Whatever made you think that?
Posted on 09/02/2019 3:41:04 PM PDT by Steely Tom
Windell Davis-Boutté, a DeKalb County dermatologist who caused a bride-to-be to become permanently brain damaged while dancing and singing during a tummy tuck, has been ordered to pay $190,000 in consumer restitution after a slew of malpractice suits against her.
Attorney General Chris Carr said that Boutte’ and the practices she owns—Premiere Dermatology & Surgery, LLC, Aesthetic Laser & Boutique, Inc. and Boutté Contour Surgery & Dermatology, P.C.—have entered into a consent judgment with the State of Georgia in response to allegations that they violated the Georgia Fair Business Practices Act by falsely representing Boutté’s medical certifications and failing to provide refunds for cosmetic surgery procedures that were never performed.
Boutte’ filmed herself dancing and singing over exposed patients in the operating room, while making incisions on them, according to news reports. More than 20 such videos were found on YouTube. Ojay Liburd blamed Boutte for leaving his mother, Icilma Cornelius with permanent brain damage. The bride-to-be was weeks away from getting married when Boutte performed a tummy tuck in 2016 that left her helpless for life.
“In order to make sound health-related decisions, Georgia patients must be able to trust the information they receive from their medical providers regarding their qualifications,” said Carr. “It is incredibly dangerous and irresponsible for a medical provider to fabricate such information, and our office will hold accountable those who intentionally misrepresent their qualifications.”
Carr said that his office’s investigation revealed that Premiere Dermatology’s website and advertising materials represented that Boutté was “board certified” in “surgery,” “cosmetic surgery,” and “skin surgery,” when actually, Boutté was only certified as a “dermatologist” under the American Board of Dermatology (ABD). The ABD does not issue certifications or sub-certifications for surgery, skin surgery, or cosmetic surgery. The Attorney General also alleges that the website contained false or unsubstantiated representations concerning Boutté and her staff’s affiliations and qualifications. In addition, the Attorney General alleges that Premiere Dermatology has refused to refund payments made by consumers for unperformed surgeries after Boutté’s medical license was suspended.
Premiere Dermatology has entered into a consent judgment with the State of Georgia requiring it to pay $190,000 in consumer restitution. Additionally, the consent judgment prohibits Premiere Dermatology from again making false or misleading statements concerning Boutté and her staff’s qualifications. Should they do so in the future, they must pay $680,000 in civil penalties to the State.
The Attorney General’s Office has identified 38 consumers who are entitled to refunds under the terms of the consent judgment. These consumers prepaid for Boutté to perform a surgery, procedure, or other service, which never occurred and for which they were never refunded.
Other consumers who can demonstrate proof of payment to Premiere Dermatology & Surgery, LLC, Aesthetic Laser & Boutique, Inc., Boutté Contour Surgery & Dermatology, P.C. or Windell Davis-Boutté for one or more procedures that did not occur and that have not been fully refunded should file a claim with Carr’s office.
To receive refunds under the settlement, consumers must fill out a prescribed claim form and submit it to the Georgia Department of Law’s Consumer Protection Division, along with supporting documentation. Claim forms must be postmarked, faxed or hand-delivered no later than 5 p.m. EST on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020 in order to be considered for restitution.
I think the dumb bish did it all in order to try to be some kind of internet sensation.
How do you get brain damage from a tummy tuck?
Wait, I’m confused, Dr. Booty brain damaged someone leaving them “helpless for life” and pays 190k? WTH? Was there more to the article?
Prolonged hypotension and hypoxia while under a general anesthesia
Whatever made you think that?
It’s not the procedure, it’s the anesthesia that gets you.
This woman’s punishment is not severe enough. She needs to have her license permanently revoked.
Incredibly careless, incredibly vain and self centered.
Did I miss where the article said her license to practice ‘medicine’ of any type has been taken away?
If she can do this again, she absolutely will.
Let her move to Mexico and hide out there.
Or was she doing everything herself?
Plastic surgery seems to attract weird people. I recall one who was a cross-dresser and another who operated on his wife and young children.
Well, I don’t know enough about it to say, but if she received that many complaints and had to pay restitution, I would think that her license should be in jeopardy, too.
She’s black.
She needs to have her license permanently revoked.
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Seems things like depraved indifference, reckless endangerment and fraud should apply with prison sentence to match.
I’m sure there’s reasons why they don’t that only a lawyer can understand.
Another unintended consequence of Affirmative Action.......
“Wait, I’m confused, Dr. Booty brain damaged someone leaving them “helpless for life” and pays 190k? WTH? Was there more to the article?”
According to the posted article you can see that this
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Never go to an affirmative action doctor.
“”Ojay Liburd blamed Boutte for leaving his mother, Icilma Cornelius with permanent brain damage. The bride-to-be was weeks away from getting married””
A “child” of the bride to be is old enough to bring a lawsuit? I would think a woman with an adult son would have sense enough to know a marriage should mean more (first time? second time? never before?) than getting some fat trimmed off the body!
Gotta love those names...
Practice.
Whoever gave this dumb bunny a medical degree is also culpable.
That’s a doctor in our PC infatuated society!?!? I’d take one look and not trust going under the knife with her. And anyone here calls me out on it can check their white-guilt privilege.
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