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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by tangomargarine on Tuesday July 18 2023, @08:59PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday July 18 2023, @08:59PM (#1316723)

    Their latest estimate found that approximately 251,000 lives are claimed each year because of medical error

    https://www.sidgilreath.com/medical-malpractice-death-statistics.html [sidgilreath.com]

    As of May 1, at least 13,959 people have died from gun violence in the U.S. this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive – which is an average of roughly 115 deaths each day.

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/116-people-died-gun-violence-day-us-year/story?id=97382759 [go.com]

    By my math, that's 42k(ish) gun deaths per year...so no, that would be about every 6 years.

    And I'm sure many of those doctors *are* held accountable. This is a troll comparison.

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