What a pain in the rear!
A Houston man claims an Upper East Side plastic surgeon botched his butt implant, sending him to the intensive care unit, according to a lawsuit.
Lewis Scott Brogan, 54, says his pre-procedure lab results showed he was in moderate kidney failure, but Park Avenue doc Douglas Steinbrech plowed ahead with the 11-hour procedure at Gotham Plastic Surgery on the Upper East Side while failing to insert a catheter, Brogan alleged in Manhattan Supreme Court papers.
Without the catheter, the physician couldn’t monitor Brogan’s “fluid intake and output,” and left the Texas entertainment executive with “significant” cardiac and pulmonary problems, until he was rushed to the ICU at Weill Cornell Medical Center from the December 2021 procedure.
Brogan claimed he was discharged from a seven-day hospital stay at Weill Cornell in “ongoing excruciating pain” from his implant and had a high white blood cell count, which indicated infection, according to the legal filing against Steinbrech, Gotham Plastic Surgery, Weill Cornell and others.
“There were a few issues we believe that were departures from the standard of care,” said Brogan’s attorney, Gerald Grunsfeld. “It’s like one mistake compounding on each other.”
Brogan had sought out the surgery as a way to lift his spirits after an horrendous attack in his own home months earlier which left him “disfigured,” Grunsfeld said.
The implant had to be removed and Brogan said in the legal filing he was left with “severe depression and financial ruin.”
He’s seeking unspecified damages.
Gotham declined comment and referred questions to Steinbrech, who did not immediately respond to a message.
Weill Cornell did not respond to a message seeking comment.