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SHOCK: Beautiful mom of 3 dead from "Brazilian Butt Lift" · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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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: they would have tried to talk her out of it.
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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: BBL that's her fat is removed from unwanted places and
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Speaker 1: reinjected into a patient's backside. After the procedure, she was
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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: three dies from a Brazilian butt lift in Florida, a
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Speaker 1: procedure where patients are twenty times more likely to die
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Speaker 1: than in any other operation. I mean, see, Grace, this
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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: Michelle Dupree were now medical examiner, author of Homicide Investigation
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Speaker 1: field Guide. Doctor Daniel Bober, forensic psychiatrist and private investigator,
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Speaker 1: former cop, author of Playbook to a Murder. Vincent Hill.
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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: and fifty new felonies every week to prosecute. That's what
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Speaker 1: I was doing, dreaming that being a wife and a
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Speaker 1: mother would never happen to me. To doctor Daniel Boba,
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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: flaw that bothers you or makes you feel insecure, you
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Speaker 1: know what, have at it. But I had no idea
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Speaker 1: a Brazilian butt lift was so dangerous. Why would someone
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Speaker 1: risk everything? You know? Just last night, doctor Bobert, you
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Speaker 1: know how I was talking about. I was talking about
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Speaker 1: Joan Rivers, a dear friend of mine. And when I
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Speaker 1: was with her, we did not talk, we didn't crack jokes.
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Speaker 1: We would talk about raising children. That's what we talked about.
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Speaker 1: And I remember when I first moved to New York
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Speaker 1: to kick off the show with Johnny Cochrane, he was
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Speaker 1: the media darling. I was the bad guy because I
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Speaker 1: was arguing with the star in Cochrane and Grace, So
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Speaker 1: I guess I was the villain. And Joan Rivers had
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Speaker 1: been thrown off Johnny Carson's show and she was starting
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Speaker 1: over and she had a late late night radio show
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Speaker 1: and that's all she had. She had gone from riches
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Speaker 1: to rags, and she invited me across town. It was late,
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Speaker 1: it's like ten o'clock, eleven o'clock at night, and we
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Speaker 1: did an hour live radio show to get other Me
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Speaker 1: and Joan Rivers, and that was the first time I
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Speaker 1: had ever met her. And been around her, and she
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Speaker 1: was just a phenomenal person. When she wasn't cracking jokes,
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Speaker 1: she was so kind and loving and welcoming and warm,
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Speaker 1: and I was really overwhelmed with her. And that started
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Speaker 1: a friendship that lasted many, many years until she went
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Speaker 1: and had some minor plastic surgery, very minor, and died.
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Speaker 1: So in a roundabout way back to my question, doctor Bober,
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Speaker 1: why do people risk everything for plastic surgery? You know, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: you have to realize that if you're going to have
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Speaker 1: a plastic surgery procedure, it's an elective procedure and you're
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Speaker 1: exposing yourself to all the same risks that you would,
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Speaker 1: you know, expose yourself too if it was an appendectim
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Speaker 1: hereare having your appenix move. But I think inherent our
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Speaker 1: culture is so look subsessed that we are afraid that
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Speaker 1: we are flawed in some way. And I think it's
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Speaker 1: propagated by the media that wants us to have a
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Speaker 1: certain image and wants us to have a certain look.
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Speaker 1: And it's even made worse than the millennial generation by
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Speaker 1: all these you know, Instagram filters where people have set
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Speaker 1: an unrealistic standard that they can't possibly measure up to
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Speaker 1: so I literally think that people are willing to accept
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Speaker 1: the risk and risk their lives to achieve a certain
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Speaker 1: look because of the pressure they feel from society. You
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Speaker 1: know what, to risk everything your life, of course, but
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Speaker 1: having your children raised without their mom. Take a listen
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Speaker 1: to our friends at ABC seven. It's exactly what they
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Speaker 1: were done. We don't know, We don't they know, They
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Speaker 1: have to know. A grieving grandfather fired up in demanding answers,
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Speaker 1: speaking out hours after the death of deniaplasins, you're fors
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Speaker 1: All we know is that she went into surgery and
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Speaker 1: she's no longer here with us, and she was perfectly
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Speaker 1: fine this morning. Family members tell seven News the twenty
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Speaker 1: eight year old checked into m a Esthetics in Southwest
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Speaker 1: Miami did for the Mazillian Buttler Friday morning, moving Rome
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Speaker 1: five from the Oblomen through the hips, which she really
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Speaker 1: didn't need. I'm a post to these types of sword kiddies.
