00:00:00 Intro 00:01:50 Can doctors operate on their own family members/spouses? 00:13:00 When did Ben and Hillary meet? 00:19:47 His studies, background, etc 00:26:28 Arrest Affidavit 00:41:50 Malpractice on more than one occasion 00:52:25 Facility closed to the public that day? 01:03:18 Why did it take so long to charge him? 01:08:40 Hillary's dad speaks to the media 01:13:10 Ben Brown's family statement 01:17:10 Another patient tells her story 01:28:20 She told friends that she planned to leave him? 01:39:10 Debrief and Outro Remember this Florida surgeon who murdered an attorney? Check this out: ru-vid.comJq9zjZN4msk?si=gr1BLfxk0KNFfWmA
Definately. ER PA here, no way Id let someone tell me not to call 911/summon EMS when clearly someone is coding, seizing, incapacitated. Its almost hard to believe and he must have did it intentionally thinking he could cover it up claiming “I made a mistake”. It makes no sesne.
This is Florida. Doctors hit and verbally assault nurses on the regular and the "right to work" law is letting hospitals and doctors reign with iron fist. Why do you think nurses flee from this state? Not only would you lose your job but your license and get physically assaulted on top of that. I you hear the stories and witness it , you wouldn't believe it..
This is Florida. Doctors hit and verbally assault nurses on the regular and the "right to work" law is letting hospitals and doctors reign with iron f!st. Why do you think nurses flee from this state? Not only would you lose your job but your license and get physically @ssaulted on top of that. I you hear the stories and witness it , you wouldn't believe it..
I think anyone who was working for his practice was probably culpable in other unlawful 'practices' ... they probably did it routine enough that they wouldn't think it was awkward, but then when something like this happens, they don't know what to do... if that makes sense
He allowed his wife, with no medical training to prep her IV bag and medicine.. she injected herself I believe before he even started and she stitched HERSELF?!?!? I've been a medical assistant for 15 years and we're not allowed to do that let alone allow an untrained person prep inject and work on themselves
He had medical assistants in there not nurses.. we can do lots of the same things but MAs don't do IVs or sutures (I can do them cuz i was taught in school but most MAs dont learn sutures especially today... I'd have called immediately regardless of what the Dr said to me
They weren't nurses. had no medical training. That was no accident. RNs that did work there, called him out, were fired, and he was reported MULTIPLE times by them all.
Xylocaine is just lidocaine with another name. It’s absolutely common to pour opened vials of xylocaine into sterile bowls on a sterile field. Filling into a sterile syringe while either using sterile gloves or being fully scrubbed into the operative procedure. It is then used; injected into the dermis to numb the area locally. Known as local anesthesia. It’s is in almost every surgical procedure in various concentrations.
Please everyone- when you are having a surgical procedure, check into your surgeon’s credentials. And even more important, make sure the place you are having surgery is credentialed by a reputable accreditation agency such as the Joint Commission in the USA. You want to put your life in the hands of people who work under the highest standards of care. This case is so tragic. When you go under anesthesia (even local anesthesia as in this case) there is always a possibility that something could go wrong in an instant and you want to know that people are well trained to handle an emergency. Thank you Gisela for raising awareness of this horrible situation. 💖
I'd like to know how he was able to open like that! Or, did he just treat his wife like this cuz he didn't care? She shouldn't have been touching medicine and IV bags at all!!! Especially if she's a patient!!!
Seriously! My oral surgeon has a crash cart. He told me not to be scared by seeing it when he brought it in the room when I had 2 back teeth pulled and bone graphing done. Imagine a plastic surgeon not having one. Wild
Me too?????????????? How could he be doing breast recon etc as advertised without gen anaesth, monitors & crash??? How could he also get through an iv bag in local anaesth??? No count of her valium use prior, Oy Vey 😱
Mixtures of different local anesthetics are often made by pulling the top off one bottle and diluting it with saline or other things, that doesn't surprise me as long as the mixture is calculated correctly. More concerning is not having someone to administer sedation and specifically monitor the patient is head-shakingly unbelievable. Not having Oxygen, or an EKG, or paying attention to toxic calculated limits of local anesthetics especially when doing more than one procedure at a time is stunning. If anyone ought to have intralipid (treatment for local anesthetic overdose) on-site it should be a plastics office.
