one of the others in the operating room spoke up.