According
to NY Daily News reports: When
18-year-old Linda Perez went in for breast augmentation surgery in Miami, Fla.,
last August, she was a fun-loving, spirited mother to a little boy. Today,
roughly three months after she woke from a coma, you would hardly recognize
her.
“She sees
that she cannot walk, and when she realizes what happened to her she cries,”
said added.
An hour
after her surgery, she suffered complications and fell into a coma from which
she didn’t wake until October.
“While my
client is no longer in a vegetative state, she still is not doing well
physically,” the family’s attorney, Mark Eiglarsh, told the Daily News by email
on Monday.
“She
requires 24 hour care, [is] unable to eat, bathe, and/or go to the bathroom on
her own. Additionally, she doesn’t speak or walk and has no ability to care for
her young child. Her mother compares her condition to that of a helpless
infant,” he wrote.
According
to an attorney for the cosmetic center, there may have been some past medical
problems with Perez that she wasn’t forthcoming about.
“We have
conducted our own investigation and I have requested medical records from Ms.
Perez’s family, including her toxicology reports, and I have been stonewalled,”
Kubs Lalchandani told the Daily News of his claimed inability to get
information.
In a
report previously filed by Perez’s surgeon, Dr. Jacob Freiman stated that the
medical problems Perez experienced after the surgery are similar to ones she
experienced during child birth. He cites this information to one of Perez’s
doctors.
“They put
a spinal anesthetic, and she needed to be intubated,” according to his report
describing her post-labor obtained by the Herald.
Freiman
believes that Perez hid this information from him so it wouldn’t stop him from
performing the surgery.
Such a
claim is argued as “hogwash” by Eiglarsh who denies that she knowingly had
complications from anesthesia in the past.
“We
obtained her medical records from when she gave birth to her son and she had an
epidural, without any anesthesia. The allegation that she had an adverse
reaction to anesthesia was manufactured by the cosmetic center lawyer in an
obvious attempt to blame the victim and avoid responsibility for their gross
negligence,” wrote Eiglarsh.
Records
show Freiman is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and has no
history of malpractice complaints.
But an anesthesiologist who also participated in the surgery does.
But an anesthesiologist who also participated in the surgery does.
In 2006,
Dr. Mario Alberto Diaz had been sentenced to 30 months in prison and two years’
probation after illegally pedaling drugs online in Iowa.
Diaz was
also a defendant for medical malpractice in the death of a 35-year-old
following buttock augmentation, according to the Herald.
His
license is active, but he is no longer working at the center, according to
Lalchandani.
“Our
hopes and prayers are with her. We never want to see any patient under harm,”
said Lalchandani of Perez’s condition.
Due to
patient privacy, Lalchandani said he couldn’t provide further comment, but said
no lawsuits have been filed by the family.
Eiglarsh
promised, however, that there’s one in the works.
“As they
have no insurance, collecting a nickel towards my client’s lifetime of required
healthcare is unfortunately impossible. We are still determined to raise
people’s awareness concerning the dangers involved in these types of clinics,”
he said.
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