A French surgeon faces legal action after he tried to sell an X-ray of one of his patient’s injuries as a digital artwork without her consent. The senior surgeon at a Paris hospital put the image of a woman’s forearm with a Kalashnikov bullet lodged near the bone up for sale online as an NFT. The listing said she had been shot in the arm during the 2015 Bataclan attack in Paris which left 130 people dead. Emmanuel Masmejean now faces legal action and possible misconduct charges. Mr Masmejean, an orthopaedic surgeon at the Georges Pompidou hospital, had also described the patient on the NFT website as a young woman who had lost her boyfriend during the 2015 massacre in Paris by Islamic State gunmen. Asked for comment by Mediapart, which first reported the story, Mr Masmejean reportedly said he acknowledged that the sale was “an error” and that he regretted not having sought permission from the patient.(BBC)…[+]