Thanks, Stoat. You said it perfectly.
awww...why thank YOU for your kind and gracious compliment :-)
Upon reflection, I have an idea as to how this happened. You have a talented and probably brilliant sturgeon whose roots are in a country not known for extreme (legal) wealth. He moves to America where he is going to be treated FAR better in every possible way than he would be in Colombia. He develops a 'new, innovative procedure' ("liposculpting") which proves immensely popular and lucrative (never mind that if the lawsuits are any judge, possibly quite dangerous and unpredictable as well), and he develops the perspective that he is a Mozart, a visionary who doesn't have to follow the rules that everybody else follows because, after all, he is so very much more brilliant than everyone else and those laws and rules are just for the dumb, unwashed masses. OF COURSE his methods will be celebrated and an exception to the rules will be made for him because he is so very much better than everyone else.
Somebody like that can buy diesel by the tanker truckload for his personal vehicles....he was doing this for his ego, IMHO.