Becker's Healthcare April 29, 2024
The number of complaints from patients who are harmed by complications when undergoing cosmetic procedures has increased in recent years. Complaints have ranged from harm done to patients to infectious disease outbreaks.
Loma Linda (Calif.) University Medical Center said it sees patients daily who experienced a serious complication from cosmetic surgery that was performed by a physician with no background in the specialty, according to a March 31 Los Angeles Times report. California’s medical board received more than 600 complaints alleging negligence in cosmetic surgery, though it is not clear how many of those are related to procedures performed by licensed physicians who are not certified in plastic surgery.
“The cosmetic world is kind of the Wild West,” Jeffrey...
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