BUTT AUGMENTATION MADAM JAILED
Another day, another butt job madam sentenced to prison. Whalesca Castillo a charlatan, who charges customers $1,500 a pop for butt enhancement was sentenced to 1 year in prison. She was arrested in 2011 after Police serving a search warrant on her Bronx home found empty bottles of Columbian silicone, used needles, bloody gauze, and “dozens” of tubes of superglue to seal injection sites to prevent leaking silicone. She was well known by strippers who wanted large bums.
Events such as these sadden and anger me. As doctor and a board certified cosmetic surgeon, I find this news story outrageous. Dangerous and illegal "back alley" surgery is a sure fire way to infection, disfigurement or worse. You may save a few dollars if you survive, but I don't suggest betting your life on it. I want to clear up a few things. First, if you want cosmetic surgery, you should be sure that the person performing it is a licensed physician, to begin with. You can out if a person has a license to practice medicine, if he or she is a doctor, by going to your state's department of health website. For instance, the horror story in this article took place in New York, so you would go to http://www.health.ny.gov/. Notice the state initials and the .gov. Every state has a government website that will give you a physicians license number. You can just type Department of Health, then your state in your search engine. Look around and you will find a button for verifying licensure. And second, and this truly infuriated me, as a doctor, an emergency room is an implied contract with the public. If a hospital has an emergency room they must see you if they are publically funded even if you cannot pay. Of course these women should have sought medical help the minute they detected a problem! Only get medical attention from a licensed physician, and do go to an emergency room if you have an emergent medical problem!
ReplyDeleteDr. Rhys L. Branman
Its such a shame how the perspective of what a woman should look like has taken over our world. Tope, I love reading your blog so much and miss you when you don't write. I see your ideals and pray for you all the time. Dr Rhys has hit the nail on the head. I am not all for surgery, but if you must do it go to a professional. This is coming from a brother to any sister out there thinking of surgery.
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