Lips, as intended by God:
Those poor children. I hope she had sisters and brothers.
Posted on 12/09/2023 2:49:24 AM PST by Libloather
A Florida plastic surgeon is under investigation after his surgery-obsessed wife suffered a cardiac arrest while on his operating table.
Hillary Brown, 33, went under the knife on November 21 at her husband Dr Ben Brown's clinic, Restore Plastic Surgery, in Gulf Breeze Florida, before suffering a medical emergency in the middle of 'several procedures.'
A mother of three young children from a previous marriage, Brown spent a week in a coma before she passed away, as she was taken off life support when it was determined her brain had been starved of oxygen.
Her husband's clinic is reportedly facing several separate medical malpractice lawsuits, and is being investigated by the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office.
Brown passed away seven days after the fateful procedure on November 21, when she was rushed to hospital after Ben alerted 911 from his clinic at around 4:15pm.
Court records seen by USA Today noted that she was 'in the process of several surgical procedures when she was struck by the cardiac arrest, after being potentially overmedicated.
Brown's father, Marty Ellington, told the Pensacola News Journal that he received a frantic phone call from Ben telling them to race to Florida from their home in Texas right away.
While saying her relationship with Ben had been volatile, Ellington said she enjoyed being married to a plastic surgeon as he could perform any number of surgeries on her at a whim.
'She was gorgeous. We kept telling her, ‘Why are you doing this?’ he recalled.
An award-winning surgeon, Ben studied at Georgetown University and graduated top of his medical school class, according to his company profile. His specialties include breast enhancement, facial rejuvenation and body contouring.
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Just one more surgery, honey, just onnnneeee moooorrrree, and you can make me look as good as Melania.
Wise words. Thanks.
the old lady Jeanine Pirro should take note
Please, good friends, never have a procedure where there is not an anesthesiologist available. CRNAs will tell you the do just as well as us and it just ain’t true. Care team anesthesia is ok under medical direction which means an anesthesiologist is immediately available and has no more than four rooms to supervise and must be present at the most dangerous times and frequently throughout. Or request MD administered anesthesia only.
They still bill as if you are getting care from a doctor, though. Recently, the charge to trim my kid’s ingrown toe nail was like $1200. Just ridiculous. We saw a doctor for 5 minutes and everything else was done by nurses. A very minor procedure but still required referral to a podiatrist and 3 office visits (family MD, podiatrist and actual procedure). I had the same issue as a kid in the ‘80s taken care of in one appointment without all the rigmarole now required.
Yikes. Sorry she was messed up in the head like that.
The plastic surgery Generic women
“Body contouring usually involves a lot of liposuction which makes the patient hypothermic and many fluid shifts with electrolyte problems.“
I’d wondered about this as a result of lipo. Thanks for clearing that up.
I was always under the impression that medical ethics forbade performing surgery or other major procedures on family members. My father was a doctor, and he’d stitch us up as needed, maybe set a collarbone or reduce a dislocated shoulder, but anything more serious was done by another doctor.
You DOG!! (not meant as an insult)
Your timing was spot on.
But I am truly sorry for the family of the deceased.
Lips, as intended by God:
Those poor children. I hope she had sisters and brothers.
The older picture of her shows her as a pretty lady. She needed a shrink, not the knife. Sad. He was definitely stupid to do that work on her!
Would a colonoscopy with minimal pain relief be okay? I don’t want anesthesia, and “nothing” and “minimal” seem the best alternatives.
So she died suddenly?
I just use a good set of dikes.
He should have just taken her Deer Hunting.
I just underwent a lumpectomy yesterday, and was very pleased that an anesthiologist was present throughout the procedure. He introduced himself to me during pre-op. Great guy, I felt very comfortable and relaxed.
Yeah. Sure. That’s the ticket. As I have said before someone could get run over by a train and a small coterie here would say reflexively clot shot.
It’s totally insane. I agree
Colonoscopies are quite uncomfortable because of the reverse flatulence effect. In order to get the scope allllllll the way around to the cecum, air is used to distend the colon and usually by the end the patient feels somewhat like a Macy parade balloon. It is incredibly uncomfortable. Some GI guys (follow the money — doing it in their office scores both the professional fee AND the facility fee) under light sedation — fentanyl and versed (that drug that many whom object to corona virus vaccination have vilified as the cause of death). Problem is the hangover from these drugs last a lot longer than the 20-40 minutes of a colonoscopy.
Rapid acting agents with a drizzle of analgesic (back when I was working in the GI rooms — the “butt hut”) I used a little ketamine with the propofol) and found that the patient had a a smooth non-squirmy and rapid emergence with little hangover and they were pretty clear within 15 or so minutes after the end of procedure.
The onset of the “sedation” drugs are pretty slow compared with the timing of colonoscopy. You need a light switch — talking — asleep — talking. The majority of the time the patient gets a big chunk of sedation and the GI guy is chomping at the bit to go. So you have a patient who is properly sedated about 15 minutes into the procedure and miserable until then. GI guy is done five minutes later and the patient is well sedated for the next 45 minutes in the recovery room.
Propofol is a light switch but the razor edge between sedated and breathing and sedated and not breathing is the width of a balding man’s hair. Anesthesia is an incredible art form. Gotta read a lot of tea leaves to do it well. And as in most things in life — timing is everything.
Hope it all went well and prayers for you and the results of the procedure
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