I love my Botox though lol. I don't want to look tired or angry when I'm not but to each their own. Surgery is a little extreme to me but this guy sounds like a lunatic.
@@kweenz109 And I think, if it’s your choice and nobody talks you in to „you need to do this changes“ it’s totally fine. Plus it’s not that extreme what he did to her. Purely gravity of experiments IMO
@@kweenz109 Right it’s like addictions, a friend of mine, she has so much natural beauty, but the last years she got so addicted going under riskful surgeries, even fly to different country’s to let it done.
Thank you so much for covering this! I live here and am glad to see the story getting the attention it deserves. I’m a nurse and about five or so years ago this doctor built a facility and started flooding the local channel with advertisements. I was immediately repulsed by him because he always adopted a bored and arrogant affectation in those commercials. Because his clinic was new and shiny and due to all of the commercials his clinic became the darling of small town society wannabes. About 18 months ago he started advertising BBLs. Being in healthcare I’m aware that this is one of the most dangerous surgeries you can get due to the high risk of developing a fat embolism. You should always go to a doctor that specializes in this and has lots of experience. He didn’t seem to specialize in anything other than what was trending. I honestly thought that it would end up being swept under the rug because the county is very corrupt. The victim isn’t very sympathetic but her family still deserves to see justice for his negligence and he should never be allowed to so much as empty a bedpan.
Wow! Thank you so much! I live in Miami, so not terribly far away. I saw a different part of the healthcare recovery from cosmetic surgery gone wrong (the emotional side and unexpected financial cost and stress of recovering). I also saw the toll it takes on good and caring physicians caring for the after effects of poor decisions of other physicians. Thank you so much for explaining what happened to get them there.
I’m confused “victim is not very sympathetic “? What that mean? She’s dead how can she show sympathy to anyone? Sympathic does not mean worthy of sympathy, and who are you to say she’s unworthy of sympathy? She had no proclivities about plastic surgery before?! Clearly her motive wasn’t exactly vanity, I bet he made her feel that if she looked a certain way he would love her again like he did when he first met her and why she was so gung hoe about the procedures. She was good looking before! She wasn’t addicted to surgery she was desperate to make her husband happy and he kept moving the goal posts on her complaining about new issues of her looks everytime she fixed his first complaints! He was trying to tear her down make her feel not good enough to love so she’d keep going to all ends to placate him meanwhile her pandering gave him supply, control and laugh at her nerotic desperation to please him!
@@joanbaczek2575 I’m really sorry, but I think you missed her point. Her point wasn’t about Hillary and her choices for cosmetic surgery. Her point was about how a physician was unprofessional and, frankly, the definition of cringey, and there were terrible consequences to that, including the death of his wife.
In the 1990’s we had a local plastic surgeon arrested and charged for having several patients getting infections, and horrible horrible mistakes during surgery, mutilating several women..he operated in the basement of his office with minimal to no staff and often in the middle of the night… he essentially got a slap on the wrist, small jail time but did get banned from ANY medical practice in the US…when he got out of jail, he went to Mexico…🤷🏻♀️. So scary… thanks G!
There is no way in HELL I would let the man I want to DIVORCE do surgery on me!! Not victim blaming or shaming, but the last thing I would want is to be totally incapacitated by anesthesia and be at the mercy of someone who might not have the best of intentions! Florida needs to make it a law that this is illegal!
If you are surrounded by people who look like they are 25years old all the time, you become aware of your changing due to aging and they are not. You start thinking if you had cosmetic surgery, you could look better too. I asked my husband if I could have surgery. His response, "Surgery is an "Assault on the body. No one should have un-necessary surgery."
@@melanieconnell4156 they should have them...that is just step ONE in a crises. Them the ambulance can get them to a hospital in case they need heart surgery, ICU etc
@@devilmaycry9969they are I'm a pharmacy technician and restock the surgery center across the street I don't think the op has ever been a nurse for a surgery center 😅 they all have crash carts and defibrillators.
