Malpractice
by Aaron Margolis, August 1st, 2006 at 06:05am
In a clear case of malpractice, a Brazilian couple is being charged for performing an illegal surgery that resulted in the death of a local woman who sought their services, but instead got a botched basement liposuction.
A Brazilian couple is charged with performing illegal plastic surgery on local women in the basement of a condominium, resulting in one instance in the death of a Framingham resident.
Luiz Carlos Ribeiro and his wife, Ana Maria Miranda Ribeiro, both 49, of Brazil, face several drug charges. The husband is also facing a charge of practicing medicine without a license.
Ribeiro told the doctors he had given DePaula sedatives so he could perform liposuction on the Framingham woman.
DePaula died at the hospital.
Ribeiro told police he was a licensed doctor in Brazil, and that he and his wife had come up to Framingham on a 30-day work visa just to perform the surgeries in the basement of 201 Bishop Drive, Hettinger said.
DePaula paid $3,000 for the surgery. A second woman is in the hospital being treated for a “severe” infection from liposuction, Hettinger said.
It is impolite to speak ill of the dead, but I just have to say that while these work visa Brazilians deserve severe punishment, you can not ignore the fact that anyone who opts for any kind of medical procedure–plastic surgery, mind you–performed in a basement, deserves some kind of Idiot of the Year Award, albeit, posthumously. She didn’t deserve to die, but you can’t argue her stupidity put her life at risk, and now the only person who can’t learn from her mistake is herself.
While the full details have yet to surface, we know this woman paid $3,000 for this fatal surgery. A quick glance at some typical costs for liposuction makes me wonder, was it really worth it?
Seriously, what do you expect from a basement hack job surgery?
Was there malpractice, yes, by both Ribeiro and DePaula.
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