Illegal Liposuction Trial to Begin
Remember that story we talked about quite a while ago, about how women were being put in jeopardy out of their desire to receive dirt cheap plastic surgery, and there was a ring of Brazilian “doctors” performing surgeries like liposuction at extremely reduced rates, who had no business or credentials to perform such surgeries? Well, the case the killed a Maryland woman who had liposuction performed by a Mr. Ribeiro has begun and prosecutors are hoping for a conviction of manslaughter in the case.
Liposuction, as we all know well, is an incredibly popular and expensive procedure which extracts fat pockets from targeted parts of the body, most often requested belly, buttocks and thighs. It is not a cellulite treatment as well, but has been known to help tone down cellulite as well since it does in effect reduce the amount of fat bulging and the spongy effect.
The trial is to determine that the man is guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a female immigrant who had liposuction surgery done by him, where he says he performed the surgery in a sterile environment (oh, he should get off then, right? I’m being facetious of course). The patient actually ended up dying of complication arising from the surgery, one that is fairly rare but has been reported before, where fat cells migrate to the lungs, or an embolism.
The catch is that Ribeiro was a licensed plastic surgeon in his native Brazil, but was not licensed to perform surgery in the US, so he set up shop in unsanitary conditions in the basement of a condominium where his clientele was mostly Brazilian immigrants, and he had no sophisticated equipment or monitors like one would receive in a normal medical environment.
Prosecutors contend that if the women were in a professional office, she would have lived since the proper equipment was available to monitor her progress.
