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Three US moms' deadly plastic surgery, South of the Border · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Three gorgeous young women moms as a matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: one of them in particular, leaving behind two children, one
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Speaker 1: age one and one age thirteen, growing out, growing up
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Speaker 1: now without their mother. Why for beauty? For beauty at
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Speaker 1: the hands of a doctor that had no idea what
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Speaker 1: he was doing? How many more are out there? A
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Speaker 1: lot of people think it all started right here? Listen?
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Speaker 1: Did Kim Kardashian officially break the internet? The infamous reality
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Speaker 1: star took to her Instagram to share her provocative cover
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Speaker 1: photos for Paper Magazines twenty fourteen Winner issue, taken by
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Speaker 1: famed French photographer Jean Paul Gooday. One photo shows Kim
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Speaker 1: exposing her bear oiled up boutet, Kim's most well known asset,
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Speaker 1: while the other features her fully clothed balancing a champagne
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Speaker 1: glass on her end table. And they say I didn't
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Speaker 1: have talent, Kim captioned, Try balancing a champagne glass on
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Speaker 1: your ass Lol. Maybe it was funny to somebody at
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Speaker 1: the time, but it's not funny right now you're hearing.
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Speaker 1: Reporter Danny hoyt At celebified that seemed to set a
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Speaker 1: trend not only across the country, but across the world.
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Speaker 1: No offense to Kim Kardashian, who's I'm sure an excellent
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Speaker 1: business person, but the desire to look like her to
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Speaker 1: quote break the Internet, take a listen to our friends
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Speaker 1: an inside edition. She works as a registered nurse, but
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Speaker 1: when Stephanie Alcala sheds her scrubs, the Miami native says
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Speaker 1: she's unhappy with the size and shape of her butt.
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Speaker 1: I want the production. The twenty five year old knows
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Speaker 1: what she wants, a voluptuous booty like Kim Kardashian. Stephanie
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Speaker 1: has tried all sorts of butt enhancing exercises to no avail. Now,
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Speaker 1: Nurse Stephanie has decided to get butt lift surgery, and
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Speaker 1: you won't believe how she's doing it. Stephanie is doubling
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Speaker 1: down on fatty foods, fat is the new gold and
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Speaker 1: plastic surgery. Miami cosmetic surgeon doctor Constantino Mendietta says he's
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Speaker 1: seen an eighty five percent increased demand for butt lift surgery,
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Speaker 1: all due to Kim Kardashian. When you're looking here, where's
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Speaker 1: your eye focusing? What do you like this projection right here?
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Speaker 1: You want to go big? Yes? I want to go big.
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Speaker 1: When Stephanie weighs in, she saw that she gained twelve
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Speaker 1: pounds of fat. That little s curve. Look at that,
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Speaker 1: that is what's gorgeous on her. Doctor Mendietta marks the
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Speaker 1: fat rich deposits that will be harvested to create that
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Speaker 1: Kim k butt. Before I introduced to you an all
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Speaker 1: star panel, including the mother of one of the plastic
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Speaker 1: surgery victims, I want to first go to doctor Bethany Marshall,
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Speaker 1: psychoanalyst joining me out of La Psychoanalysts to the stars,
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Speaker 1: and star of a new Netflix program, Bling Empire. You
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Speaker 1: can find her at doctor Bethany Marshall dot com Doctor Bethany.
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Speaker 1: When I was listening to the first bit of sound
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Speaker 1: we were hearing, and I was thinking about when Kim
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Speaker 1: Kardashian quote broke the Internet with that picture. I can't
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Speaker 1: really remember it, but I kind of remember. It looked
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Speaker 1: like she was sitting in a champagne glass. I can't
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Speaker 1: quite recall, but it was all about her naked booty
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Speaker 1: and it sent waves ripple effects through the plastic surgery industry,
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Speaker 1: and it made so many people want to look like her.
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Speaker 1: What is it about people's lives? That they want to
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Speaker 1: look different. And I'm not knocking it. I want everyone
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Speaker 1: to feel good about themselves. But what is why would
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Speaker 1: you want to look like somebody else? Nancy. Is such
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Speaker 1: a complex question because it's motivated by multiple factors. Some
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Speaker 1: people just want to look better, and we have that
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Speaker 1: option today with sastic surgery. But when somebody like Kim Kardashian,
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Speaker 1: who she jokes, you know, and you say I don't
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Speaker 1: have talent, In fact, she's an everyday person who became
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Speaker 1: so rich and so famous, and plastic surgery helped to
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Speaker 1: facilitate that, and I think it's what it does is
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Speaker 1: that fosters a desire in ordinary, everyday women to be
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Speaker 1: to inject themselves into her notoriety, to be rich and
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Speaker 1: famous like her, to have the fantasy that if I
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Speaker 1: had a big garrier, I might be rich. And amos too.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we are wired to be copycats. That's in
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Speaker 1: a way, you know, part of our whole learning is
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Speaker 1: that we emulate our parents and we emulate the people
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Speaker 1: around us as we're growing up. And so there's another aspect, though, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: is that sometimes we don't want to live in reality.
