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‘Doc, you’re a threat to public health!’ ‘Dancing Doctor’ Dr Windell Davis-Boutte defends her YouTube videos shot during surgeries, a day before her license is suspended

Posted on June 8, 2018 by konniemoments in Human Interest, Medicine, News // 0 Comments

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‘Doctors, is this practice in any way ethical?’

‘I’m ’bout to cut it’ the cosmetic surgeon mimes and dances  and sings along in her YouTube videos, before she slices up a patient
Lilburn, Georgia based dermatologist Dr Windell Davis-Boutte has landed in hot water as the Medical Board guns for her in the wake of more than 100 patient complaints
‘I’ve done nothing wrong’ the defiant  ‘Dancing Doctor’ said on HLN, defending her YouTube videos shot during surgeries. All  videos were planned and staged with her patients’ consent, she said
A day later, medical authorities in Georgia suspended her license
Boutte is facing seven malpractice lawsuits from former patients. One son of a former patient said Boutte left his mother with permanent brain damage 
The next day, Georgia’s Composite Medical Board issued suspension, citing a threat to public health if Davis-Boutte continues to practice medicine
Davis-Boutte is also facing several malpractice lawsuits from former patients
Her patient, Sherita Cox, suffered a collapsed lung after liposuction and breast augmentation surgery on May 30.
One plaintiff, Ojay Liburd, blames Boutte for leaving his mom, Icilma Cornelius, with brain damage since 2016 after she was  left on the operating table for more than 8 hours during surgery
Attorney for Cornelius says nearly 100 women came forward to say they suffered in Boutte’s care, some of the claimants said they were able to identify themselves in her videos 

Medical authorities in Georgia have suspended the license of a doctor who posted videos of herself dancing with a scalpel over anesthetized patients during plastic surgeries.
Georgia’s Composite Medical Board issued the emergency suspension on Thursday, citing a threat to public health and welfare if Dr. Windell Davis-Boutte continues to practice medicine.
A day earlier, a defiant Davis-Boutte denied any wrongdoing in her first televised interview since the controversy erupted, which aired on the Headline News cable network.
‘Yes, I’ve done the soul searching, and no, I’ve done nothing wrong,’ Davis-Boutte proclaimed.

Windell Davis-Boutte 6.pngCosmetic surgeon Windell Davis-Boutte bogies down before she starts the delicate art of cutting up humans, in a bid to drum up more business
The Atlanta based dermatologist  filmed herself singing and dancing over her exposed patients during surgeries and posted videos to YouTube for promotional purposes. The firestorm from the blowback is threatening to engulf her career, as well as, her private life.
Davis-Boutte sat down for an interview with HLN on Wednesday, proclaiming that she has done nothing wrong, and that all her dancing videos were made with her patients’ consent.

The board-certified dermatologist went on to say that all the YouTube videos were planned and staged with her patients’ consent, although some patients said they never signed consent forms.
Boutte suggested that the videos, which she insisted were filmed in a safe and controlled environment towards the end of surgeries, have been taken out of context”
“Had I had the forethought and the foresight that an entity could take those innocent, consented, educational and celebratory videos, misconstrue them, edit and fabricate the context, and use it for negative agendas, I would not have done it,” she said.
The medical board said one of Davis-Boutte’s patients, Sherita Cox, suffered a collapsed lung after liposuction and breast augmentation surgery on May 30.
Attorney Susan Witt, who represents three women suing the doctor for malpractice, said the board interviewed her hospitalized client on Wednesday. She also said that nearly 100 women have reached out to her claiming that have suffered in Davis-Boutte’s care.
Among Witt’s clients is the family of a bride to be, Icilma Cornelius, who went in for a tummy tuck and liposuction in 2016 with Dr. Windell Boutte’s, and was left brain-dead.
Boutte’s public YouTube channel, which has since been taken down, showed the Lilburn, Georgia, physician performing surgeries while singing, dancing and cavorting over her exposed patients.
Witt said many of the women who have come forward did so because they felt Boutte had a lack of care and concern for her patients.

