A California gynecologist is being sued for branding a patient’s name on her uterus using an “electrocautery device.”
Dr. Red Alinsod removed Ingrid Paulicivic’s uterus during an operation at his Orange County office in 2006, according to the complaint posted on The Smoking Gun’s website. The Laguna Beach doctor carved “Ingrid” on the organ, according to the site, because he “did not want to get it confused with others.”
Alinsod told the site that labeling of body parts in that manner is not typical. But, he said, he “felt comfortable putting her name on the uterus” since the 47-year-old hairdresser was a “good friend.”