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Speaker 1: We have a preference for delusions and fantasies, and people
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Speaker 1: easily have this delusion, the bigger my butt, the richer
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Speaker 1: I'll be, the bigger my butt, that the more famous
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Speaker 1: I'll be, the bigger my butt, the more people will
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Speaker 1: love me and look up to me. And I think
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Speaker 1: that's another aspect. Really Briefly, I've had a couple come
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Speaker 1: to therapy in Beverly Hills recently because the husband's mad
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Speaker 1: at the wife. First of all, you don't have to
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Speaker 1: be brief, Okay, I want to hear the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: And plus you were talking set fast. I couldn't understand
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Speaker 1: what you were saying. I'm sorry, go ahead, what about
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Speaker 1: a husband. A couple came to therapy in my bever
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Speaker 1: Hills office because the wife, who actually happens to be
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Speaker 1: a famous singer, keeps wanting to get her but bigger, bigger,
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Speaker 1: and bigger and bigger, and she cannot stop, and she
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Speaker 1: looks distorted, and it's so sad. And I look at
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Speaker 1: pictures of her when she was younger, she was slender
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Speaker 1: and gorgeous and youthful. And now all you notice, please
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Speaker 1: do not say slender and gorgeous other little girls that
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Speaker 1: ate nothing. But let us at lunch. I started calling
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Speaker 1: him to let us life bunch, get it, let us bunch.
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Speaker 1: And that's all that eight that was in the fourth grade.
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Speaker 1: How old are you in the fourth grade? Looked ten
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Speaker 1: and they're still doing it. They're this big, poor little things.
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Speaker 1: And I don't think slender necessarily is gorgeous. But that's
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Speaker 1: just me. Okay, don go ahead, if you think about it,
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Speaker 1: think about it. I just did it. I engaged in
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Speaker 1: the delusion. If you're slender, you're beautiful. So you are
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Speaker 1: here comparing it to your clients now distorted behind guys
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Speaker 1: with me was Psychoanalyst to the Stars, Bethany Marshall. But
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Speaker 1: let me bring in the rest of our guests. And
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Speaker 1: I haven't even gotten to tell you what happened in
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Speaker 1: the case yet. First of all, Emmy Award winning investigative
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Speaker 1: reporter Chrissie Mazourk is with US Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University,
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Speaker 1: author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon, It's bestseller,
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Speaker 1: and start of a brand new program called Poisous Liaisons
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Speaker 1: on the True Crime Network. Death investigator Joe Scott Morgan,
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Speaker 1: doctor Katherine Hanna. She's a Board certified plastic Surgeon, Professor
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Speaker 1: Plastic Surgery, Georgetown. That's not shabby. And you can find
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Speaker 1: her at we stand Plastic Surgery dot com, on Insta
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Speaker 1: and Twitter at doctor Hannah dc Oh. I can't wait
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Speaker 1: to hear what she's got to say. Of course, you know,
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Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany Marshall. Gary Davidson a special guest joining us
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Speaker 1: partner with diad diaz Reius International Law Firm at diaz
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Speaker 1: Raius dot com, joining us out of Miami and our
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Speaker 1: special guests joining us right now. This is Keana Weaver's mother,
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Speaker 1: Renee Weaver. Miss Weaver, let me start with you tell
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Speaker 1: me about your daughter Keanna. She has these beautiful children,
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Speaker 1: ages one and thirteen. When did you learn she wanted
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Speaker 1: to have plastic surgery? It was a it was I
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Speaker 1: have seen her one day, uh uh. A friend had
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Speaker 1: parents right and her and her her and her real
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Speaker 1: close friend. They was talking about they was going to
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Speaker 1: get some work done. So basically, really I thought nothing
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Speaker 1: else of it. I just went so, you know, went
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Speaker 1: on about my is okay, whatever, how you gonna pay
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Speaker 1: for it? Clime Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, we're talking
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Speaker 1: about three beautiful women that have suffered horribly because of
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Speaker 1: plastic surgery. Keana Weaver, gorgeous, young mom in her thirties
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Speaker 1: and with me it is her mother, Renee right now, Renee,
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Speaker 1: what were you saying, Miss Weaver? It's all about the
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Speaker 1: confidence I think that a person having themselves because it's
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm the type of person and my daughter
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Speaker 1: was the type of person. Okay, we don't have, but
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Speaker 1: I learned. I've learned to live with it. I guess
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Speaker 1: there's something she couldn't live with. And the thing of
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Speaker 1: it is is when somebody makes you feel so bad
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Speaker 1: about yourself that you will gold and you would do
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Speaker 1: something like that. I don't understand, you know to doctor
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Speaker 1: Catherine Hannah, Board Certify Plastic Surgery and Professor or Plastic
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Speaker 1: Surgery at Georgetown, Doctor Hannah, thank you so much for
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Speaker 1: being with us. Sometimes plastic surgery many times makes a
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Speaker 1: person feel great, as Miss Weaver was just telling us,
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Speaker 1: they feel more confident. For instance, you think your nose
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Speaker 1: is too big, well, you know what, you get it fixed.
