That’s possible. Chavis only qualification to even be in medicine was his skin color and it led to tragedy.
Sadly though given how our society is obsessed with looking young and quick fixes many doctors whose practice is something other than cosmetic surgery go into it with deadly results.
James Howard woke up on Valentine’s Day 2010 to find his wife lying dead on the living room couch after she went to a clinic for “minimally invasive” liposuction.
Alberto Sant Antonio, whose office wasn’t registered as a surgery center, had done the liposuction a day earlier. According to the autopsy report, Lee-Howard died of an overdose of the painkiller lidocaine from complications after “elective cosmetic surgery.”Lee-Howard told her husband she had learned of the Alyne Medical Rejuvenation Institute through an ad and that she’d found a “safe” way to lose weight by surgery.
Sant Antonio is one of a soaring number of doctors who trained in other medical specialties, such as vision or obstetrics, but have branched into the more lucrative field of cosmetic surgery.
https://www.wltx.com/article/news/health/lack-of-training-can-be-deadly-in-liposuction/101-377481916
This business helped transform Miami into a national plastic surgery destination. Eight women died.
.....this clinic is run like a factory assembly line, where individual doctors – many with little specialized training – line up patients and operate on as many as eight a day, an investigation by USA TODAY and the Naples Daily News has found.
In surgeries designed to improve appearances, no one is expected to die.
But in the past six years, the Miami clinic and a nearby facility overseen by the same doctor have lost eight patients in a spate of casualties not seen anywhere else in Florida. Together, they account for about 1 of every 5 plastic surgery deaths in the state, the investigation found.
Nearly a dozen other patients were left with critical complications, including three with punctured internal organs, that forced them to rush to hospitals for help, medical reports and other records show.
Many of the fatalities and injuries were not the results of unavoidable complications, but of serious mistakes and procedures that went far beyond the bounds of safety.
Four of the women died after their doctors mistakenly injected body fat deep in their muscles and tore the veins during a popular surgery known as the Brazilian butt lift, records and interviews show. The fat pooled in their hearts and lungs, killing them in minutes.
A 51-year-old mother from Georgia was forced to have emergency surgery after her small intestine was perforated three times during her cosmetic procedure and human waste spilled into her body.
A 33-year-old woman who had cosmetic surgery was hospitalized after emergency room doctors discovered her liver had been lacerated, which caused her to bleed internally for days.
Seven of the women who died were working-class Hispanics and African Americans — groups targeted by the clinics’ advertising campaigns.
While deaths and injuries mounted, the names of the clinics were changed three times since 2016, but one person has remained at the center: Dr. Ismael Labrador.
The 56-year-old doctor, who was once suspended from practice for allowing unlicensed workers to perform cosmetic procedures, spent years building the business and burnishing a national image for the facilities, crafting social media campaigns that target women with messages that they, too, can afford body transformations.
The business is among more than a dozen high-volume clinics that have transformed Florida into a national destination for plastic surgery.
The centers are radical departures from the cosmetic surgery clinics that long dominated the industry.
They are owned by investors and driven by social media marketing and discount prices that attract thousands of patients each year from across the country.
It’s a big problem.
Some physicians call themselves plastic surgeons without undergoing any extensive training in plastic surgery. “If you operate in your office, because of restrictive trade laws, physicians are allowed to do whatever they want,” warns Dr. Pinsky. Any physician, he adds, could practice brain surgery or plastic surgery inside of their own office, as the only legal requirement is a medical license.
As a result of these trade laws, a doctor who attends a weekend seminar on breast augmentation could call himself a plastic surgeon and offer breast enhancement in his office. This poses significant risks to uninformed patients. Unlike physicians with only a general medical school background, board certified plastic surgeons have had many years – often a decade or more – of training and residencies specific to surgery and plastic surgery.
https://www.theplasticsurgerychannel.com/2017/02/22/fake-plastic-surgery/
It really is awful. I had another really good friend at the same airline who had liposuction. She was already a size 2 and wanted to be a size 0. SMH.