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Speaker 1: Her grandfather, who's also a doctor, says all he knows
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Speaker 1: is Dania had a serious medical emergency. After the hour
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Speaker 1: long procedure, she wouldn't blue. He turned blue. She had
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Speaker 1: something really cut us trophy going on the mother of
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Speaker 1: three rushed a Baptist hospital, but unfortunately she wouldn't survive
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Speaker 1: and now were grieving family wants to know what happened
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Speaker 1: to doctor Michelle Dpree, medical examined or author of homicide
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Speaker 1: investigation Field guy. What does that mean, doctor dpree? That
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Speaker 1: she turned blue? Nothing good? I know that much, but
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Speaker 1: I'm just a JD. You're the MD. That's right, Nancy.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't mean anything that Typically, that means that she
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Speaker 1: is suffering from a lack of oxygen, and we see
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Speaker 1: this commonly when they're something like an HITMLISS. In her case,
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Speaker 1: it was a fat en you know. I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: figure out how this whole thing went wrong. How does
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Speaker 1: a mom of three, a perfectly healthy young woman die
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Speaker 1: from a cosmetic procedure. It all went down at about
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Speaker 1: eleven o'clock in the morning on Friday, According to Miami
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Speaker 1: Day Police, they get a call about a woman in
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Speaker 1: distress at MIA Esthetics. Right there, Kenya Johnson, Felony prosecutor.
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Speaker 1: That tells me something very important that she was not
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Speaker 1: in a hospital when she had this procedure done mia Esthetics.
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Speaker 1: That's one of those outpatient clinics. Yes, it sounds like
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Speaker 1: a surgery center. However, they are to follow very strict
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Speaker 1: standards as it relates to how they keep the operating rooms,
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Speaker 1: the people that work in there, and so it's a
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Speaker 1: designed to be a substitute for a hospital facility. It's
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Speaker 1: designed to be much cheaper alternative to having the surgery
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Speaker 1: in a hospital. But oftentimes some of the medical care
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Speaker 1: is compromised. Well, I mean, when you have a life
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Speaker 1: threatening situation, you're not at the hospital. They can't put
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Speaker 1: the paddles on your chest and do all the stuff
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Speaker 1: you see on TV. I mean, I'm on the outside
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Speaker 1: looking in here because I'm not a medical doctor. Take
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Speaker 1: a listen to our friend Walter Mars, ABC seven. This
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Speaker 1: is what mea Esthetics has to say. A rep for
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Speaker 1: m Esthetics saying in a statement, this is the first
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Speaker 1: and only fatality we have endured. Our team is devastated
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Speaker 1: by this tragedy and feels that each and every one
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Speaker 1: of our patients is part of our family. We are
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Speaker 1: constantly evaluating our practices to ensure our patients who received
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Speaker 1: the safest and best care. Despite these practices, serious surgery
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Speaker 1: comes with the risk of rare, unintended and tragic results.
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Speaker 1: We are fully dedicated to investigating why today's tragedy occurred.
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Speaker 1: We will be fully transparent with our patients and with
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Speaker 1: the public as more details emerge. Clime stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 1: Instead of spending Mother's Day weekend celebrating family members with
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Speaker 1: a mother of three planned her funeral. Dania Placentia died
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Speaker 1: after having a Brazilian butt lift procedure. We now know
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Speaker 1: who performed the surgery and what caused her death. Most
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Speaker 1: of Dnaya Placentia's family didn't know she was having cosmetic surgery, Otherwise,
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Speaker 1: they say they would have tried to talk her out
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Speaker 1: of it. You're putting your life on the line, so
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Speaker 1: I just don't think it's worth that. The mother of
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Speaker 1: three young children went to mi Esthetics on Friday morning
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Speaker 1: to have a BBL that's her fat is removed from
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Speaker 1: unwanted places and reinjected into a patient's backside. After the procedure,
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Speaker 1: she was rushed to the hospital where she died. The
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Speaker 1: medical examiner says Placencia died of what's called a fat embolism.