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Speaker 1: You feel great and other people may not even notice
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Speaker 1: that you've had it done. It may be so subtle,
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Speaker 1: but you feel great about it. And of course they're
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Speaker 1: all those cases, Doctor Hannon. For instance, when women have mysectomies,
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Speaker 1: they need extensive plastic surgery to feel like they look
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Speaker 1: like they did before. So plastic surgery can be a
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Speaker 1: wonderful thing for a lot of people. Do you think
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Speaker 1: patients come in for the wrong reasons? Actually they do
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Speaker 1: most part. However, we have to as plastic surgeons do
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Speaker 1: a better job of establishing goals. Most do a great job.
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Speaker 1: If a patient has realistic goals, they can't fill out
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Speaker 1: a broth. They feel uncomfortable in a bathing suit, for instance,
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Speaker 1: because you know, they feel their chest is not proportionate
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Speaker 1: to their lower half of their body or their moms
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Speaker 1: and they've had skin stretching and muscle stretching from having children.
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Speaker 1: They want to be able to fit better in pants.
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Speaker 1: And I think if we have realistic expectations, plastic surgery
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Speaker 1: can be wonderful again, provided that it's in skilled hands
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Speaker 1: with some who knows what they're doing. Unfortunately, a lot
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Speaker 1: of our patients do come to us with pictures on
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Speaker 1: Instagram or magazine pictures of celebrities saying they want a
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Speaker 1: certain goal or certain outcome, or want to look like
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Speaker 1: a certain celebrity, and that's just not a good place
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Speaker 1: to start. No, two bodies are the same, and it's
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Speaker 1: really impossible to achieve that in many circumstances, Nor is
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Speaker 1: it the right thing to do. My job is to
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Speaker 1: make the patients feel better, look better, but still be
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Speaker 1: themselves and just a more confident version of themselves more
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Speaker 1: sometimes if it's the face, a more rested version of themselves,
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Speaker 1: so that, you know, plastic surgery should be secondary. They
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Speaker 1: still feel like themselves at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: not just a bigger behind that they're walking around with. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I keep looking at Keana Weaver. Guys, keyana mother
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Speaker 1: is with us, chrisy, I'm going to get to you.
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Speaker 1: In one set called on Renee Weaver, Keiana's mother is
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Speaker 1: with us. Miss Weaver, you said, oh golly, I'm looking
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Speaker 1: at a T shirt now with her picture in it.
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Speaker 1: After she passed. You said, she when when some people
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Speaker 1: feel so bad about themselves they get plastic surgery? Did
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Speaker 1: your daughter feel that way? No? I didn't let me
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Speaker 1: rephrase it, okay, because I mean, I'm looking at her.
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Speaker 1: She's just gorgeous. I can't imagine her feeling bad about herself.
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Speaker 1: I didn't no. I mean far as not her feeling
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Speaker 1: bad about herself, but her want to change right the
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Speaker 1: way God made her. If you don't have no butt,
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Speaker 1: so be it. You don't have no But I don't
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Speaker 1: have no butt, and I'm fine with it, and I
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Speaker 1: want to balance it out because you know, one of
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Speaker 1: the first do you remember, guys um do you remember this,
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Speaker 1: doctor Bethany, those pictures of children that have cleugh palates.