Tumesent is lidocaine with epinephrine diluted with injectable saline. When I used this mixture in plastic surgery with the surgeon I worked with they will inject prior to liposuction. I have worked as a surgical technician for a long time and I have never had a surgeon operate on their own family members especially a wife. It may be legal here in Florida but not common practice with any of the doctors I have ever worked with. Very 😔 how he got away with not having a defibrillator or even oxygen is CRAZY. Especially if he is sedating people. Everyone person is different so take more medication and some need very little. Amazing it took this long for someone run into serious problems 😊
He sounds like a good candidate for the Dr. Death TV series. Narcissist, inflated ego, hyperinflated confidence in his own abilities, doesn't know what he doesn't know. He's a butcher.
This is why most surgeons will not treat family members. Further, the American Medical Association is against it. Surgeons shouldn't operate on themselves, either.
@@cheyc666Local anesthesia. Depending on the procedures you technically can do it. But I'm assuming OP meant doctors in general shouldn't treat themselves
I’ve been an anesthesia provider in the US for 20 years. There are many many offices in this country where there are no qualified providers that are emergency trained, and along with that these offices do not have any regulations so they do not have emergency equipment. I’m sure this doctor realized what he did. A local anesthesia overdose rarely happens by a quality provider, but there is an antidote for these overdoses. The take away is never have a procedure in an office that is not accredited. If the place where you’re having your procedure done has no accreditation run the other way.
It's the same in veterinary medicine too!! 💔🐾💔 Many vets and vet Tech's are not trained in life saving measures. I worked for a vet clinic where the veterinarian told a woman that her pug needed to have one of his eyes removed. The pug coded and no one, not even the veterinarian, knew how to use or turn on the defibrillator. Her pug died on the table and the vet told the owner it was from unexplained complications. If her dog had received life saving measures, he would have lived. The veterinarian had recently done the same surgery on a bulldog, this was the first time he had ever done this surgery, and had the medical book splayed open on the dogs stomach for reference as he preformed the surgery. After this, numerous people were told that their dog's needed to have their eye(s) removed -- mostly with no reason. It's grotesque what atrocities are committed in the medical field at the hands of the greedy.
@@stellaallbright4750the thing is veterinary medicine doesn’t have the litigation that human medicine has. Vets aren’t regulated and no one checks them, so things happen and there’s no repercussions
This is all beyond horrible. And the story about the unwanted and unexpected brazilian butt lift is just so shocking. If you don’t already know, a BBL (brazilian butt lift) is known for being THE MOST deadly cosmetic procedure you can have done. This procedure consists of having fat liposuctioned out of certain areas of your body (like stomach, back, thighs) and then re-injected into your buttocks. It’s such a big procedure to have done and you’re gonna need to take time off work, have someone to help you in the first however many days etc etc. Basically just this isn’t like a brow lift thing, it’s serious surgery, dangerous high-risk surgery at that. I cannot even imagine having that done to me unknowingly and un-consensually. This man seems like an actual dangerous sadist or smth I don’t even have the words to describe this.
Absolutely no judgement for people who choose cosmetic surgery in their life. His behavior in his promotional video was very odd and would put me off completely to seeing him as my doctor regardless of his specialty.
It’s going to be very interesting. What I wanna know is, did he do his due diligence to find out what levels of what drugs she may have had in her body? I had gallbladder surgery in December 2022, and my surgeon was SO careful about everything, he checked it a couple times.
@@AlpineArtsIt's a sure bet that he did not. The woman who quit working in his clinic after three weeks stated that his practice did not chart a full record of which substances and how much of each were used during the procedures. I would be shocked if any attention was paid to what may have been in her system prior to the start of procedures that day. Or on any other day. Or for any other patient on any given day. Insane stuff.
I agree with you, Gisela. It is on him, as the medical professional, to gatekeep the medical profession and practice from others around him. It’s not on the office manager (also the doctor’s wife) to determine where the line is and isn’t for her as a medical professional because she isn’t one.
How in the hell does a plastic surgeon be so negligent that they run out of lidocaine of all things??? Or so negligent they don't make sure they have everything they might need in order to complete a procedure ?
