This is another grisly reminder that plastic surgery is just that – a surgery, with all the same risks as any other surgery, if not safer in some instances depending on the degree of invasiveness.
A North Carolina woman died back in 2001 under the care of a plastic surgeon whose license was suspended and then reinstated after careful review and only with the toughest of restrictions.
Just recently the nurse who was tending to the female patient after her cosmetic surgery was implicated in the death, officials saying they believe the nurse administered a lethal dosage of a powerful painkiller on purpose, although they would not release the suspected motive.
The nurse reportedly went to high school with the patient. Suspicions grew and were focused on the nurse in the woman’s plastic surgery death when staff advised she repeatedly told people not to summon the physician, and refused help from other staffers when the woman went in to respiratory distress.
