Crown Prosecution Service specialist prosecutor Elizabeth Reid said: “Simon Bramhall was a respected surgeon who assaulted two of his patients while they were undergoing surgery. It was an intentional application of unlawful force to a patient whilst anesthetized. His acts in marking the livers of those patients, in a wholly unnecessary way, were deliberate and conscious acts on his part.
“Those assaults were wrong not just ethically, but also criminally. It was an abuse of the trust placed in him by the patients.”
The soon-to-be ex-surgeon was a liver, spleen, and pancreatic surgeon who worked at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, West Midlands for 12 years. He was also involved in tutoring and examining medical students and supervising postgraduate students in higher degrees, management, and research.