Why she need local shots of lidocaine if she under general anesthesia? And oral pain meds? The crap he mixed in the bowl was probably topical lidocaine and he injected it or very high in epinephrine which that alone can drive blood pressure so high you stroke out!
Nurses ALWAYS have the right to refuse a Dr. order if they think it's unsafe. The Nurse''s license may be in jeopardy as well. The standard is "what would a prudent Nurse do?"
The documents state that no nurses were there. I guarantee the staff was medical assistants who do not have a licensing board. In some areas of the US, they have a certification but in general they work under the provider's license and are much cheaper than actual nurses.
Florida has become a "developing" country when it comes too medicine. You question how all these different professionals became licensed. It has to be corruption. His office has passed inspections and he was still performing while waiting for a lawsuit.
Thank you G. and Mods. Absolutely horrific. So glad this so-called Doctor has been taken off the roster. Never heard of so many blatant violations of medical ethics/procedures. I think he shamed her into unnecessary procedures. Very sad.
I was waiting to learn his diploma and license were fakes. Doesn't seem like he had any training!No oxygen ? His untrained wife stitching herself and doing procedures on patients?! How was this place passing inspections?
There are so many medical questions that you I have for this doctor! Also, why would you as his surgical team work with a doctor who doesn't have life-saving measures in his office?
At least in Canada, if the nurse follows a doctor's order that is wrong and harmful to the patient, and she is expected to know that it is wrong and could cause harm. She would be held more accountable than the doctor. You are expected to understand every drug you give, and its appropriate dosage. And the drug is pronounced VER - sed. The pre op cocktail is really unusual too. I don't blame her, but perhaps both of them were impaired by medication. Or maybe she simply had no knowledge to understand how inappropriate what she was being allowed to do - asking along with the doctor for more medication, preparing IV bags etc - was.
I have always wanted to get a couple of procedures done for different things but cases like this make me thankful that I can’t afford it!!! This poor woman! It seems very deliberate to me. I would like to know if there’s a life insurance policy for her. But he’s a doctor!! He shouldn’t need any money right?? Listening to his “advertisment” sounded more like he was reading some cue cards or something. Also, the fact that his practice was so lax makes me wonder if he learned this from an example that was set for him by his father. This makes me wonder how many doctors offices are as laid back as Dr. Brown’s. Not just plastic surgeons offices. It’s almost impossible to know. Kinda scary if you ask me. Prayers for her babies and her parents and other family. This was probably very preventable. It usually is! 🙄😢🫣 Thank you Gisela! As always, you are saving lives one case/video at a time!! Keep up the great work!! Stay awesome!! Y’all be good and take care!! 🫶🏼✌🏼Peace!!✌🏼🫶🏼
Why would he planned to kill his wife during a procedure he was preforming? He would suffer consequences anyways. The stories of his patients and the history of malpractice makes a strong case for another malpractice tragedy. He is guilty of her death regardless. Even if was indeed malpractice, to constantly put people in danger like that you need to have no regards for human life and probably a God complex.
He probably didn't want to call 911 because he was more worried about his license and practice than his wife. How does he even had a license ?! No regards for human life and so many cases of malpractice
Brought to mind for me the case of Bruce Pancake MD in Chattanooga TN. Plastic surgeon who was under investigation, being sued for botched surgeries by 30+ patients, etc. He didn't have any patients who died under his care but he self-terminated at his office when all this came to light. you can find the lawsuit online, but I'm not sure how it was settled.
She wasn’t even aging! He was purposely making her ugly! He couldn’t stand she was beautiful so he made her odd looking thinking that it garentees she won’t leave him for better- mean while he’d complain she looks ugly so she’d get his procedures so maybe he’d love her again
versed is midazolam. It's used before or during surgery and nothing to fool around with. I don't think there's any conjecture this was intentional, but it's been used in many murders. (It's pronounced Ver-sad, at least in my region) I didn't know that it could be administered without an anesthesiologist present, but maybe Florida is different. AEDs have dropped in price dramatically. I can't understand why there wasn't one present The new ones can be operated by anyone - they speak instructions to you à you use it
Plastic surgery involves assessing the patient for mental health issues before operating. It sounds like his wife should have been reassessed before having any more plastic surgery.
