A Texas man claims an Upper East Side plastic surgeon botched his butt implant, sending him to the intensive care unit.
What a pain in the rear!
Lewis Scott Brogan, 54, says his pre-procedure lab results showed he was in moderate kidney failure, but Park Avenue doc Douglas Steinbrech plowed ahead with the 11-hour procedure at Gotham Plastic Surgery on the Upper East Side while failing to insert a catheter, Brogan alleged in Manhattan Supreme Court papers.
Brogan claimed he was discharged from a seven-day hospital stay at Weill Cornell in “ongoing excruciating pain” from his implant and had a high white blood cell count, which indicated infection, according to the legal filing against Steinbrech, Gotham Plastic Surgery, Weill Cornell and others.“There were a few issues we believe that were departures from the standard of care,” said Brogan’s attorney, Gerald Grunsfeld. “It’s like one mistake compounding on each other.
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