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Speaker 1: It's called the Smile Train, and they're children from all
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Speaker 1: over the world that can't get plastic surgery and they
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Speaker 1: suffer this really difficult issue. Is a cless palette, and
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Speaker 1: Smile Train pays for I think a pretty Actually, let
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Speaker 1: me ask doctor Hanson, Doctor Hannon, isn't that a relatively
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Speaker 1: simple surgery to fix that so the child won't have
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Speaker 1: a disfigurement. So Smile Train and operations Smile. There's lots
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Speaker 1: of other organizations that they actually travel to other countries
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Speaker 1: that don't have sufficient resources to do the surgeries. So
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Speaker 1: there's two parts Usually to that. One is the lip right,
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Speaker 1: so repairing the lip, and that is usually done in
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Speaker 1: small children, and the problem is that they need anesthesia
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Speaker 1: for that. They're not going to sit still while we
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Speaker 1: inject just numbing medicine for ends, right, But it's it's
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Speaker 1: a really bad disfigurement for a child to grow up
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Speaker 1: with on your face. So there's so many good things
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Speaker 1: about plastic surgery that I don't want to negate that.
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Speaker 1: But you know, let me go to Christie Missouri Emmy
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Speaker 1: Award winning investigative reporter. I've got three ladies here who
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Speaker 1: suffered at the hands of let me just say a butcher,
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Speaker 1: what happened. Well, now all of these procedures are drawing
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Speaker 1: attention to this clinic in Tijuana, Well, Tiahuana. They went
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Speaker 1: all the way to Tiahuanahuai call savings. Yes, okay, but
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Speaker 1: obviously their bargain procedure was not what they bargained for.
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Speaker 1: As mentioned by miss Weaver, you know, her daughter died
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Speaker 1: on the table, her friend Kenesia Davis suffered internal bleeding,
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Speaker 1: and a third lady, as Maralda Iniguez, suffered kidney failure.
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Speaker 1: Now people are looking into this art Soilhouette Esthetic Surgery
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Speaker 1: Clinic and its director, doctor Jesus Manuel Bayez Lopez. Boy,
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Speaker 1: does he have things all over social media? What do
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Speaker 1: you mean? Things all over social media. Well, this isn't
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Speaker 1: the first time that this gentleman's activities have been called
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Speaker 1: into question. He's been on the topic of message boards,
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Speaker 1: people sometimes questioning if he does actually have the medical
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Speaker 1: back and heaven and these three unsuspected women mothers. Now,
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Speaker 1: we've got children without a mother to get a Kim
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Speaker 1: Kardashian rear in with a guy who is not a
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Speaker 1: board certified plastic surgeon. To my understanding, doctor Jesus Lopez
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Speaker 1: operated on all three women. And we're talking about death,
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Speaker 1: septic shot, kidney failure, renal failure. WHOA okay? But why
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Speaker 1: travel all the way to Tiajuana. Guys, take a listen
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Speaker 1: to our friends at crime online dot com. Keana Weaver
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Speaker 1: tells her mother she is going to Florida for lipa
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Speaker 1: section and a tummy tuck. But this thirty eight year
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Speaker 1: old mother of two and a friend go to Tijuana, Mexico,
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Speaker 1: for the procedures are less expensive than in the US.
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Speaker 1: Nurse Kenecia Davis is having a procedure done the same day.
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Speaker 1: Something goes wrong with Weaver's procedure and she dies on
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Speaker 1: the operating table. Davis is taken to a hotel room
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Speaker 1: to recover. After learning that Weaver has died, Davis's husband
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Speaker 1: takes her home to California. Davis said she began bleeding
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Speaker 1: internally and projectile vomiting, eventually requiring an ambulance ride to
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Speaker 1: the er and a two week hospitalization. The hospital told
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Speaker 1: her she was hemorrhaging insight and had a hematoma. She
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Speaker 1: could have bled to death. Crime stories with Nancy Grace, Guys,
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Speaker 1: we are talking about three young women. They tell people
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Speaker 1: they're going to Florida for plastic surgery. They go to
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Speaker 1: Tijuana and it kind of sounds like a girl's weekend away,
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Speaker 1: but they're going for plastic surgery. The same doctor operates
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Speaker 1: on all three and it ends in death. Renal failure,
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Speaker 1: kidney failure, internal bleeding, and children left without a mom.
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Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about. To Joseph's Goot Morgun, Professor Forensics,
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville State, Oh, I want to tell you something, Joe Scott,
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Speaker 1: before you get going. Don't think it's just women that
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Speaker 1: don't know any better. I have a very dear friend
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Speaker 1: that wanted I don't know the right term of hair
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Speaker 1: plugs and travels to Turkey to get them. Luckily, it
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Speaker 1: worked out great and it worked and it took I
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Speaker 1: don't really explain how it worked, but it did work.