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Speaker 1: That's when a piece of fat gets into the bloodstream
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Speaker 1: and causes a patient to stop breathing of the embolism
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Speaker 1: is a very thing. The NBC six investigators found at
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Speaker 1: least twelve women died of the same cause after the
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Speaker 1: same procedure in our area, different doctors and clinics. A
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Speaker 1: Florida mom undergoes a Brazilian butt lift and ends up dead,
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Speaker 1: according to Miami Dade Police. I'm looking at her right now,
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Speaker 1: Dnia Placentcia, and you know who she looks like, Dave mac.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've taken a good look at
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Speaker 1: her photo. She looks to me like a mixture of
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Speaker 1: Kim Kardashian and Courtney Kardashian. I mean, she's beautiful, Jack,
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Speaker 1: you look at her picture. Look how prittish she is. Wow,
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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: you know how much I respect you. But I don't
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Speaker 1: know if a man could really ever understand the body
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Speaker 1: image issues that women face, because men don't face it.
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Speaker 1: You look in front of a men's magazine, there's a
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Speaker 1: guy standing there in waiters in a fishing pole who
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Speaker 1: cares nobody. But you look at a ladies magazine and
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Speaker 1: there's a woman wearing you know, a little triangle over
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Speaker 1: each nipple and some antal floss. I e a thong.
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Speaker 1: It looks like a Greek goddess, for Pete's sake. And
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Speaker 1: then here I am slogging around the house and my
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Speaker 1: cowboy boots trying to make a sloppy Joe casserole. And
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Speaker 1: I'm supposed to look like that. That is not gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: And the pressure a feeling like that is the goal.
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Speaker 1: It's intense for a lot of people. It's just really
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Speaker 1: I think that's why we have all these eating disorders
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Speaker 1: and young girls because they think they're supposed to look
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Speaker 1: like that. I don't know if men put pressure on
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Speaker 1: women to look a certain way. I don't know that.
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Speaker 1: I'm lucky with my husband David, because he always says, hey,
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Speaker 1: I think you'll look great. I like you better without makeup.
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Speaker 1: You know what. I should marry them all ever again,
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Speaker 1: just for that. But I understand that a lot of
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Speaker 1: people get pressure from within their family to look a
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Speaker 1: certain way. And when I'm looking at her, she's so
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Speaker 1: pretty and she's sitting there on the beach, Actually look
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Speaker 1: at her, Jackie. She's in a bikini, she's got an
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Speaker 1: awesome body, she looks perfect and She's got her two
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Speaker 1: children with her and now they're not going to have her.
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Speaker 1: What is this body obsession? Doctor bober Well, Nancy, This
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Speaker 1: is exactly why low self esteem is rampant in this country,
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Speaker 1: especially among women. I think a lot of it does
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Speaker 1: have to do with the media. And although you know,
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Speaker 1: the media doesn't cause eating disorders, it certainly contributes to it.
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Speaker 1: So you know, you look at her and you see
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Speaker 1: that she's beautiful, but we don't see her the way
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Speaker 1: she saw herself and the way she saw herself with
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Speaker 1: someone that was flawed and needed to fix something. And
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Speaker 1: this pressure may have come from her family and may
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Speaker 1: have come from a magazine or an Internet site. But again,
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Speaker 1: I think the media is largely responsible for propagating what
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Speaker 1: is body dysmorphia. Body dysmorphia is a bodysmorphia is actually
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Speaker 1: a very very rare disorder where people see a certain
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Speaker 1: flaw about themselves in a very disproportionate or exaggerated way.
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Speaker 1: So other people look at them and they don't see
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Speaker 1: it that way, but they continue to fixate on it
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Speaker 1: to the point where it interrupts their daily life functioning.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's that rare. I really don't. I
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Speaker 1: think that every time the majority of women go out
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Speaker 1: to dinner or you know, drive through wherever they look
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Speaker 1: at the calorie count. I don't see my husband looking
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Speaker 1: at the calori account, thank God in heaven, ye ever
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Speaker 1: see a guy check out the calories ever or the
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Speaker 1: fat content. I mean, maybe those people do exist, but
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Speaker 1: not in my world. But I do it, and every
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Speaker 1: woman I know does it, or they refer to m
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Speaker 1: oh I did something bad. I had a dessert like
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Speaker 1: food is bad. And I'm trying to raise Lucy not
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Speaker 1: to think that way. But already get this, Kenya. Already.
