This sounds like an UL but its not. The nurses said that he was so proud of the suturing he just did that he carved his initials into the patient! I will try to find a link to the news article.
Doc Who Left Initials on Patient Quits
Medicine
April 26, 2000 8:09 am EST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan judge said on
Tuesday she would spare from jail an obstetrician who
carved his initials on the belly of a woman whose child he
had just delivered, noting the doctor had brain disease.
Dr. Allan Zarkin, 61, had been charged with two counts of
assault and faced up to 25 years in prison. But in a deal
recommended by prosecutors, he was allowed to plead
guilty to second degree assault on condition that he be
placed on probation for five years and did “not practice
medicine anywhere.”
Assistant District Attorney Martha Bashford told the judge
the carving victim, dentist Liana Gedz, “was steadfast in
her opinion that jail would not be appropriate as long as
he did not practice medicine and was not a danger to the
community.”
Zarkin etched a three-inch “A.Z.” into Gedz’s skin as she
lay sedated on the delivery table at New York Beth Israel
Medical Center last September after undergoing a
Caesarean section.
“After the procedure was over, I used my scalpel and
scratched my initials in her abdomen,” Zarkin told
Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Renee White.
His license to practice medicine was revoked by the State
Health Department Feb. 3 and the hospital was fined
$14,000 for ignoring repeated warning signs about Zarkin’s
bizarre behavior.
Judge White set May 30 for formal sentencing but said she
would go along with the prosecutor’s recommendation.
She said Zarkin suffered from “a frontal lobe disorder”
called Pick’s disease, an Alzheimer’s-like condition that
causes personality and behavior changes and dementia.
Gedz is suing Zarkin and the hospital in civil court for $5.5
million and has said that what he did to her makes her feel
“like a branded animal.”