Hello G! Catching the replay on this case! Wow! This is super scary and I’m surprised too that this doctor was allowed to operate on his spouse! So terrible! 😢😮
Did you previously cover the sad death of Karissa Rajpaul? I’m wondering if that is a guide as to what we might expect in this case. In that instance the guilty parties were a mother and daughter running an unregulated clinic out of their home. Given their actions and the extent of their culpability the sentences handed down were woefully inadequate. Somewhat similar to here, there was both medical malpractice and decisions which directly contributed to treatment being unsuccessful. The entire sector needs to be better regulated and sentencing providing more of a deterrent.
I am just 20 mins away from this man’s office. When I was looking into getting my cosmetic surgery. It was a toss up between this man and another doctor. I am so thankful I went with the other doctor located in Destin, and not doctor Brown!
Wow, crazy town! How tragic. I'm sure you've heard this now, but it's ver-"said" (versed) -- 2 syllables. Thanks for all you do, I love your channel, mostly because of the way you care about each victim.
Yikes! She took Gabapentin pre-op? That’s an epilepsy medication - I take it for neuropathic pain which it is also used for. One of my cats finds vet visits traumatic so I have to give him 100mg to keep him calm. This whole thing is bizarre and stinks? Is it just the photos or had she had surgery to change her eye colour? Her dad was right- she looked completely different . Ben is a quick mover- married to wife 1 in 2015 , 2kids and by 2021 he’s met and married wife 2. Hope justice is served.
It appears she had some issues herself--body dysmorphia and an addiction to plastic surgery. I am not saying he is innocent, but he may not have pushed surgery on her, but was trying to make her happy due to their volatile relationship. I am not saying he is innocent, but she may not have been abused or controlled as some stated
Lidocaine (Xylocaine), also known by the brand name Xylocaine MPF, is a local or regional anesthetic. It's given as an injection by a healthcare provider to numb a specific area of the body before certain procedures. It can be given by different routes, including through the veins (IV) or into the skin.
I was a pharmacy tech and worked in the O.R. to make sure they had the meds they needed for a specific procedure. I don't know anyone who would stand by & watch that happen. He broke sterile procedure, didn't check inventory to see he had enough lidocaine. Plus played fast and loose with controlled medication. He may be addicted to some of those drugs. It's too easy when drugs are kept in his office unlocked.
Yikes, scary and absolutely tragic. How could he continue the procedures even when clear something was going wrong…disturbing and his medical license should be immediately revoked. Shameful, disgraceful, and criminal.
The bottom line is, regardless of what Hillary did in his practice, he is the doctor and is responsible to his patients, and was in a position that he should not have allowed it to happen……😢
G! Today I'm a replay watcher and wasn't able to see ya live this time, it's definitely different not being able to chat with everyone! Lol! I have been an enjoyer of what ya do for a long time, and it's always top notch coverage! Mods are fantastic too, your channel is like a little den for us Grizzlies, and we're grateful for you! 🐻❤
I remember working for a dentist in the late 70’s and the dentist used his girlfriend as a guinea pig!!! I could never ever even let him work on me ever!!! No gloves and grinding her teeth over and over!!! He was very good friends with my grandparents but I couldn’t stand it, and QUIT!!!!
Was it succinylcholine? 🤔 I feel like I’ve heard this story a hundred times, just different people. So sad for Hillary and her children and loved ones. 😢🕊️
I have heard of so many BBLs going wrong or having devastating complications after. People like to say that they go wrong in countries outside of the US or they have complications after they come back from surgery elsewhere. No. I’m talking about procedures carried out in the US with complications from doctors doing the procedures in the US. Again, no shame in cosmetic procedures, but please, use well-trained physicians that have strict standards for their procedures for your own health and safety.
Omg! I live in Pensacola. My neighbor was a good friend and went to her funeral. This is so sad. She trusted her husband to do surgery and she dies under his care. This is was too close to home. It was an accident but tragic nonetheless.
I live in Gulf Breeze and have been in the medical field since ‘84. His office is closed & overgrown thankfully . Known quacks in Florida are rarely dealt with. If they actually revoke his license, he can just go to another state besides Florida and keep going. It’s an outrage
