Maria Alaimo, a woman in Staten Island, is suing her plastic surgeon (for 5 million dollars!) for what she is calling a botched boob job:

NY Daily News

From the information provided it is hard to tell if this is an unfortunate complication, a misunderstanding or if something was done incorrectly. Looking Doctor Keith Berman up at the ABMS, he is a board certified plastic surgeon. We do not know what she looked like before or after surgery.

Laura adds:

The other part of the story is that she picked her doctor from a review website. What are your thoughts in these doctor review websites? Is there another way you would recommend a lay person get information on their potential surgeons?

Sites referring patients to surgeons are difficult to evaluate as some of them take money from the surgeon to do so. In this case according to the story the service was paid $500 for the referral. (Was the referral a vote of confidence or a simple purchase?) I always recommend that patients screen their prospective surgeons on the internet and have a portion of my web site that explains how that can be done.

Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD

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