At least 13 women died after surgeries at Miami-area plastic surgery centers opened by convicted felons, according to a USA TODAY Network investigation.
in a Miami-area plastic surgery business where eight women died after operations and nearly a dozen were hospitalized.People are coming here from all over the country for what should have been simple procedures, and they're dying. We don't want to be known as a place where people come to die.
A 64-year-old woman was given lethal doses of opioids by her doctor during a face lift in 2008, a state malpractice probe found. Another woman died three years later after a neck lift during which her doctor gave her a dangerous mix of sedatives and then failed to monitor her, state investigators reported.records. None of them made a difference.
By paying doctors strictly on commission and offering cut-rate prices, the clinics often operate with packed waiting rooms and busy surgical suites, and at times leave patients to fend for themselves after procedures. She’d undergone breast reduction surgery at the clinic. So, when she decided to get a Brazilian butt lift, she chose Strax again.
“She said she wanted to do this procedure. And I said, ‘Are you sure? Because, I mean, I could understand the breast reduction, but I don’t understand what else you want to do. I don’t see the need for it,’ ” Thompson said. “But she said she wanted to do it. And once she has her mind set on something, she does it.”
Mark Leibowitz, an attorney for Dr. Christopher Kelly, Thompson's surgeon at Strax, said his client did nothing wrong. "You had a sophisticated patient who fully understood the risk she was taking," Leibowitz said. The Florida medical board is now considering adopting an unprecedented standard of care rule that would ban doctors from injecting fat too deep during butt lifts, said Christopher Nuland, attorney for the Florida Society of Plastic Surgeons.
Sobel, a Democrat, proposed a bill to allow the state to shutter the worst offenders and screen owners for criminal backgrounds, giving Florida the option of barring ex-offenders from running clinics.The Senate backed the legislation, but it failed to win support in a crucial House subcommittee. Jason Brodeur, former GOP lawmaker and chairman of the panel, told USA TODAY he didn't recall the bill or why it failed.
Driven by social media ad blitzes and telemarketers, the clinics continued to grow. They rode the popularity of a new body-sculpting procedure, promoted by rap singers and reality show stars like Kim Kardashian: the Brazilian butt lift. Before Hernandez began serving a 15-month prison term, he was granted permission to keep running Spectrum while on supervised release. His lawyer told the judge it was a regulated business “staffed by board-certified plastic surgeons."The clinic had hired several doctors not certified in plastic surgery, including Osakatukei Omulepu, who had failed his board exams three times.
Despite the state launching a malpractice investigation and a local hospital stripping Omulepu of his privileges, Spectrum continued to allow him to carry out surgeries for months, state health records show. Omulepu told USA TODAY the two women who suffered perforated organs were the "only serious complications of my career."
At the urging of the Florida Society of Plastic Surgeons, Sobel stepped forward with yet another bill in 2016, asking lawmakers to require background checks on owners. This time the bill was especially harsh on felony offenders: They would be automatically banned.“Over-regulation, they tell people,” she said. "They use that as an excuse even when people die."
Call, then 31, worked for the New York State Bridge Authority. She knew a butt lift would be far more expensive if performed by a board-certified surgeon closer to home. What she didn’t know was the man who managed the clinic had been charged in a mortgage scam years earlier. The Jardon family lives in this $4 million Miami compound, purchased in 2016 after the family founded the Seduction clinics in Miami-Dade. Gretel Jardon and her husband, Rayner Aguiar, manage the business with her father, Luis Jardon.Call said she has difficulty walking longer than five minutes and can no longer run. She said her stomach is covered with deep and unsightly scars from the surgery. After two years of treatments, she said she owes about $156,000 in medical bills.
For the fifth time, the legislature has taken up a bill to rein in clinics. Sen. Flores is taking no chances, making sure her colleagues understand the stakes. Since 2014, the clinic has failed to meet safety standards in every annual state inspection. Among the violations: missing medical records and patients paying for surgeries before they see a doctor. Plans of correction were filed by the clinic each year.
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