Women sue a local surgeon over alleged botched breast surgeries

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Women sue a local surgeon over alleged botched breast

surgeries

a plastic surgeon on the Upper East Side of Manhattan

botched their breast surgeries. This isn't the first

time this doctor has been accused of negligence.

The Investigators Wallace has the exclusive

report.

There's a common theme here: the women all allege that

Plastic Surgeon Dr. Brad s put in implants that

were too big for their bodies -- and that they never

wanted to be that big. As a result, they claim in a

lawsuit they've been physically and psychologically

damaged.

Felice Rosenbaum's wedding video should bring her

joyous memories for years to come. Instead, watching

it brings her to tears for all the wrong reasons.

Felice: " I am afraid that all I am going to do is

look at my breasts and at this dress. "

Felice, a sales consultant, claims that last August

she went to Dr. s for a lift. She'd been

impressed with his Web site. Felice claims he

convinced her to get implants.

Felice: " I wanted to be a 'b' "

Wallace: " What did you get? "

Felice: " A full 'c,' almost a 'd' "

Then, she says, this began to happen: " The skin

started to separate from the stitches ... and the

wounds were just tremendous. "

Even three months later under that beautiful wedding

dress, Felice says all she she kept thinking about was

the ugliness of those sores. Dr. s' explanation?

Felice: " He blamed me. It was my fault. My eating

habits weren't proper. "

If you think you're still looking at Felice's photos,

you're wrong. These are from a Wisconsin woman who won

a partial jury verdict against Dr. s in Manhattan

last year.

Attorney : " He inserted implants that were

just way too big for her body, and as a result, she

has a separation of the wound. "

is now representing Felice Rosenbaum and two

other s breast patients, Rodriquez and

Cornelia Ion -- a dancer who first went to s a

year and a half ago.

Cornelia: " I would see a separation right here of the

implant, a separation between the implant and me. "

Cornelia says s convinced her to get a bigger

implant: " I made it very clear to him I don't want to

be a double d.... and I started noticing depressions

in my aureolas, indentations, and as the weeks were

coming, they would just get sucked in even more and

more. "

She says a third surgery slightly helped but claims

she's still deformed.

" I can't even imagine this summer coming and wearing a

bathing suit ? I just can't, " she said.

Cornelia claims Dr. s' has continually made

excuses: " He's blaming me, he's blaming my body. "

She went back to Dr. s wearing an undercover

camera to discuss what to do next.

s: " You should eventually catch up and heal. ...

Actually, it looks pretty damn good. "

He told her to take vitamins and do massage -- and she

claims tried to talk her out of going to another

doctor.

s: " I do have access to better brains, not the

morons to get this handled properly. Okay. Say you're

shopping around here and people are going, it's open

on the bottom. Shut up, that guy is an idiot. "

Rodriquez says she went to Dr. s last

September to replace silicone implants he'd previously

put in that had leaked.

: " With my rib cage, right under here. I get a

sharp pain where I can't breathe. "

Wallace: " Do you feel like they're too big? "

: " They are enormous ... I just I don't like

the size. I didn't ask for this. "

Attorney : " It's the identical scenario.

It's almost like an mo. ... He has these patients, he

puts in implants that are way too big for their body,

that are bigger than than what they ask for. ... it

causes medical consequences. "

Cornelia and say they can't afford new

surgeries with other doctors to take their implants

out. Felice has had her implants removed.

Felice: " The psychological effects are not gone. My

husband and I want to start a family, that has to wait

now because I have to heal. "

She continues: " I went to him, I trusted him, he

abused me, he abandoned me, and violated me. "

The attorney for Dr. s said he will have

absolutely no comment and not to contact him.

(Copyright 2006 WABC-TV)