"I've been giving medical attention to poeple throughout the third world for a better part of a decade, so you could call me that." He wasn't an MD. He wasn't licensed by any panel--but he was the best they had at the moment.

"This," he said, as he took a paper towel and gently dabbed his arm and hand dry, "is from the Peacekeepers. They wanted to know some things, and I didn't want to tell them." He picked up a roll of bandages perched on the sink next to him, beginning to wrap his newly dried arm and hand. "I'm guessing that's where you got the brand, too."

He hadn't been able to find out whether Steve and Bucky had been caught during the jailbreak, since he and Tony were on the run with Topher, but he had known that Steve and Bucky had participated. The brand must mean that they were caught.