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Speaker 1: But the whole time I was thinking, Oh, my stars,
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Speaker 1: what if something goes wrong in Turkey and there is
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Speaker 1: what could happen to him? Very intelligent people do this
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Speaker 1: for a cost savings and they're out of reach from
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Speaker 1: our medical facilities that we have. But the reality is
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Speaker 1: it happens right here in the US. So what is
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Speaker 1: Joe Scott? What is renal failure and kidney failure and
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Speaker 1: septic shot? And remember I'm not an MD, I'm just
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Speaker 1: a JD. So dummy down for me what happened well
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Speaker 1: with renal failure, Nancy. Essentially, what is going on is
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Speaker 1: that these individuals do, in fact go into kidney failure.
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Speaker 1: That means that their ability to process waste in their
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Speaker 1: body is essentially shut down, and this can have horrible
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Speaker 1: consequences all the way around. Now, one of the major
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Speaker 1: problems with this is that we don't know a lot
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Speaker 1: about the history, and I'm talking about the medical legal history.
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Speaker 1: If we're looking at this as from a death investigation perspective.
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Speaker 1: We've had patience when I was working at the Medical
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Speaker 1: Examiner Atlanta that have died in Atlanta, that have come
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Speaker 1: in from other countries that have had procedures, had the
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Speaker 1: same thing happened when I was working for the Corner
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Speaker 1: down in New Orleans. And it's horrible to get this
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Speaker 1: kind of data and the information. But the one thing
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Speaker 1: that we do know is that when you go to
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Speaker 1: these locations that such as this clinic, that are very
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Speaker 1: sketchy to begin with, you have no idea about the credentials,
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Speaker 1: You have no idea about just basic cleanliness. You know,
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Speaker 1: liposuction itself is something that is intrinsically dirty. It's not
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Speaker 1: something that is that's very clean, all right, So people
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Speaker 1: can develop things like septicemia, which means just a total
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Speaker 1: body infection, and your system begins to shut down. And
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Speaker 1: this poor girl, I've got something to tell you, Joe Scott.
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Speaker 1: It's not just these three women. And estimated two point
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Speaker 1: four million medical tourists crossing California to Tijuana specifically from procedures,
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Speaker 1: according to the Baja California Secretary Sustainable Economy and Tourism,
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Speaker 1: up from eight hundred thousand, two point four million, And
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Speaker 1: that's what it was a couple of years ago. Go
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Speaker 1: to Tijuana it's known for this. Let me bring in
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Speaker 1: another special guest joining us in addition to Keana Weaver's mother,
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Speaker 1: Renee Gary Davidson. He's a superstar in this field. Partner
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Speaker 1: with diaz Raeus International out of Miami, Gary. What is happening, Well,
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Speaker 1: what's happening here is enormous increase in medical tourism worldwide
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Speaker 1: cause of the increasing and ever increasing costs of medical
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Speaker 1: procedures here in the United States. Unfortunately, a couple of
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Speaker 1: practical things that they typically don't consider are, for example,
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Speaker 1: what do they do, what are their remedies if something
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Speaker 1: goes wrong if the doctor commits legal malpractice. Legal malpractice
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Speaker 1: is not a recognized industry in the legal profession in Mexico.
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Speaker 1: Contingency feework, which is typically done in medical malpractice cases,
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Speaker 1: is not prevalent in Mexico. It's a completely different institutional structure.
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Speaker 1: It's a civil law system, not a common law system,
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Speaker 1: and the rules are different, and so people take are
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Speaker 1: taking legal risks on a regular basis when they go
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Speaker 1: and undertake medical tourism. In looking at this from a
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Speaker 1: practical perspective, however, you know there's some there's some things
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Speaker 1: that can be learned from this tragedy or this series
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Speaker 1: of tragedies, and one of them is something that we
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Speaker 1: all know when we when we need a medical procedure,
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Speaker 1: and that is to do our research, to look into
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Speaker 1: the standards in the country, the certification standards for experts,
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Speaker 1: the certification standards for board certification, if they exist and
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Speaker 1: if they don't exist, to make sure that the person
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Speaker 1: they're going to see is going to do invasive surgery
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Speaker 1: has a good reputation. These are all difficult things to
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Speaker 1: find out when you're doing They really are our country, guys,
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Speaker 1: you're hearing Gary Davidson. He is a superstar in this field.
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Speaker 1: And yes, lawyers have specialties. For instance, you don't want
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Speaker 1: to go to an anti trust lawyer to sue your neighbor.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to go to a med mal practice
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Speaker 1: lawyer when you need a wheel written up. So Gary
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Speaker 1: has a specialty in this area, including international law, which
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Speaker 1: sadly is what we need in this case because these ladies,
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Speaker 1: thinking it was a fun lork go to Tijuana and
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Speaker 1: end up with horrible repercussions after what should be routine
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Speaker 1: plastic surgery. I'm talking about septic shock, kidney failure, renal
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Speaker 1: failure and leaving behind children without a mom. I want
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Speaker 1: to go back to Renee Weaver. This is Keiana's mother.
