He was proud of his handiwork and signed off on it. Have we enough skilled surgeons to remove them for a harmless boast? Reprimanded, sure, but removing him from his post is both an over reaction and unfair to society which is already lacking in skilled healthcare professionals.
If his ego/vanity changes the actions that he takes when performing surgery, that sounds like a problem to me.
It is part of a bad culture among medical doctors, where they both torture themselves and apparently others as well. The profession as a whole should really wake up or they will face a similar reaction as taxi drivers did with the introduction of Uber and Lyft. Nobody want’s to be forced to be a customer in businesses that supersede customer trust for ego.
If we're sticking to car analogies he wrote his name in the dirt on the back of a truck, but the dirt was abrasive and so he also scratched his initials into the paint.
That is, a patient who gets signed upon and one who doesn't following the exact same procedure for the rest are at an identical risk?
> Oxford student given suspended sentence for stabbing boyfriend
> Judge had reportedly earlier told Lavinia Woodward a prison term could damage her prospects of becoming a heart surgeon
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/sep/25/oxford-student-l...