Patients are shocked to learn Orange County plastic surgeon Dr. Arian Mowlavi was under investigation by the Medical Board of California and recently had his license suspended 3 years after a patient death.
She says she had no idea that 3 months before her surgery, Mowlavi had paid a million-dollar settlement to the family of the woman who died after surgery. But that settlement is not part of Mowlavi’s record on the medical board website. Settlements will only appear if there are 3 or more in a 5-year period, and patient advocates complain not all settlements get reported to the medical board.
I think the laws need to change. I think the Medical Board needs to change... I'm a hairdresser and the State Board of Cosmetology is so on you, I mean for hair! Why isn't it like that for doctors?“Then they proceeded to say, ‘Go to the surgery room,' which was next door, without any clothes. I was naked,” said Martini. “I just remember in my head going, ‘Millie, you need to run.’”
She says despite frequent visits to Mowlavi’s office, she later learned she had sepsis, a potentially deadly infection. "I remember panicking, waking up, and I woke up to a double mastectomy,' said Martini."I was never told."Millie Martini, Patient
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