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Speaker 1: Keiana's leaving behind a one year old and a thirteen
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Speaker 1: year old. Renee, did Kiana have any idea about this
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Speaker 1: particular doctor. No, And to be honest, I didn't know
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Speaker 1: that she was going until the day she left. She
24:42
Speaker 1: was supposed to call me and tell me that she
24:45
Speaker 1: was going, but she never called. My son called me
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Speaker 1: and told me that she had went, and I was
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Speaker 1: liking shot. Then the next call, I guid it. He
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Speaker 1: called the sense she was there and that's that's it.
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Speaker 1: And it's more women out there, you know that have
25:11
Speaker 1: a story to tell about this doctor because it's ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: He's taking lives and he's just disregarded a body like
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Speaker 1: this trash. I'm not gonna let him get away with
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Speaker 1: what he did to my daughter. He just disgarded her
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Speaker 1: body like she was a piece of trash. She didn't care.
25:33
Speaker 1: When you say he discarded her body like a piece
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Speaker 1: of trash, what do you mean? What happened? She died
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Speaker 1: and they just took her to this uh mortuary. But
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Speaker 1: when I'm saying he disgarded her body like she was
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Speaker 1: trash is because I want to go see her body.
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Speaker 1: She was laying up there and that lace was so unsanitary.
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Speaker 1: It was ridiculous. I cried when I had to leave
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Speaker 1: my daughter there, and she was out there for several
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Speaker 1: days until I got her back here. I had to
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Speaker 1: do everything, view her body, get her from them dismartuary
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Speaker 1: where they had her, and I would go to the
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Speaker 1: corner's office. She didn't even have a case name, they
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Speaker 1: didn't grew, they didn't even report her dead. I had
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Speaker 1: to do all of that. They didn't report her dead,
26:37
Speaker 1: she didn't have a chase number, the more can't seen
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Speaker 1: her body nothing. I had to go find her. And
26:46
Speaker 1: that's why I say he disguarded her body like she
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Speaker 1: was a piece of trash. Crime stories with Nancy Grace,
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Speaker 1: guys with me, is yournee Weaver. This is Keiana's mother,
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Speaker 1: and we have no idea what her family has gone
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Speaker 1: through and what her body went through during this procedure.
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Speaker 1: Just to get a big rare end like Kim Kay's,
27:28
Speaker 1: It's it's kind of overwhelming, Doctor Bethany to hear the
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Speaker 1: heartbreak and the mother's voice, just to get a big
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Speaker 1: booty like the Kardashians. Have you gotta tell me something, Bethany, Well,
27:45
Speaker 1: I mean the suddenness, the cruelty being cast into another
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Speaker 1: society in a morgen Tajuana. I mean it's it's so horrific,
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Speaker 1: and loss is horrific anyway, loss for the one year
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Speaker 1: olds thirteen year old. No mother should have to bury
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Speaker 1: her daughter. And for Kancy in Tiouana. There are two worlds.
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Speaker 1: And I recently took a friend to get dental work
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Speaker 1: in Tijuana. And so for your listeners, you can't find
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Speaker 1: a dentist out there in La that fixes all the
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Speaker 1: stars teeth. Well, let me tell you what motivated him,
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Speaker 1: because it might be a lesson to your listeners. And
28:24
Speaker 1: by the way, he has clown teeth. Now they don't
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Speaker 1: look good at all. He has what but clown teeth?
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Speaker 1: They don't look good. That the dental work was bad?
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Speaker 1: Are you saying crown as in clown like a clown
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Speaker 1: in the rodeo that distracts the bull. You know, the
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Speaker 1: dental work was not good. So I lived two and
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Speaker 1: a half hours above the border. He found a place
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Speaker 1: called dent Art in Tijuana, and he wanted to give
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Speaker 1: veneers and that they're about I don't know. I think
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Speaker 1: five thousand dollars of the near here in Los Angeles,
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Speaker 1: and they were like five hundred dollars of the near there.
29:04
Speaker 1: When you drive over the border, you are just confronted
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Speaker 1: with all these huge billboards and ads for plastic surgery.