Windell Davis-Boutte 7Dr Davis-Boutte [photo], is facing seven malpractice lawsuits from former patients. One son of a former patient said Boutte left his mother with permanent brain damage 

Lilburn, Georgia based dermatologist Dr Windell Boutte filmed herself singing and dancing over her exposed patients during surgeries and posted videos to YouTube for promotional purposes.
Additionally, at least two of the women who came forward to Witt said that they were able to identify themselves in the YouTube videos.
‘I think in this day and age, patients do have to be their own advocate,’ Witt said. ‘This has been a cautionary tale which I believe patients can learn from.’
While Boutte advertises that she is ‘board certified in both surgery and dermatology,’ she is a certified dermatologist and not a board-certified plastic surgeon or general surgeon, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
In Georgia, licensed doctors are authorized to perform surgery, even if it is not their specialty.
‘I think in this day and age, patients do have to be their own advocate,’ Witt said. ‘This has been a cautionary tale which I believe patients can learn from.’
‘I would not recommend having surgery anywhere other than a hospital or ambulatory surgical center,’ Witt cautioned.
In the more than 20 videos that were previously posted to Boutte’s YouTube channel, the doctor is seen cutting into a patient’s abdomen as she sings along to the O.T. Genasis song ‘Cut It.’

Icilma Cornelius 2.pngBrain damaged for two years: Icilma Cornelius [right], seen [photo left], on her 50th birthday, four years earlier, was just weeks away from getting married and earning her PhD when she visited Boutte for a tummy tuck and liposuction in 2016. She did not get married

In a recent interview with WSB-TV, Latoyah Archine Rideau identified herself as the patient in the ‘Cut It’ video and said the surgery left her feeling ‘disfigured.’
‘To see that video, with my flesh being cut without a straight line, and [her] dancing while cutting me, that’s horrible,’ Rideau told the station, adding that she never signed a consent form for the video.
In another clip, Boutte is seen leaning over a patients half-bare buttocks without a mask or gloves on, while rapping the lyrics to Migos’ ‘Bad and Boujee.’
In that video Boutte tells the camera, ‘My patients are bad and boujee. Building up fat in the booty.’
‘You could not present a patient in a more undignified manner,’ Witt has said.
Thus far Boutte has five malpractice lawsuits pending against her and has reached four settlements, according to CNN.

Windell Davis-Boutte 8.png‘My patients are bad and boujee. Building up fat in the booty.’ – Boutte is seen leaning over a patients half-bare buttocks without a mask or gloves on, while rapping the lyrics to Migos’ ‘Bad and Boujee.’

In one case, 26-year-old Ojay Liburd has blamed Boutte for leaving his mother, Icilma Cornelius, with permanent brain damage. Cornelius in 2016, was just weeks away from getting married and earning her PhD when she visited Boutte for a tummy tuck and liposuction.
Ojay Liburd, 26, has blamed Boutte for leaving his mother, Icilma Cornelius, with permanent brain damage.
Cornelius was just weeks away from getting married and earning her PhD when she visited Boutte for a tummy tuck and liposuction in 2016.
‘You could not present a patient in a more undignified manner,’ Witt has said.
Thus far Boutte has five malpractice lawsuits pending against her and has reached four settlements, according to CNN.

Windell Davis-Boutte 11 ‘To see that video, with my flesh being cut without a straight line, and [her] dancing while cutting me, that’s horrible,’ one of the affected patients said of the surgeon’s antics
Ojay Liburd has blamed Dr Davis-Boutte for leaving his mother with permanent brain damage caused by negligence on the operating table.pngOjay Liburd has blamed Dr Davis-Boutte for leaving his mother with permanent brain damage caused by negligence on the operating table

Cornelius was just weeks away from getting married and earning her PhD when she visited Boutte for a tummy tuck and liposuction in 2016. She did not get married.
But Cornelius’ heart stopped after she was left on the operating table for more than eight hours. She will now need care for the rest of her life, and did not end up getting married.
‘She just wanted to be perfect for her wedding dress,’ Liburd said. ‘She had everything going for her.’
‘That was the first time I ever saw my mom helpless.’
Liburd has a GoFundMe page to help defray costs of caring for his mother.
Mitzi McFarland said after her own liposuction with Boutte, she ended up with incisions  that looked ‘more like Freddy Krueger cut my stomach’.
This isn’t the first time Boutte has come under fire for her work.
In 2013, a woman who went to see Boutte at Premiere Dermatology and Surgery for a scalp irritation said she contracted MRSA during the treatment. She said she suffered permanent scars on her scalp as a result, the patient claimed.

 

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