hmm. This makes me of that doctor that would burn the initials of his school into whatever organ he was removing (I can't remember the kind of operation it was but it was female-specific) and one of his patients found out and is sueing him, even though a) the organ is getting removed anyway and b) it's standard practice to burn one end of it to differentiate between the top & bottom for the lab's benefit - he just chose to burn letters into it instead of a random mark.
I'm not trying to compare the two, it's just what came to mind.