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Speaker 1: It's slick. It's like driving into Las Vegas. Then when
29:16
Speaker 1: we stayed overnight in the hotel where all the clinics are,
29:21
Speaker 1: there's a big gastronomic district with really beautiful restaurants. So
29:26
Speaker 1: we went out to dinner the night before. I walked
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Speaker 1: into several clinics. They're slick. Everyone's wearing you know, you know,
29:33
Speaker 1: they're all appropriately dressed as physicians and clinicians. After he
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Speaker 1: got his work done, we had a medical path so
29:43
Speaker 1: we could get right back over the border. We didn't
29:45
Speaker 1: even have to wait in line. So the whole situation there,
29:50
Speaker 1: it's set up for plastic surgery. When I was sitting
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Speaker 1: in the waiting room with the dental office Nancy, people
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Speaker 1: were coming straight from the airport wheeling in their suitcases.
30:02
Speaker 1: I mean there was one American after another. The place
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Speaker 1: was so crowded and everybody was breaking about how they
30:10
Speaker 1: were getting inexpensive dental work, and there is sort of
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Speaker 1: an illusion that you're getting something for free. And you
30:18
Speaker 1: asked me at the beginning of the show, you know
30:20
Speaker 1: what drives people to do this. I think the bargain
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Speaker 1: is part of it too, Like I would be ripped
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Speaker 1: off in the United States, but I'm going to get
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Speaker 1: something for free down here in Mexico. But as I
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Speaker 1: tell my patients, nothing in life is free. You always
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Speaker 1: pay one way or the other. Weaver was having a
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Speaker 1: LiPo and a tummy tuck. I want to go to
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Speaker 1: doctor Catherine Hannon, Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, Professor Plastic Surgery, Georgetown.
30:49
Speaker 1: Doctor again, thank you so much for being with us.
30:51
Speaker 1: I know that you're hearing this and your head must
30:54
Speaker 1: be spinning understanding and hearing what happened to Keyana. And
31:00
Speaker 1: it's very scary because people see these stars, they see
31:05
Speaker 1: the reality stars they want to quote look like that
31:09
Speaker 1: for whatever reason. But it sounds so slick. Doctor, What
31:18
Speaker 1: should people be looking out for? Doctor Hannon? All surgery
31:23
Speaker 1: is invasive and serious. There's nothing that is minimal when
31:29
Speaker 1: you're cutting into someone's body. And when you hear her
31:32
Speaker 1: say invasive think of invade, something is invading your body,
31:39
Speaker 1: this time a scalpel invade, a knife invading your body.
31:44
Speaker 1: It's so true, and I think patients don't want to
31:49
Speaker 1: know the gory details about what all happens in a
31:52
Speaker 1: tummy touch for instance, or lifebo suction, but it is
31:56
Speaker 1: we take our as surgeons as positions very seriously to
32:00
Speaker 1: do no harm. And it requires a good amount of training,
32:04
Speaker 1: not a weekend course, not watching some YouTube videos on
32:07
Speaker 1: how to you know where to make the incision line.
32:11
Speaker 1: So there is risk of bleeding in affection with anytime
32:14
Speaker 1: we essentially enter the body. Tummy tuck is a serious procedure,
32:19
Speaker 1: even in the best of hands. In the United States,
32:21
Speaker 1: for instance, one percent risk of blood clot with that procedure,
32:25
Speaker 1: and so god knows what could happen with people who
32:28
Speaker 1: don't know what they're doing. And isn't it show dodger
32:31
Speaker 1: If you've ever had a blood clot like I did
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Speaker 1: when I gave birth. I had a lot of blood
32:36
Speaker 1: clots stuck in my lungs, your suscept your more susceptable
32:41
Speaker 1: to having more blood clots if you've ever had them correct,
32:44
Speaker 1: and it's unclear if the patients like you get screened
32:47
Speaker 1: and ask the appropriate question. But the most serious part
32:50
Speaker 1: I would argue of all of this is that flying
32:53
Speaker 1: is also a risk for blood clots. So patients then
32:57
Speaker 1: go have these long procedures that laid them up the
33:00
Speaker 1: bed for a while. Then they get on a plane
33:02
Speaker 1: and the risk for a blood clot is immeasurably increased,
33:08
Speaker 1: and they often end up in the emergency rooms here
33:10
Speaker 1: in the United States when they when they come back.