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Speaker 1: There's a group of girls at lunchtime at her school
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Speaker 1: that I call very in a loving caring way, the
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Speaker 1: Lettuce Leaf Bunch. And they've been doing this since I
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Speaker 1: know for a fact, since they were nine. They get
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Speaker 1: a pile of lettuce for lunch. That's what they eat
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Speaker 1: at nine years old. That started, and they're still eating
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Speaker 1: lettuce two years later. I believe it. Okay, I want
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Speaker 1: to ask doctor Michelle Dupree this question. What is a
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Speaker 1: fat embolism? Jackie wants to know. I'll pretend I know
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Speaker 1: what is it? Yet embolism is just like a blood
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Speaker 1: clot only it's made of fat instead of itself. And
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Speaker 1: it often happens back to trauma. You can get it
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Speaker 1: from having a broken leg, and certainly when you are
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Speaker 1: doing something like libosection or a butt lift, you're going
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Speaker 1: to traumatize the fat. The fat breaks luth and gets
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Speaker 1: into the blood vessel and clogs it up. And there's more.
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Speaker 1: There's no blood and no oxygen. Okay, I don't even
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Speaker 1: know what you just said. Okay, I can't quote Latin
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Speaker 1: phrases from law school all day into the night. But
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to slow down, doctor Dupree, And it
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Speaker 1: dummy down for me. Guys with me, doctor Michelle Dupree,
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Speaker 1: author of Homicide Investigation Field Guide. And what we're talking
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Speaker 1: about is this gorgeous twenty eight year old mom of three.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the prime of your life. Twenty eight
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Speaker 1: years old, three gorgeous children. She's beautiful, she's healthy, she's
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Speaker 1: living in Miami on the beach. Hello, she's dead. So
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Speaker 1: to Michel dfree, slow it down for dummies like me
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Speaker 1: and explain to me what you just said. Okay, A
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Speaker 1: fat embolism is like a blood clot only it's made
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Speaker 1: of fat cells, which means fat breaks away from your tissue.
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Speaker 1: Either by trauma such as something like a libus suction
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Speaker 1: or a butt lift, or even a fracture of a
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Speaker 1: bone can cause this fat to break away. It escapes
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Speaker 1: into the bloods and prevents the blood from going further,
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Speaker 1: therefore not carrying oxygen to the places that are needed.
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Speaker 1: So the person then has an embolist, which is this
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Speaker 1: fat particle that prevents oxygenation. Wait, I thought it was
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Speaker 1: when a fat particle breaks loose and just goes to
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Speaker 1: your heart or your brain and causes everything to stop.
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Speaker 1: It can go to several places, and yes, it does
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Speaker 1: break loose, and but it's inside of a blood vessel
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Speaker 1: when it does such, and it goes to your heart
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Speaker 1: or to the arteries that supply your heart, or to
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Speaker 1: your lung. So it's not that the fat particle travels
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Speaker 1: to your heart and makes your heart stop beating, or
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Speaker 1: travels to your brain and your brain stops functioning. It's
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Speaker 1: that the fat particle gets stuck in your vein and
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Speaker 1: oxygen doesn't flow. That's an embolism. Yes, that's exactly right.
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Speaker 1: So that's why she turned blue. Oxygen was not going
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Speaker 1: to her body. That's right, okay. And I really like
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Speaker 1: the way you slowed down and talked like this to me.
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Speaker 1: You know, I have to do that to my husband
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Speaker 1: all the time. I wonder why so resentful guys? We're
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Speaker 1: talking about to Neoplacincia, a gorgeous young woman now dead
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Speaker 1: after Brazilian buttleft at an accredited facility. And she's not
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Speaker 1: the only one. Clime stories with Nancy Grace. At Jolie
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Speaker 1: Plastic Surgery on Southwest sid Street, a patient died Thursday
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Speaker 1: from complications during a cosmetic procedure, a butt augmentation. Kissie
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Speaker 1: London came from Louisiana, as many patients do, apparently looking
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Speaker 1: for a low cost fix. We were turned away at
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Speaker 1: the clinic. You guys leave please, okay? Well, I don't
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Speaker 1: have anything to say, Fire Rescue says. London died after
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Speaker 1: going into respiratory and cardiac arrest during her surgery. The clinic,
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Speaker 1: like many others, is located in a sprawling strip mall
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Speaker 1: with businesses including this animal clinic. Doctor Arnaldo Valls performed
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Speaker 1: the surgery Thursday. He performs procedures at several storefront clin
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Speaker 1: next In addition to Jolie plastic surgery center. The husband
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Speaker 1: of the woman who died Thursday was picking up her
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Speaker 1: personal effects Friday. I don't know what happened, Like right now,
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Speaker 1: I can't tell I don't know what happened. That's our
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Speaker 1: friend Gary Nelson and CBS four in Miami talking about
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Speaker 1: yet another woman who travels from Louisiana to Miami for
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Speaker 1: the same procedure. It's called a butt augmentation. A Brazilian
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Speaker 1: butt left. Listen, she came to South Florida from Louisiana.
