Malpractice. Disfigurement... A surgeon's dead wife. A state of emergency.
This week on Credentialing Chronicles, Shannen & Nyleen investigate the horrifying case of Dr. Ben Brown, a Florida plastic surgeon whose practice was declared an "immediate, serious danger to the public."
From a patient's post-surgical wound resembling a "ribeye laying on my stomach" to a "total collapse of judgment" that left his own 33-year-old wife dead after procedures in his clinic, this isn't just malpractice. It’s a terrifying, systemic failure of oversight, accountability, and basic medical ethics.
🔥 In this episode:
• What investigators found inside the "dirty, poorly maintained" and unregistered office.
• The chilling timeline of the surgeon's wife's death—from mixing her own anesthesia to the 20-minute delay in calling 911.
• How patients who explicitly declined procedures allegedly woke up with them anyway, leading to disfigurement and necrosis.
• Why "Hillary's Law," a bill filed to stop surgeons from operating on family in an office setting, died in subcommittee.
• The critical verification steps (ABPS, AAAASF, TJC) every patient and credentialing pro must use to spot the red flags.
🧾 With a surgeon still licensed to practice (under supervision) after being deemed an "immediate, serious danger," this isn’t just a headline—it’s a wake-up call.
If you work in credentialing, medical board oversight, risk management, or patient safety, this episode proves: you are the last line of defense.
🎧 Listen now — and don’t forget to share, tag your compliance crew, and make some noise.
An "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" on a practitioner's record.
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