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Tummy Tuck Fort Lauderdale
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Question: Five Florida residents have died since May after liposuction or other
surgery to reshape their bodies, including two people operated on at
the same surgical center in Fort Lauderdale.
Two patients died shortly after operations at the Florida Center for
Cosmetic Surgery on Middle River Drive in Fort Lauderdale, which has
targeted minorities and gay men with aggressive advertising and boasts
a Web site that promises "safe, beautiful, long-lasting results."
Have you known about this? Any information to share with me?
Answer: It is the third time in recent years that cosmetic surgery deaths have
spiked in an eerily similar pattern, defying some of the nation's
strictest patient safety standards and repeated assurances from state
health officials that the procedures can be done safely in medical
offices.
Upon hearing of the five latest deaths,the chairwoman of
the Florida Board of Medicine, said she was
distressed and would make sure the Florida Department of Health
investigates each one.
"We need to look at all of those cases, and see if there's any common
thread and see if we need to address it," she said.
Ms A died in his Fort Lauderdale apartment on
Nov. 14, his 51st birthday, the day after facial surgery by Dr.
Timo, one of the Florida Center's five surgeons, state
records show.
Ms J, a 45-year-old mother of three and a 13-year
South Florida Sun-Sentinel employee, died on Jan. 7, about two days
after a tummy tuck and liposuction performed there, family and friends
said.
The Broward County Medical Examiner's Office has yet to determine the
cause of either death. The center's medical director, Dr. Jeffrey
Hamm, and the chief executive of an Atlanta-area firm that owns the
center said they would have no comment on the deaths, citing patient
confidentiality laws.
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