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Speaker 1: But Kizzie London, a mother of two, won't ever get
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Speaker 1: the chance to go home. They brought it in. He said, well,
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Speaker 1: she was dead. What she got here? I say, they
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Speaker 1: didn't temp me that. They told me she was all right.
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Speaker 1: London's husband, Richard, lost his wife Thursday after she had
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Speaker 1: a cosmetic procedure at this plastic surgery center in West
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Speaker 1: Miami Dade. All the time, these police was out of here.
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Speaker 1: And you didn't call me, Dan when all this was
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Speaker 1: gone on. You wait until she got to the hospital.
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Speaker 1: At the forty year old London was rushed to Kendall
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Speaker 1: Regional after she went into cardiac arrest on the operating table.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Arnaldo Valls releasing this statement to seven. It reads,
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Speaker 1: in part quote, all standard preoperative procedures were administered. The
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Speaker 1: patient developed cardiac arrest towards the end of the operation
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Speaker 1: and immediate resuscitation efforts were taken, followed by a call
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Speaker 1: to nine one one. The paramedics arrived and the patient
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Speaker 1: was transferred to a nearby hospital. I didn't come up
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Speaker 1: in a curebac of the bos. London's family flew in
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Speaker 1: from Louisiana Friday, wanting answers provision, but longer leaving at
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Speaker 1: the blood all on the baccahadrest. Doctor Valls says he's
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Speaker 1: been practicing for forty years his place of work, adding
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Speaker 1: with thousands of surgeries under his surgical expertise, doctor Valls
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Speaker 1: has kept a clean record of no losses. The incident
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Speaker 1: has impacted him greatly, and he sends prayers to the
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Speaker 1: loved ones of the patients on here yesterday. And I
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Speaker 1: seem and normals of women coming in and out of
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Speaker 1: him man, And I'm just saying, walked in and out
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Speaker 1: of him, and my wife didn't walk out of you.
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Speaker 1: Our friends at Channel seven, more than I can take
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Speaker 1: in the way he's describing women going in and out
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Speaker 1: and in and out of a strip mall plastic surgery
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Speaker 1: clinic to Davy Matt Syndicated, a talk show host joining us.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about Denia Placencia, twenty eight year old mom
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Speaker 1: of three. You just heard about Kizzie London, a mother
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Speaker 1: of two and more. Tell me about it, Dave mac
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Speaker 1: are all these clinics like in strip malls. Something about
22:39
Speaker 1: going into a strip mall to get a serious surgery
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Speaker 1: where you're put under general anesthesia and you're right next
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Speaker 1: to the dollar tree and the pet grooming. Something seems
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Speaker 1: wrong about that, Dave Matt. Nancy, I'm so glad you
22:54
Speaker 1: brought that up, because here's there are comparisons here. But
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Speaker 1: Denia Placentcia, she actually was in a Mia Aesthetics, which
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Speaker 1: is a real clinic with an actual certified plastic surgeon
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Speaker 1: and everything else. But these others, Okay, we're talking strip malls,
23:08
Speaker 1: but she in a hospital. Okay, then you want to
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Speaker 1: tell me that because it's a nice building, somehow that
23:17
Speaker 1: makes it more safe. I don't know, maybe it does,
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Speaker 1: but you've got a go ahead. Yeah. The difference, well,
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Speaker 1: the difference is this in the case of Dania Placentia.
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Speaker 1: The guy was actually medically supervised I mean plastic surgeon
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Speaker 1: who actually was board certified with a facility that was
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Speaker 1: okayed by the state. Florida is actually changing its laws
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Speaker 1: so this crap stops happening. But even if all those
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Speaker 1: laws are enacted, that MIA Esthetics would still be open
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Speaker 1: because it meets all the criteria by these new laws.
