Plastic surgeon who livestreamed procedures on TikTok banned from practicing medicine in Ohio
Plastic surgeon who livestreamed procedures on TikTok banned from practicing medicine in Ohio
The Ohio Medical Board on Wednesday voted to ban Katharine Grawe — also known as Dr. Roxy in her plastic surgery practice and to her many TikTok followers — from ever practicing again in the state.
The board said Grawe, who originally had her license suspended in November, neglected her patients as she livestreamed parts of their procedures, spoke into a camera and answered viewer questions — all while the surgeries were taking place.
The unnamed patient suffered severe damage to and bacterial infections in her abdomen, as well as loss of brain function from the amount of toxins in her blood, according to the notice.
Holy shit. I read the headline and thought it was bad but reading this... wow
oof. I was trying to give as much benefit of the doubt before going in... like, maybe it was a consenting patient, anonymized, and it would be really cool for educational purposes. I'd love to see a livestreamed surgery where the surgeon explains to the audience exactly what's going on and such.
But this... damn. Straight up negligence
Sounds like she lost her license for reasons having to do with patient care in addition to live-streaming her surgical procedures.
She also did it without her patients' consent, which is a big no no.
You can film patients, they just have to agree. That is how you get professional popping videos.
That very last sentence made me spit out my coffee. Take an upvote.
That is a big point, none would want their experiences with therapist on tik tok, can't even imagine, lol
Imagine doing over a decade of schooling and training, spending thousands of dollars to become a platic surgeon, making really, really good money and generally be respected by most people.
Imagine that not being enough and you throw it all away in an attempt at being a fucking tiktok star.
Well, she is blonde
Nah it’s probably more to do with her being ohioan
Same thing happened on Brazil a couple years ago. I saw the censored videos published by newspapers and they were pretty disturbing, the surgeon was not doing tiktoks that could be classified as educational or informatives, but doing literal tiktok dances while the patient was opened up in front of the camera.
now I have this mental image of someone in surgical gear default dancing in the middle of a heart transplant.
Don't need to, can check out by yourself https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/cirurgia-que-fez-videos-com-pele-de-pacientes-e-processada-por-erro-medico
"Do the Harlem Shake"
God give me back my life before i had imagined that
As someone in the medical field, I just can’t fathom the shear audicity. It is well known you DO NOT fuck with the medical board. The fact they gave her a second chance and she went right back to doing it. Wow, she deserves every bit of what she got.
Patients complained of severely negative outcomes such as infections, lack of followers and compulsive shitposting. They were duped into consenting to the procedures, believing the claim that she was 'surgical with da tiktok algorithm'.
Why is this in the technology community? This is mostly about medical malpractice, the fact that she streamed a video of what why was doing isn't very technologically interesting or relevant to the tech field as a whole.
A prominent social media app was the evidence for, and partial cause of, her malpractice. It's very much a story about the cultural impact of tech.
It's so weird seeing this shit nationally when it's so local to us. I took this picture a month ago or so. It's a different company/person now.
This feels pretty much deserved. I'm also certain this violated several privacy laws.
Wouldn't this be a blatant breach of HIPAA* regulations
Only if personally identifiable information was made available. My understanding is that this was not the case here. Doctors are allowed to discuss medical cases, just not in an identifiable way.
HIPAA
I live in Cbus and this was such a bizarre story. I figured the ban hammer would fall sooner rather than later on this one.
She's Dr. Roxy, the Rock and Roll
clownDoctor, and she does cocaine!!!Put the boots to her, medium style