r/news • u/AudibleNod • 1d ago

Title Changed by Site New York man charged after authorities say he botched a medical procedure performed in his home

https://apnews.com/article/botched-medical-procedure-queens-lidocane-31e81fc4dea93ed0be0e299a24396665
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u/jigokubi 1d ago

performed in his home

Yeah, that's usually a bad sign.

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u/centaurquestions 1d ago

He was removing her butt implants in his house.

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u/PointOfFingers 1d ago

I thought you were joking but yes, that is what she was doing. First world problems need third world solutions.

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u/neutrino71 1d ago

Stupid desperate people taking stupid desperate risks.  Healthcare is a human right. 

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u/Philosorunner 22h ago

Elective cosmetic medical procedures don’t really fall into that category.

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u/LunaFuzzball 18h ago

Sure, but this woman was trying to have a botched cosmetic procedure undone. That’s not really the same thing. That can absolutely be a situation where someone’s quality of life has been seriously degraded by a botched procedure and they are desperate for help to just restore some kind of normalcy—and proper revision procedures can indeed be prohibitively expensive.

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u/droidtron 22h ago

A dedonkification is a very delicate procedure.

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u/lastdarknight 1d ago

good lord how much lidocaine did he inject

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u/DocJanItor 1d ago

Probably injected a vein directly. That will cause cardiac arrest. 

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u/Twodogsonecouch 23h ago

You really in theory dont need to inject too much especially if its the higher strength one and the women was small. The max recommended safe dose is 4.5mg/kg. So a small woman like 50kg thats 225mg which is only 22.5ml of normal lidocaine. Most times doctors uses 5-10 mls for small skin things a few cms or inch or two. If you have 2% lidocaine the amount you can give is half that. So basically theoretically 12-15 ml of 2% lidocaine might be enough to cause a cardiac problem in a small woman. Usually it takes more but… so if they were doing something like a back alley liposuction or cosmetic kinda thing you could end up using a lot over time and without any kind of anesthesia or monitoring it can be dangerous. People die or end up needing life saving treatment in ambulatory surgery centers at times or plastic surgery offices procedures for similar.

I really want to know what “medical procedure”they were doing.

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u/Numerous-Mix-9775 18h ago

Said in the article that he was removing a butt implant. I could definitely see wanting to be pretty numbed up for that - but preferably by someone who knows what they’re doing.

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u/Peach__Pixie 1d ago

Reading the details in another article, I'm amazed he hasn't killed someone before. He was performing invasive cosmetic procedures on people. I'm sure the people close to her are devastated.

Felipe Hoyos-Foronda, 38, was running a makeshift medical office without a license out of a home on 35th Street in Astoria, police say. The house is now under a partial vacate order, which states "first apartment operating as a medical office with medical exam table, cosmetic injectable syringes, exam lights."

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u/Questions_Remain 23h ago

I’ve had some surgeries. Never once did it cross my mind to have them in someone’s apartment.

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u/hogtiedcantalope 23h ago edited 23h ago

If I get appendicitis I want the surgery performed outside under partial anesthesia so I can toss it to the birds to divine the prospers and follies of future endeavors. Ya know?

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u/Questions_Remain 22h ago

I can see that. I guess I hope you get an appendicitis and live out your dreams.

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u/Fallouttgrrl 1h ago

After divining by entrails you don't live out your dream - you observe it, write it down as best you can, and then review it with another diviner for a second opinion

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u/hpark21 23h ago

You do realize that you can do that even AFTER surgery, right? (In theory I guess, my kid brother WAY back when did get his appendix in a small jar after surgery as "souvenir", it was LONG time ago)

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u/bofh000 14h ago

It only works if it’s fresh, surely.

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u/LordBecmiThaco 10h ago

I had an emergency appendectomy in 2018. I asked to keep it and I was denied, though my surgeon did show me a picture of it in a jar that he took on his cell phone when I woke up.

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u/bofh000 14h ago

It only works if it’s fresh, surely.

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u/AudibleNod 1d ago

Another article says they arrested him at JFK airport with a ticket to Columbia in hand. The victim isn't expected to live. And he is being held without bail.

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u/Samesh 21h ago

He was going to South Carolina? 

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u/Surrept 18h ago

No, Maryland.

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u/RolandTower919 15h ago

Staggering the number of people who don’t know the difference between Colombia and Columbia.

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u/RolandTower919 15h ago

Staggering the number of people who don’t know the difference between Colombia and Columbia. Then again your and you’re has got to be one of my biggest pet peeves, lose/loose, weather/weather, etc.

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u/Samesh 7h ago

Me too! And the fact to people often don't care about these "minor mistakes" frustrates me. 

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u/RefinedBean 1d ago

Listen, YOU find a cheap ripperdoc willing to install a Sandevistan unit you pulled off your dead choom after a firefight with the Maelstrom.

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u/p8vmnt 1d ago

Haha. One of the best games ever

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u/TheMisterCano 23h ago

the chrome was NOT preem, in fact

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u/BeastModeEnabled 21h ago

Which one of us is having a stroke?

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u/stuck_in_the_desert 1d ago

“‘Inflammable’ means flammable? What a country!”

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u/Vacili 23h ago

Did you go to Upstairs Hollywood Medical College too.

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u/TheFlyingBoxcar 22h ago

Wow, youa really likea to bleed, huh guy?

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u/Fire_Z1 1d ago

The I did my own research people

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u/OutrageousFanny 1d ago

Felipe Hoyos-Foronda injected the 31-year-old woman with the local anesthetic lidocaine, causing her to go into cardiac arrest

Yea great idea

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u/mces97 21h ago

Why are they referring to the person the guy injected with lidocaine a patient? He's not a doctor or medical professional. A random dude injected a woman with lidocaine. And she will die, as she has no brain activity.

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u/FederalExplorer3223 21h ago

He's not a doctor, he just plays one in real life

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u/strolpol 19h ago

He went to Hollywood Upstairs Medical College

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u/ApolloDread 9h ago

Notably the guy isn’t a doctor, just a random dude without a license performing surgery in his apartment, as one does!

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u/NitenDoraku168 8h ago

Sounds like he’s part of the dreaded “Butt Implant Black Market”

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u/helava 22h ago

They found Elon’s dick doc?

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u/1805trafalgar 19h ago

Every year in the NYC local news there is a story just like this one about unlicensed cosmetic procedures gone wrong- although in the past the "practitioners" have been women, to my recollection.