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Speaker 1: These other issues. The doctor who did Kidzie London, he
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Speaker 1: was a family doc named doctor Arnaldo Valls. This is
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Speaker 1: the guy who is not board certified in any specialty,
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Speaker 1: carries no medical malpractice insurance, and he's operating in a
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Speaker 1: strip mall. That's what a lot of these bogus plays are.
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Speaker 1: They're doctors who are not qualified, they're not board certified,
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Speaker 1: and they're just running women in and out because they
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Speaker 1: see these pictures on Instagram and they want to look
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Speaker 1: like the stars, and they're taking advantage of these women
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Speaker 1: and they're ill prepared to do the surgeries that they're
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Speaker 1: doing to doctor Daniel Bober or forensic psychiatrist. Again, no
24:17
Speaker 1: offense doctor Bober, but I don't know how a man
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Speaker 1: can relate to the pressure put on women. But typically
24:23
Speaker 1: when I'm upset or frustrated. I come out fighting, but
24:28
Speaker 1: at this moment I kind of feel like crying because
24:31
Speaker 1: I think of women who are pressured to look a
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Speaker 1: certain way and they die, and they exercise and they
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Speaker 1: torture themselves and they try and it doesn't work. So
24:44
Speaker 1: they can't afford certain doctors, so they go to these
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Speaker 1: so called clinics and they come out, like the husband said,
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Speaker 1: with blood on their clothes, and they die. And it
24:57
Speaker 1: just seems so wrong to me that women feel like
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Speaker 1: they have to look a certain way, and then to
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Speaker 1: attain that goal, they die. They're willing to undergo barbaric
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Speaker 1: procedures really to look a certain way to fit in.
25:19
Speaker 1: I can't really verbalize it. You're a shrink, Bober. It's true, Nancy.
25:24
Speaker 1: And you know I'm gonna tell you. I'm also a
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Speaker 1: child psychiatrist too. I'm also afford certified child psychiatrists, and
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Speaker 1: I can tell you that some of the research shows
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Speaker 1: that if you're a parent with a child, especially a
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Speaker 1: female child, even one conversation, just one conversation where you
25:38
Speaker 1: tell the child that they're fat or they eat too much,
25:40
Speaker 1: can lead to an eating disorder for life. So as
25:44
Speaker 1: someone who's a parent, any parent out there, it's very
25:47
Speaker 1: important when you talk to your children to make sure
25:49
Speaker 1: you're talking to them about health and wellness and not appearance,
25:53
Speaker 1: because it can really damage their self esteem and it
25:55
Speaker 1: can really carry all the way through their life. Dave
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Speaker 1: Matt what about criminal charges in the case of denia placentia.
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Speaker 1: In the case of denia placentia, there are not going
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Speaker 1: to be any charges filed. I don't think, Nancy. I've
26:06
Speaker 1: been looking over this because the actual surgery that took place,
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Speaker 1: everything was covered based on how their medical clinic is
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Speaker 1: set up. It's just you mentioned this earlier. Why are
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Speaker 1: women willing to risk their lives to have this done there?
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Speaker 1: I don't I can't explain it. But in this particular case,
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Speaker 1: this clinic actually meets the criteria with a certified doctor
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Speaker 1: and everything else. I don't see a charge governing, you know.
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Speaker 1: To Kenya Johnson, Atlanta felony prosecutor, I wouldn't call it
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Speaker 1: so quickly. I'd have to make sure that every t
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Speaker 1: was crossed, every eye was dotted, before I counted out
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Speaker 1: the possibility of criminal charges. If there were criminal charges,
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Speaker 1: Kenya Johnson, what could it be reckless? Homicide. That would
26:54
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
27:04
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
27:15
Speaker 1: criminal intent can be derived from gross negligence. And so
27:20
Speaker 1: we are looking at possibly voluntary manslaughter because they acted
27:24
Speaker 1: in a way purposefully. However it was gross and misconduct
27:28
Speaker 1: and then involuntary and that they didn't intend for the
27:32
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,
27:42
Speaker 1: and any negligence that results is from those operations. So
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Speaker 1: Vincent Hill, private investigator, a former co author a playbook
27:49
Speaker 1: to a murder vinca, this is tricky. How do you
27:52
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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Speaker 1: because keep in mind here the victims went to this
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Speaker 1: clinic willingly. The intent was I guess, a good act
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Speaker 1: if you will, because they were going there to enhance themselves,
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Speaker 1: and you know, the people performing these surgery. They were
28:14
Speaker 1: trying to fulfill the victims wishes here, so it is
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Speaker 1: tricky to come up on criminal charges. But I think
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Speaker 1: it goes to a bigger point, Nancy, that you've been
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Speaker 1: touching on. We're in a society now, especially in social media,
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Speaker 1: where you have to look a certain way. I have
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Speaker 1: a friend who's a plus size model who told me
28:31
Speaker 1: the other day she's upset she only has like five
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Speaker 1: thousand followers, but she sees other people with like five
28:38
Speaker 1: hundred thousand followers. So it speaks to this bigger issue
28:41
Speaker 1: of we have to get out of that mindset that
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Speaker 1: you have to look a certain way to please a
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Speaker 1: certain demographic, or to please the world for that matter.
