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Dr Di in Skin & Allergy News Point-Counterpoint

Posted by admin in Dr D quoted on January 15, 2010

My Point-Counter Point on the Donda West law came out in the January issue of Skin & Allergy News for those interested:

Dr Di Editorial on Donda West Law

Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD

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Donda West Law Signed by The Governor

Posted by admin in plastic surgery news on October 21, 2009

LA Times

–The Donda West Law, named after the mother of rap artist Kanye West, who died from complications after she underwent cosmetic surgery. AB 1116 by Assemblywoman Wilmer Amina Carter (D-Rialto) prohibits elective cosmetic surgery unless the patient first is cleared by a physical examination.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the Donda West bill into law a few days ago. It reportedly makes it a law that patients need a physical exam before cosmetic surgery. Good surgeons do this anyway. Not-so-good ones don’t do great examinations anyway. Will they miss medical issues? Probably.

My opinion: “Feel good legislation”

Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD

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Donda West Death Fallout

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A Donda West Law

Posted by admin in political medicine on August 18, 2008

Source: sohh.com/2008/08/news-kanyes-mom.html

In the wake of the Donda West tragedy the California State Senate has done what they do…enacted another law.

The law merely makes it the law to perform a history and physical on a patient before elective surgery. This is already the standard of care. I have been doing it this way for over a decade. Good doctors already do this. The bad ones will probably not change or they will offload the responsibility to someone else.

I am not a fan of “feel good” legislation, but legislators probably felt impelled to appear as if they are doing something even if it really does nothing. This is politics.

Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD

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Donda West Death Fallout

Posted by admin in plastic surgery complications, Plastic Surgery legal on June 2, 2008

TMZ

“Yolanda Anderson, niece of Donda and cousin of Kanye, along with Calif. Assemblywoman Wilmer Amina Carter, introduced a bill into the Cali legislature that would require patients to receive a physical exam before plastic surgery.”

That’s great, but it is already the Standard of Care for cases involving a general anesthetic at least. If she was not examined before surgery, her surgeon could already be held below that standard. Our legal system is less than consistent. This is part of the problem.

Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD

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