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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Juan. Instead of spending Mother's

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Speaker 1: Day weekend celebrating family members are the mother of three

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Speaker 1: planned her funeral. Dania Placentia died after having a Brazilian

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Speaker 1: butt lift procedure. We now know who performed the surgery

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Speaker 1: and what caused her death. Most of Dnaya Placentia's family

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Speaker 1: didn't know she was having cosmetic surgery. Otherwise, they say

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Speaker 1: You're putting your life on the line, so I just

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Speaker 1: don't think it's worth that. The mother of three young

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Speaker 1: children went to Miesthetics on Friday morning to have a

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Speaker 1: rushed to the hospital where she died. The medical examiner

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Speaker 1: says Placentia died of what's called a fat embolism. That's

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Speaker 1: when a piece of fat gets into the bloodstream and

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Speaker 1: causes a patient to stop breathing. Embolism is a very

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Speaker 1: leful thing. The NBC six investigators found at least twelve

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Speaker 1: women died of the same cause after the same procedure

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Speaker 1: in our area, different doctors and clinics. You are hearing

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Speaker 1: our friend Dan Kraut at NBC six in Miami, a

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Speaker 1: gorgeous young mother of three dead from complications from a

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Speaker 1: so called Brazilian butt lift. And I don't mean in Brazil.

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Speaker 1: I don't mean some bargain basement cosmetic procedure in another country.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about right here in Miami. A mom of

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Speaker 1: procedure where patients are twenty times more likely to die

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Speaker 1: is crime stories. Thank you for being with us. I

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Speaker 1: don't understand it. I don't know if it's a craze

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Speaker 1: developed from, for instance, Kim Kardashian, which really set the

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Speaker 1: bar for people that want to enhance their rear ends.

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Speaker 1: She's beautiful, she's glamorous, she's gorgeous, she's a multi millionaire.

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Speaker 1: People see what she did and try to emulate that.

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Speaker 1: What went wrong? Why is this young mom of three dead?

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Speaker 1: Joining me an all star panel? Dave Max, syndicated talk

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Speaker 1: show host Kenya Johnson, felony prosecutor out of Atlanta, doctor

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Speaker 1: field Guide. Doctor Daniel Bober, forensic psychiatrist and private investigator,

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Speaker 1: First to you, Dave Max, syndicated talk show host. Let's

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Speaker 1: just start with the beginning. Who is Dania Placincia. She's

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Speaker 1: a twenty eight year old mother of three who wanted

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Speaker 1: it look like him Kargadashian, I guess you know that's

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Speaker 1: your bottom. Beautiful love by her family, a great mother,

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Speaker 1: only twenty eight years old, and one of this procedure.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm just overwhelmed. I'm just trying to even remember

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Speaker 1: what was I doing at age twenty eight. Let's see,

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Speaker 1: I had gotten out of law school. Let's see. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: by that time, I was knee deep and one hundred

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Speaker 1: I was doing, dreaming that being a wife and a

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Speaker 1: forensic psychiatrist, I am not in any way judging plastic

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Speaker 1: surgery at all. If you can afford it and it

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Speaker 1: makes you feel better about yourself and you've got a

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Speaker 1: So in a roundabout way back to my question, doctor Bober,

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Speaker 1: to our friends at ABC seven. It's exactly what they

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Speaker 1: All we know is that she went into surgery and

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Speaker 1: Her grandfather, who's also a doctor, says all he knows

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Speaker 1: to doctor Michelle Dpree, medical examined or author of homicide

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Speaker 1: That tells me something very important that she was not

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Speaker 1: We are fully dedicated to investigating why today's tragedy occurred.

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Speaker 1: Instead of spending Mother's Day weekend celebrating family members with

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Speaker 1: It's just I don't get it, doctor Bouber. Frankly, Doctor Bober,

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Speaker 1: It looks like a Greek goddess, for Pete's sake. And

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Speaker 1: And the pressure a feeling like that is the goal.

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Speaker 1: be a voluntary manslaughter. Involuntary manslaughter where you don't intend

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Speaker 1: the crime, but you're not performing a felony, but a

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00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: death occurs. Well, certainly the reckless conduct in that if

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Speaker 1: all the teams were not cross and there were gross

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Speaker 1: discrepancies in the standard of care at this facility, then

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Speaker 1: criminal intent can be derived from gross negligence. And so

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Speaker 1: we are looking at possibly voluntary manslaughter because they acted

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Speaker 1: in a way purposefully. However it was gross and misconduct

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Speaker 1: and then involuntary and that they didn't intend for the

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00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:36,120
Speaker 1: result to occur. So there could be very likely criminal

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Speaker 1: charges as a result of not properly operating this facility,

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00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: and any negligence that results is from those operations. So

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00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: Vincent Hill, private investigator, a former co author a playbook

437
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,719
Speaker 1: to a murder vinca, this is tricky. How do you

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00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 1: go about amassing evidence if you want to do a

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Speaker 1: criminal investigation? Yeah, to your point, Nancy, it is tricky

