A family is demanding answers days after New York mother who traveled to the Dominican Republic reportedly died moments before undergoing liposuction. According to the Daily Mail, Johana Gonzalez, 25, died Tuesday while being prepped for the elective surgery at the Center for Plastic Surgery and Liposculpture (El Centro de Cirucia Plastica y and Lipoescultura, CECILIP) …
Police announced they’ve arrested a Brazillian plastic surgeon who was reportedly on the run after conducting a butt enhancement procedure that led to a woman’s death. Per the BBC, an anonymous tip led police to Dr. Denis Furtado, 45, in Rio de Janiero. Dr. Furtado was wanted on murder charges after one of his patients, Lilian Calixto, 46, …
A plastic surgeon to the stars is missing after a woman reportedly received injections to enlarge her buttocks and died hours later. According to the BBC, Dr. Denis Furtado, also known as Dr. Bumbum, performed the elective procedure on Lilian Calixto, 46, at his home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Calixto reportedly suffered complications afterward, prompting …
A West Virginia family has accused a local hospital of giving them the wrong newborn baby for two hours last week. According to the Charleston Gazette-Mail, Crystal and Arnold “Junior” Perry had given birth to a boy, named Dawson, at Logan Regional Medical Center on June 12. Grandmother Barbara Colegrove claimed Arnold went to the nursery Thursday to …
An emergency room doctor in California has been suspended after she was reportedly caught on camera berating a man who was suffering from an anxiety attack and claiming he couldn’t breathe. ABC News reported that Samuel Bardwell, 20, was rushed to El Camino Hospital in Los Gatos after he experienced a severe anxiety attack and passed …
The Georgia Composite Medical Board has suspended the license of Dr. Windell Davis Boutte, the dancing dermatologist recently disgraced by allegations of malpractice dating back as far as two years. In an order obtained by WSB-TV, the state board deemed the doctor a “threat to the public health.” The order was handed down Thursday, a day …
A Russian woman has died 13 months after undergoing a breast enlargement surgery which resulted in her slipping into a coma that she would never come out of. According to the Daily Mail, the death of Galina Rakushina, 30, was the latest in a chain of fatalities attributed to plastic surgeries performed at one Moscow clinic. …
When Michelle Levine gave what she thought was an honest review of a Manhattan gynecologist, she never thought she would end up spending nearly $20,000 defending herself against a defamation lawsuit…though that is exactly what has happened. In July 2017, Levine looked online for a gynecologist and came upon Dr. Joon Song, of New York …
Dr. Windell Davis Boutté, the Georgia dermatologist who has gone viral with videos of herself dancing while performing surgery, is facing numerous malpractice lawsuits. Per WSB-TV, Dr. Boutté is facing at least seven lawsuits, which include claims that she used unqualified staff during medical procedures that allegedly left her patients disfigured. Two additional lawsuit settlements are …
A newly released report alleged that a Washington emergency room nurse was suicidal when she used her patients’ narcotics for herself before injecting them with the same needle—essentially exposing thousands to Hepatitis C. The document, obtained by People, stated that nurse Cora Weberg, 31, injected the narcotics “with a plan to end her life.” Originally arrested on …
By BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An herbalist who touted natural cures that helped him overcome cancer has been charged in the death of a 13-year-old diabetic boy who prosecutors said he treated with herbal oils instead of insulin. Timothy Morrow, 83, was charged with practicing medicine without a license and child abuse …
By DAVID EGGERT and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER, Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The former sports doctor who admitted molesting some of the nation’s top gymnasts for years was sentenced Wednesday to 40 to 175 years in prison as the judge declared: “I just signed your death warrant.” The sentence capped a remarkable seven-day hearing in which …
