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MIAMI — Miami — ground zero in the United States for the Brazilian butt lift, the mommy makeover, breast enlargement and other plastic surgery specialties — has achieved another distinction: It is home to a cottage industry of illegally operating recovery centers for post-op patients who need to hunker down and heal, sometimes for days. Embedded in suburbia, the homes are engaged in a game of whack-a-mole with authorities, who look for vans disgorging bruised and bandaged passengers, and featuring back-alley garbage cans brimming with bandages and other medical waste. Often overcrowded and/or ......

MIAMI -- Dr. Joshua Lampert misses his mom more than usual when May comes around. Adele Lynn Lampert died in March 2020 at 68. She battled for over a decade with metastatic pheochromocytoma, a rare form of cancer that spread throughout her body. This May, in honor of her memory, the board-certified aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgeon in Aventura is offering free reconstructive and medically necessary plastic surgery to moms in Florida who are underinsured or don’t have insurance. “She was always really proud of the charitable projects that I did, and the surgical mission trips, so I t......

SAN DIEGO — The dreams that began haunting Randy Dalo almost as soon as he recovered from neck surgery in January 2017 went on trial in a downtown San Diego courtroom Tuesday. Are they the hazy evidence revealing the harrowing truth that he awakened during his operation? Or are they just that — nothing other than dreams — of an otherwise routine event at the end of a successful surgery? Dalo, a former sport fishing boat captain, has filed a lawsuit against UC San Diego, as well as a former anesthesiologist and nurse who were part of the surgical team at UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest that pe......

MIAMI — For the second time in the last five years, the death of a Brazilian butt-lift patient at Coral Gables’ Seduction Cosmetic Surgery has led to the doctor being banned from performing such procedures. Dr. John Sampson, whose seventh illegal surgery patient died on June 16, 2021, keeps his medical license. Sampson’s punishment from the Florida Board of Medicine was handed down Friday. Additionally, he was fined $20,000; charged $5,626 for investigation and prosecution costs; ordered to perform five hours of continuing medical education in medical records keeping; must present a one-hour l......

CHICAGO — Cooper Roberts, the 8-year-old boy paralyzed from the waist down after being wounded at the Independence Day parade shooting in Highland Park, is in “very critical” condition after undergoing his seventh surgery on Wednesday, a family spokesman said. Though his condition after the surgery seemed positive and the boy was breathing over the ventilator, as the day progressed Cooper’s fever returned. A CT scan also revealed fluid building in his esophagus, lungs and now around his pelvis, the family said through their spokesman, Anthony Loizzi. As a result of the complications, Cooper re......

Comedian Kathy Griffin has promised to offer a behind-the-scenes look at her recovery from surgery to remove part of a lung and the cancer infesting it, and on Saturday she started delivering. The 60-year-old spoke on camera for the first time since her surgery via an Instagram post. “My voice is like, really hoarse, and I don’t want to scare people,” she said on Instagram, quipping about her compromised vocals. “Also for some reason, I’m laughing at everything now. And if it’s horrible, I laugh way more!” Comments flooded in, with Griffin’s famous friends sending messages of support and heali......