Posts Tagged ‘ botched plastic surgery ’

What to learn from bad celebrity plastic surgery

These past six weeks have been stressful for all of us. So in this week’s newsletter, I thought I’d take a break from all things Corona and focus on something fun instead: celebrities! Celebrities and botched plastic surgeries go hand-in-hand. With that in mind, I thought I’d reveal some of the worst in celebrity plastic […]

  • Posted on: Apr 30 2020
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Should You Trust Your Doctor?

Here is my latest article on CNN.com.  It’s inspired by a recent local story about a hematologist who allegedly misdiagnosed patients with cancer so he could charge for their chemotherapy. Most of us assume that our doctors are trustworthy. They undergo a minimum of seven years of postgraduate schooling, pass rigorous tests and are responsible […]

  • Posted on: Aug 27 2013
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Cosmetic Surgeon Charged With Homicide In Liposuction Death

Startling story from the New York Daily News: A cosmetic surgeon was charged Thursday with causing a former model’s death by  liposuction. Oleg Davie, 51, pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and criminally negligent  homicide charges for operating on Isel Pineda in May of last year — even though  she’d previously had a heart transplant and was […]

  • Posted on: Apr 3 2013
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Dying To Be Beautiful – Beauty Trends That Can Prove Lethal – On “Katie”

The “Katie” show recently aired an episode that focused on black market and botched plastic surgery. She interviewed a woman who lost both arms and both butt cheeks after illegal silicone injections into her buttocks, a son and daughter whose mother died at the hands of a family doc performing liposuction, and a woman who […]

  • Posted on: Feb 7 2013
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