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Ohio Bans Doctor After Botched Surgeries on TikTok Threaten Patients’ Lives

posted by hubie on Tuesday July 18 2023, @10:59AM   
from the hold-my-beer dept.

Freeman writes:

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/07/ohio-bans-doctor-after-botched-surgeries-on-tiktok-threaten-patients-lives/

Yesterday, an Ohio plastic surgeon, Katharine Grawe—who accumulated nearly 15 million likes by livestreaming operations on TikTok as "Doctor Roxy"—was permanently banned from practicing medicine and surgery in Ohio.

The decision came following a November 2022 suspension temporarily barring Grawe from seeing patients after the State Medical Board of Ohio reviewed "clear and convincing evidence" from multiple patients who were harmed during Grawe's livestreamed surgeries. The board decided to suspend Grawe's license, saying that her "continued practice presents a danger of immediate and serious harm to the public."

Related: (Don't do dumb things while operating. Sure doesn't help, if you screw things up and it's all on video either.)
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Original Submission

• Re:Money (Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday July 18 2023, @02:10PM

  by DannyB (5839) on Tuesday July 18 2023, @02:10PM (#1316668) Journal

  Was she covered with malpractice insurance?

  The malpractice insurance may have had an exclusion clause that does not cover surgery performed on TikTok.

  She should have used a different social media platform.

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  Universal health care is so complex that only 32 of 33 developed nations have found a way to make it work.

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