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Heather Meadows traveled from her
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Speaker 1: home in West Virginia to South Florida to get a
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Speaker 1: better body. She had just given birth to her second child,
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Speaker 1: and her best friend says she wanted to feel good
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Speaker 1: about herself. This was solely something that she wanted to
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Speaker 1: do for herself to make herself feel better. We talked
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Speaker 1: to her longtime friends Susanna Wilson through FaceTime. She was
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Speaker 1: the last to talk to Meadows minutes before her surgery.
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Speaker 1: What did she say to you? She was scared. This
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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
29:36
Speaker 1: she loved me, and those were our last words, whereas
29:39
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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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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Speaker 1: at ABC six in Miami that number eight we now
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Speaker 1: know is confirmed to be twelve women dead from this procedure,
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Speaker 1: the Brazilian button left. How common is it with them?
30:06
Speaker 1: Fat is taken from parts of your body, say you're
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Speaker 1: tummy and put into your rereen. It's grown wildly popular
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Speaker 1: in the US. It's the fastest growing type of plastic surgery.
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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
30:49
Speaker 1: a blood vessel. Wow, that's what we know right now,
30:53
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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Speaker 1: risks actually are, but I know this. They make it
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Speaker 1: seem so easy. They even put you on a payment
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Speaker 1: plan to give me thirty five hundred to five thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars for a butt lift. But I can guarantee you
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Speaker 1: one thing, Dave mac Kim Kardashian did not have her
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Speaker 1: butt lift done next to the dollar tree and the
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Speaker 1: strip mall. You know, Nancy. As we've been looking over
31:28
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
31:35
Speaker 1: of the damage he's doing to women, he's had to
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Speaker 1: change the names of his clinics three times over the
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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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Speaker 1: the name and keeps recruiting ant. They're targeting African American
31:51
Speaker 1: and Hispanic young women, and they're targeting with those payment plans.
31:54
Speaker 1: So wait, this same guy is changing the name of
31:57
Speaker 1: his clinic to get more people there. Yes, ma'am, there's
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Speaker 1: a doctor named Ishmael Labrador. He's a fifty six year
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Speaker 1: old doctor who at one point in time was actually
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Speaker 1: suspended from practice because he allowed unlicensed workers to perform
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Speaker 1: these cosmetic procedures. He spent years building up this business
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Speaker 1: and targeting young women on social media and talking specifically
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Speaker 1: about you know, body transformation and doing it on a
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Speaker 1: payment plan. The business is huge in terms of volume.
32:24
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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Speaker 1: as you mentioned, next to a dollar career or a
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Speaker 1: dollar general, and you're going in and having a major
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Speaker 1: procedure done by somebody you don't know if they've even
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Speaker 1: gone to medical school. Take a listen to what the
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Speaker 1: American Society Plastic Surgeons say. This is Diane Mesito on
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Speaker 1: ABC's GMA. Thanks to celeb's like Vicki Minaj and Kim
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Speaker 1: Kardashian voluptuous booties are in But the American Society of
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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
32:57
Speaker 1: called the Brazilian butt lift. According to the Society, as
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Speaker 1: many as one and three thousand patients die, making this
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Speaker 1: potentially more dangerous than any other cosmetic surgery. You have
33:08
Speaker 1: an increase in number of doctors who are attempting to
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Speaker 1: perform this procedure, and unfortunately a lot of these doctors
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Speaker 1: are not Board certified. The Brazilian butt lift is meant
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Speaker 1: to make a rear more shapely. It basically combines liposuction
33:22
Speaker 1: with fat grafting, sucking fat from where you don't want it,
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Speaker 1: like the thighs or stomach, and injecting it where you do.
