A surgeon who was banned from medicine after signing his initials on patients' livers appears to have self-published medical thriller books

• Simon Bramhall pleaded guilty to signing his initials on two transplanted livers in 2017.
• On Monday, the MPTS struck him off the UK's medical registry, banning him from practicing.

A surgeon who was struck off the United Kingdom's medical registry after he autographed his initials onto patients' livers appears to have self-published several medical thriller novels — including one about a doctor who marks a patient's liver.

Simon Bramhall originally pleaded guilty at the Birmingham Crown Court in December 2017 to using an argon beam coagulator to mark his initials on two transplanted livers after performing surgeries at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in 2013, according to documents from the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS).

On Monday, following the MPTS reviewing his actions in December 2020 and then revoking a suspension against him practicing medicine in June, the MPTS struck him off the medical registry, Insider reported. The tribunal said that Bramhall's actions hadn't caused any severe physical damage, but inflicted "significant emotional harm" to at least one of the patients, according to the BBC, and were "borne out of a degree of professional arrogance."

Outside of his work as a doctor, Bramhall appears to have self-published several thriller fiction novels with his writing partner Fionn Murphy involving organs, hospitals, and dangerous injuries.

"The Letterman" is described on Murphy and Bramhall's book website, Scalpel Stories, as a story about a surgeon who is "found to have inscribed his initials on a donor liver during a life-saving transplant operation," and the subsequent conflict that arises in the media and in court.

There is also "Just Another Saturday Night," which is about the accident and emergency department of a regional UK hospital and includes mention of "burst appendix, broken limbs, severed appendages... misplaced prosthesis; a brain hemorrhage," according to its description on the website.

The duo's earliest book, "Trick or Treat?" features a picture of a knife on the cover and includes "a hospital embroiled in racism, incompetence and drug abuse," and is described as a combination of detective fiction, medical drama, and dark humor on the website. It was self-published in June 2019, a year and a half after Bramhall pleaded guilty.

"The Letterman" is not available to purchase on Bramhall's Amazon Marketplace page, which features a picture of him and a description of his career as a surgeon at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, nor searchable on his Goodreads profile, but his other books are.

Bramhall's Amazon author biography says that he is "a Consultant Surgeon whose many years of experience are drawn upon for the medical aspects of the novels."

Bramhall and Murphy did not respond to requests for comment.