33:14
Speaker 1: I recently had a patient who had several surgeries out
33:18
Speaker 1: of the country and developed a bloodlot while she was there,
33:21
Speaker 1: and they treated her but not sufficiently, didn't give her
33:26
Speaker 1: enough blood thinner. So she just left on her own
33:28
Speaker 1: and got herself on a plane and came to the
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Speaker 1: emergency room here in the United States for treatment. And
33:32
Speaker 1: you know, I'm glad she realized what was happening. I
33:35
Speaker 1: had no ideas she knew. I couldn't breathe correctly. I
33:38
Speaker 1: can barely breathe right. And then they found all the
33:42
Speaker 1: blood clots. So blood clots are very very serious. Jo
33:46
Speaker 1: Got Morgan, professor forensics and death investigator. Did you hear
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Speaker 1: Keana's mother, Renee describing the conditions where she found her
33:56
Speaker 1: daughter's body. You've been in plenty of a wargs SFI
34:00
Speaker 1: and the ones I've been in are completely pristine, completely
34:05
Speaker 1: And it's not like I hang around Morges, but I
34:08
Speaker 1: had to go from my homicide cases. That was shocking
34:12
Speaker 1: to me. What her mother said, Yeah, it is, and
34:15
Speaker 1: it goes It goes to a bigger theme. How are
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Speaker 1: you going to treat the loved ones the deceased or deceased.
34:21
Speaker 1: You know they're gone, but that image that's projected to
34:24
Speaker 1: those that remain and that memory, can you imagine? And uh,
34:29
Speaker 1: you know, I have to tell you, miss we were
34:31
Speaker 1: My deepest condolences to you. The heartbreaks for you. Absolutely,
34:35
Speaker 1: it's just heartbreaking. But that's something that is going to
34:38
Speaker 1: remain with Miss Weaver for an extended period of time.
34:42
Speaker 1: And to take it even a step further, this is
34:48
Speaker 1: something that is going to remain with these survivors as well, Nancy,
34:52
Speaker 1: relative to the medical treatment they received. This is this
34:55
Speaker 1: is going to impact how they are cared for in
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Speaker 1: the United States from now on. You know, they might
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Speaker 1: be resistant to want to go receive medical treatment at
35:03
Speaker 1: this point. And Davidson, partner of Diaz Rays International, joining
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Speaker 1: us at in Miami. This is his specialty, Gary Davidson.
35:17
Speaker 1: What can be done? How does the long arm of
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Speaker 1: the law reach out and get this guy in Tijuana.
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Speaker 1: There's really only one realistic way to do that, and
35:30
Speaker 1: that would be at the behest of the prosecutors down
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Speaker 1: in the region. Um, this is not going to be
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Speaker 1: resolved in a good fashion, in a productive fashion on
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Speaker 1: the civil side of the law, which is where I
35:47
Speaker 1: practice offensively um and convincing a prosecutor if they're reluctant
35:54
Speaker 1: um to pursue it, convincing a prosecutor down there to
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Speaker 1: move forward with a criminal investigation, which will, by the way,
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Speaker 1: reveal a whole series of facts and circumstances that are
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Speaker 1: not known at this points other victims, and the way
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Speaker 1: this gentleman conducted himself throughout the years, and his promotional activities,
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Speaker 1: his advertising, and the conditions of the clinic when when
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Speaker 1: the treatment was rendered, all of those things will become
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Speaker 1: part of the record in a criminal investigation and he
36:37
Speaker 1: could be charged in Mexico. Unfortunately, on the civil side,
36:42
Speaker 1: while it's possible to pursue the doctor in the clinic, realistically,
36:47
Speaker 1: the ability to recover anything of significance moneywise in Mexico
36:53
Speaker 1: for this tragedy is not promising, and I'll tell you why.
36:58
Speaker 1: I'm certainly no international lawyer, but to sue someone in
37:02
Speaker 1: the US, you have to have at least minimal contacts
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Speaker 1: in that jurisdiction. I can't just sue somebody in another
37:10
Speaker 1: country here in the US. They've got to be doing
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Speaker 1: business here, be located here, have some anchor here in
37:19
Speaker 1: the US to get a hold of him. Now if
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Speaker 1: he is advertising in the US or has the clinic
37:24
Speaker 1: in the US. Maybe I want to go last to
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Speaker 1: Miss Weaver, Kiana's mother. Miss Weaver, when you wake up
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Speaker 1: in the morning and you think about your daughter now
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Speaker 1: gone because of this doctor and a plastic surgery trip
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Speaker 1: to Tiajuana, please tell us your message to other women
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Speaker 1: considering this. Please just do your research, and every woman,
37:57
Speaker 1: I think, don't try to change yourselves for anyone. If
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Speaker 1: it's not for yourself, don't do it. Stay out of Mexico. Please.
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Speaker 1: I want to thank all of you for being with
38:12
Speaker 1: us today on this very important topic, because you know
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Speaker 1: he's dying women. Women, some of the most vulnerable people
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Speaker 1: in our society are dying at the hands of Butcher's
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Speaker 1: We wait as justice unfolds. God willing Nancy Grace Crime Story,
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Speaker 1: signing off good bye friend,