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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.
33:35
Speaker 1: There's some important veins that bring blood from the lower
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Speaker 1: aspect of the legs back into the heart until the lungs.
33:42
Speaker 1: Take a listen to this. His name is Sergio Alvarez,
33:46
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.
34:00
Speaker 1: How did this happen? Well, I didn't know much about
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Speaker 1: her until about two weeks ago when she reached out
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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
34:13
Speaker 1: didn't really think much about it, and I get a
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Speaker 1: lot of requests for people that are interested in medicine. Okay,
34:19
Speaker 1: two things, doctor, Why did she pick you? And how
34:22
Speaker 1: much research did you do on who she is before
34:24
Speaker 1: you said yes? If you really didn't know who she was, well,
34:28
Speaker 1: I don't. I think she reached out because of my age.
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Speaker 1: Most likely I'm kind of on the younger side of
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Speaker 1: plastic surgeons, especially here in Miami. Then I found out
34:38
Speaker 1: that she was from the area, and I guess maybe
34:40
Speaker 1: she has contacts here and no im through my publicist.
34:45
Speaker 1: We did some research, and you know, again, I think
34:47
Speaker 1: it's it's really important for people to see what we
34:49
Speaker 1: do and to see the reality. I did it because
34:51
Speaker 1: I think what we see on TV and such is
34:54
Speaker 1: sometimes kind of a very selected part of what we do.
34:58
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, everybody. That's my friend Harvey Levin at
35:04
Speaker 1: TMZ and he is interviewing this guy, doctor Sergio Alvarez,
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Speaker 1: the doctor in the Denia, Placincia death. Did I just
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Speaker 1: hear correctly, David mac He has an intern in the
35:24
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.
35:33
Speaker 1: I'm shocked, Nancy, I'm just shocked. I don't even know
35:38
Speaker 1: where to begin. This guy is actually going this Instead
35:41
Speaker 1: of having a publicist and getting a reality TV star
35:46
Speaker 1: in his operating room, he should be focusing on his patients.
35:51
Speaker 1: That's just to start with. I'm with you. I'm just Nancy.
35:55
Speaker 1: I'm speechless. I cannot believe the judgment by this board
35:58
Speaker 1: certified doctor, your doctor Alvarez on the doctors. I want
36:02
Speaker 1: to move on to doctor Alvarez, who practices in Miami, Florida.
36:06
Speaker 1: And we all know that butts are really big in Miami.
36:09
Speaker 1: Why is that? Well? I think Miami's known for three things.
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Speaker 1: If you were running around on a song, you'd want
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Speaker 1: to get your butt done. Last time I said there
36:19
Speaker 1: were a lot of thongs. We're definitely known for warm weather,
36:22
Speaker 1: hurricanes and big beautiful booties. So you know we do
36:26
Speaker 1: we do push the envelope in Miami. I think it's
36:28
Speaker 1: the year of the rear as they say, that's right. Well,
36:32
Speaker 1: it's not something we commonly do down there, mostly because
36:34
Speaker 1: you know, sculpture is a is a temporary filler and
36:37
Speaker 1: people want long term results. And also the amount of volume.
36:41
Speaker 1: A lot of the volumeization you see today is from
36:43
Speaker 1: the sailing and where we are looking for long term results.
36:46
Speaker 1: Fat is your own. Once it heals, it's with you forever. There.
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Speaker 1: You hear doctor Sergio Alvarez on the hit show The Doctors,
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Speaker 1: what I know, regardless of what is said on TMZ
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Speaker 1: by doctor Alvarez, or what is said on the Doctor's
37:03
Speaker 1: by doctor Alvarez, or what he posts online, I know
37:06
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
37:14
Speaker 1: is getting so great that the legislature in Florida is
37:19
Speaker 1: an acting legislation surrounding this. As of right now, no
37:24
Speaker 1: criminal charges have been filed, nor are they expected. It's
37:31
Speaker 1: up to each woman to judge for herself what is
37:36
Speaker 1: right for her and for her children. Our condolences go
37:42
Speaker 1: out to Denia Placincia's family, to the family of Heather Meadows,
37:49
Speaker 1: to the family of Kizzie London, and so many others,
37:54
Speaker 1: so many moms and young women that walk into a
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Speaker 1: plastic surgery center and never walk out. Nancy Grace Crimes
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Speaker 1: story signing off goodbye friend,