Woman, 48, Dies After Grueling Day of Plastic Surgery Procedures
The Daily Beast • • health
Key Points:
- Joy Barbera, a 48-year-old mother of two, died after undergoing six plastic surgery procedures in one day at Memorial Ambulatory Surgery Center in Houston, Texas.
- Her husband, Peter Ginnegar, filed a lawsuit against the surgery center, the plastic surgeon Dr. Kendall Roehl, the anesthesiologist, and nurses, alleging negligence following her death.
- Barbera underwent a risky full-body transformation including liposuction, tummy tuck, Brazilian butt lift, breast augmentation, body lift, and arm lift, with the Brazilian butt lift considered particularly dangerous by many surgeons.
- Barbera called her husband after surgery indicating something was wrong, but she later became unresponsive and was declared brain-dead; the official cause of death was hemorrhagic shock related to the multiple surgeries.
- Ginnegar criticized the glamorization of plastic surgery on social media and highlighted the lack of adequate patient education on the risks of such extensive procedures in non-hospital settings.