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00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,199
Speaker 1: because keep in mind here the victims went to this

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00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 1: clinic willingly. The intent was I guess, a good act

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00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 1: if you will, because they were going there to enhance themselves,

443
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 1: and you know, the people performing these surgery. They were

444
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,439
Speaker 1: trying to fulfill the victims wishes here, so it is

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00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 1: tricky to come up on criminal charges. But I think

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00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,159
Speaker 1: it goes to a bigger point, Nancy, that you've been

447
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 1: touching on. We're in a society now, especially in social media,

448
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 1: where you have to look a certain way. I have

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00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,679
Speaker 1: a friend who's a plus size model who told me

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00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 1: the other day she's upset she only has like five

451
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: thousand followers, but she sees other people with like five

452
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: hundred thousand followers. So it speaks to this bigger issue

453
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: of we have to get out of that mindset that

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00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: you have to look a certain way to please a

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00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: certain demographic, or to please the world for that matter.

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00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Heather Meadows traveled from her

457
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: home in West Virginia to South Florida to get a

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00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: better body. She had just given birth to her second child,

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00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: and her best friend says she wanted to feel good

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00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: about herself. This was solely something that she wanted to

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00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: do for herself to make herself feel better. We talked

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00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: to her longtime friends Susanna Wilson through FaceTime. She was

463
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: the last to talk to Meadows minutes before her surgery.

464
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: What did she say to you? She was scared. This

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00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 1: was her first surgery ever in life, and she asked

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Speaker 1: me to pray for her, and she told me that

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00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: she loved me, and those were our last words, whereas

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00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: I love you Meadows. Autopsy showed she died of what's

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Speaker 1: called a fat embolism after undergoing a Brazilian butt lift procedure.

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00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: B NBC six investigators found it's what's killed at least

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Speaker 1: eight mothers in our area in the past five years,

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Speaker 1: different doctors and clinics. You're hearing our friend Dan Craft

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00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: at ABC six in Miami that number eight we now

474
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: know is confirmed to be twelve women dead from this procedure,

475
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: the Brazilian button left. How common is it with them?

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00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: Fat is taken from parts of your body, say you're

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00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: tummy and put into your rereen. It's grown wildly popular

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00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: in the US. It's the fastest growing type of plastic surgery.

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00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: That's according to stats from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

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Speaker 1: The rate of the procedure rose two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: two percent from two thousand to two fifteen. It went

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Speaker 1: from around a thousand to nearly five thousand procedures over

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Speaker 1: the course of that time. Injecting fat into the rear

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Speaker 1: end can lead to problems if it's done improperly, including

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Speaker 1: a fat embolism when fat enters your bloodstream and blocks

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Speaker 1: a blood vessel. Wow, that's what we know right now,

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00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: and we're giving you examples of for instance, heathern Meadows,

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Speaker 1: Kizzie London, and of course Dania Placincia. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if age has anything to do with it, what the

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00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: risks actually are, but I know this. They make it

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00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: seem so easy. They even put you on a payment

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00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: plan to give me thirty five hundred to five thousand

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00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 1: dollars for a butt lift. But I can guarantee you

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00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: one thing, Dave mac Kim Kardashian did not have her

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00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: butt lift done next to the dollar tree and the

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00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: strip mall. You know, Nancy. As we've been looking over

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00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: the different stories of the they're just so sad. There's

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Speaker 1: a doctor in Florida that has two clinics that because

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00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: of the damage he's doing to women, he's had to

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00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: change the names of his clinics three times over the

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00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: last three years, so that when they see an article

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Speaker 1: about a woman dying at the clinic. He just changes

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00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 1: the name and keeps recruiting ant. They're targeting African American

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00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: and Hispanic young women, and they're targeting with those payment plans.

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00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: So wait, this same guy is changing the name of

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00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: his clinic to get more people there. Yes, ma'am, there's

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00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 1: a doctor named Ishmael Labrador. He's a fifty six year

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00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: old doctor who at one point in time was actually

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00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: suspended from practice because he allowed unlicensed workers to perform

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00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: these cosmetic procedures. He spent years building up this business

511
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: and targeting young women on social media and talking specifically

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00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 1: about you know, body transformation and doing it on a

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00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: payment plan. The business is huge in terms of volume.

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00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: They've got doctors doing eight to ten surgeries a day

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Speaker 1: in these little stripmall clinics next to the you know,

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00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, next to a dollar career or a

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00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: dollar general, and you're going in and having a major

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00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: procedure done by somebody you don't know if they've even

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00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: gone to medical school. Take a listen to what the

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00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: American Society Plastic Surgeons say. This is Diane Mesito on

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00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: ABC's GMA. Thanks to celeb's like Vicki Minaj and Kim

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00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: Kardashian voluptuous booties are in But the American Society of

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00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: Plastic Surgeons has a new and urgent warning about the

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Speaker 1: large number of deaths they say occurred during a procedure

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00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: called the Brazilian butt lift. According to the Society, as

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00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: many as one and three thousand patients die, making this

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00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: potentially more dangerous than any other cosmetic surgery. You have

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Speaker 1: an increase in number of doctors who are attempting to

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00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,479
Speaker 1: perform this procedure, and unfortunately a lot of these doctors

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00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: are not Board certified. The Brazilian butt lift is meant

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00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: to make a rear more shapely. It basically combines liposuction

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00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: with fat grafting, sucking fat from where you don't want it,

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00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 1: like the thighs or stomach, and injecting it where you do.

