An Ohio cosmetic surgeon has had her medical license revoked for being reckless with patients under the knife, who suffered ‘unusual’ complications after she filmed herself live during its operations.
“We found an extreme lack of professionalism. His posts are executed as a marketing ploy. Dr. Grawe’s social media was more important to her than the lives of the patients she treated,” one of the medical board members said bluntly, according to CBS Austin on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, Dr. Katharine Roxanne Grawe, known as Dr. Roxy, had her medical license permanently revoked by the Ohio Medical Board.
Because in addition to not respecting medical confidentiality, the woman would also have put her patients in danger by taking her eyes off her hands in the middle of the operation to read and answer questions on her cell phone, which was filming the procedure live.
His behavior would have thus caused unusual complications in at least three patients, “caused by the recklessness and disregard for the rules governing the practice of medicine in Ohio”, indicated for his part the vice-president of the Council, Dr. Jonathan B. Feibel, according to the “New York Times”.
In his opinion, the camera would have otherwise “amplified his reckless behavior”, he added.
“I ask you from the bottom of my heart to please consider my thoughts with an open mind. It humbled me more than you know. I am ready to change my social media practices and I will never broadcast an operation live again,” Dr. Roxy reportedly responded, according to CBS Austin.
The cosmetic surgeon was not on her first warning, she who had received two letters, in October 2018 and September 2021 to warn her, even leading to training on the professionalism and ethics of social networks, in vain .
“It’s finally over. This chapter of my life is over, but I will never forget”, reacted for her part a former patient, Mary Jenkins, who had met Dr. Grawe as part of breast reconstruction after beating cancer, to CBS. Austin.