The content might be disgusting, but I just couldn't stop laughing and feel sorry for this unfortunate patient... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...5&u=/nm/20041008/od_uk_nm/oukoe_crime_surgeon Fugitive phoney Florida doctor nabbed Fri Oct 8, 3:56 PM ET By Jane Sutton MIAMI (Reuters) - Police in Belize have arrested a Florida fugitive described by detectives as a fake doctor who drugged his cosmetic surgery patients with an animal anaesthetic and left a male bodybuilder with female breast implants. Reinaldo Silvestre, 63, was arrested in Belize City, where he was teaching and practising medicine, the U.S. State Department said on Friday. Silvestre fled after Miami Beach police charged him in 1999 with fraud, aggravated battery, practising medicine without a license and grand theft in connection with botched surgeries that left his patients permanently disfigured. Police got a tip Silvestre was in Belize and U.S. Embassy officials worked with police in the Central American nation who arrested him. Silvestre was jailed pending extradition to Florida, said Ed Moreno, special agent in Miami with the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Miami Beach police said in 1999 that Silvestre had no medical license and operated late at night at a clinic on Lincoln Road Mall, a trendy strip of outdoor cafes and shops. He anaesthetised patients with Ketamine, an animal tranquilliser known on the street as "Special K," police said. They began investigating after a patient, described as a former model in her 20s, showed them a videotape she made of Silvestre operating on a male body builder who wanted pectoral implants to make his chest look more muscular. "He ended up with female breast implants," police Capt. Charles Press said in 1999. Police said the tape showed Silvestre jamming the C-cup implants into the patient's chest with "a spatula-type thing that you'd see in a kitchen" and sewing up the incision with crude X-shaped stitches. He said the patient awoke three times during the procedure and was told to go back to sleep. The woman videotaped the operation at Silvestre's request because he had never performed a pectoral surgery and wanted to document his work, police said at the time. The charges involved three patients, but police have said they suspect there were more mutilated victims who were too embarrassed to come forward. Moreno said Silvestre worked at a hospital in Belize City and taught at a medical university where he coached students preparing to take exams for doctor licensing.
Actually the differentiation between Pectoral muscle and silicone are getting more blurry as men from Shanghai increasingly receive breast implants to impress their loved ones... and their bosses! http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...757&e=1&u=/nm/20041013/od_nm/china_breasts_dc Breast Implants for Men -- What's Up with That? Wed Oct 13,10:42 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Breast implants are becoming more and more popular with a surprising group of Shanghai citizens -- men. The Shanghai Daily said Wednesday that most of the male patients seeking implants in China's financial hub wanted to impress women, or clients, or in some cases their boss. The implants are similar to those used by women, but they are shaped differently and are stiffer. Doctors warn that the surgery has certain risks and people with allergies or heart problems should find another way to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites), the newspaper said. "To be frank, surgery is unnecessary," Liu Chunlong, from the Shanghai Ren'ai Hospital, was quoted as saying. "Physical exercise can create the same effect and it is safer." He said the hospital had received 40 patients this year and operated on 10, compared with just two or three such operations last year. He said many of the patients had psychological problems. "They ascribe the unhappiness in their lives to their weak muscles," he was quoted as saying. "The surgery, in some instances, serves as psychological therapy."
My cousin (male) had breast reduction surgery after he'd done a year's worth of exercise to lose weight... Now (18 years later) he has a gut, and a falsely flat, yet flabby chest. Yech!