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00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: But when performed improperly, there's a risk of a fatal

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Speaker 1: fat embolism. Some surgeons are injecting a little bit too deep.

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00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: There's some important veins that bring blood from the lower

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00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: aspect of the legs back into the heart until the lungs.

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Speaker 1: Take a listen to this. His name is Sergio Alvarez,

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00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: and she is going to shadow him as he performs

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Speaker 1: a variety of these procedures. So doctor Alvarez joins us

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Speaker 1: right now. Hello, doctor, Hey, we're good. So explain yourself here.

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00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: How did this happen? Well, I didn't know much about

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00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: her until about two weeks ago when she reached out

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00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: to my office asking to spend some time in the

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Speaker 1: operating room. And I'm really big on education, so I

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00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: didn't really think much about it, and I get a

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00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,919
Speaker 1: lot of requests for people that are interested in medicine. Okay,

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00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: two things, doctor, Why did she pick you? And how

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00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 1: much research did you do on who she is before

550
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: you said yes? If you really didn't know who she was, well,

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00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,879
Speaker 1: I don't. I think she reached out because of my age.

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00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: Most likely I'm kind of on the younger side of

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00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: plastic surgeons, especially here in Miami. Then I found out

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00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,280
Speaker 1: that she was from the area, and I guess maybe

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00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: she has contacts here and no im through my publicist.

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00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: We did some research, and you know, again, I think

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00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: it's it's really important for people to see what we

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00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:51,879
Speaker 1: do and to see the reality. I did it because

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00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: I think what we see on TV and such is

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00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 1: sometimes kind of a very selected part of what we do.

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00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, everybody. That's my friend Harvey Levin at

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00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: TMZ and he is interviewing this guy, doctor Sergio Alvarez,

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00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: the doctor in the Denia, Placincia death. Did I just

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00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 1: hear correctly, David mac He has an intern in the

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00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: operating room who is the star of teen Mom, the

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Speaker 1: one that's had all that plastic surgery. Fear Abraham what.

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Speaker 1: I'm shocked, Nancy, I'm just shocked. I don't even know

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00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: where to begin. This guy is actually going this Instead

569
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Speaker 1: of having a publicist and getting a reality TV star

570
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:51,280
Speaker 1: in his operating room, he should be focusing on his patients.

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00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: That's just to start with. I'm with you. I'm just Nancy.

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00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,479
Speaker 1: I'm speechless. I cannot believe the judgment by this board

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Speaker 1: certified doctor, your doctor Alvarez on the doctors. I want

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00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: to move on to doctor Alvarez, who practices in Miami, Florida.

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00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: And we all know that butts are really big in Miami.

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00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 1: Why is that? Well? I think Miami's known for three things.

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00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: If you were running around on a song, you'd want

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00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: to get your butt done. Last time I said there

579
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: were a lot of thongs. We're definitely known for warm weather,

580
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: hurricanes and big beautiful booties. So you know we do

581
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,439
Speaker 1: we do push the envelope in Miami. I think it's

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00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: the year of the rear as they say, that's right. Well,

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00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: it's not something we commonly do down there, mostly because

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00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: you know, sculpture is a is a temporary filler and

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00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,320
Speaker 1: people want long term results. And also the amount of volume.

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00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: A lot of the volumeization you see today is from

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00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 1: the sailing and where we are looking for long term results.

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00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: Fat is your own. Once it heals, it's with you forever. There.

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00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:55,320
Speaker 1: You hear doctor Sergio Alvarez on the hit show The Doctors,

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00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: what I know, regardless of what is said on TMZ

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00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: by doctor Alvarez, or what is said on the Doctor's

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00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: by doctor Alvarez, or what he posts online, I know

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00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: right now that twelve women that we know of have

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Speaker 1: died of that procedure in that area. That the epidemic

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00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:19,360
Speaker 1: is getting so great that the legislature in Florida is

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00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: an acting legislation surrounding this. As of right now, no

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00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:31,839
Speaker 1: criminal charges have been filed, nor are they expected. It's

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00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: up to each woman to judge for herself what is

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00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: right for her and for her children. Our condolences go

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00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: out to Denia Placincia's family, to the family of Heather Meadows,

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00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:54,280
Speaker 1: to the family of Kizzie London, and so many others,

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00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: so many moms and young women that walk into a

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00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: plastic surgery center and never walk out. Nancy Grace Crimes

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Speaker 1: story signing off goodbye friend,