Plastic Surgery Horror Story

I did not need scar revision surgeries until Dr. Kim. I did not need breast reconstructive surgeries until Dr. Kim. I didn't have one visible scar on either one of my breasts until Dr. Kim botched my breast implant exchange surgery and scarred and mangled my breasts. She LIED in my medical records and made up medical conditions she said I had to have excuses why I ended up this way. She said I had a condition called "Symmastia". (Symmastia is when the breast pockets cross the midline and meet in the middle, lifting the skin off of the sternum.) She NEVER mentioned Symmastia to me. She said in my medical records that she was "Going to try and correct my Symmastia" and that she went into "GREAT DETAIL" with me about the challenges of Symmastia surgery. The first time I ever heard of the word Symmastia was when I read what she wrote in my medical records AFTER she botched my surgery. 1.) Why did she not take pictures of my Symmastia condition? 2.) Not probable she would charge me nothing, zero to perform this complicated & risky surgery. 3.) I did not consent to her performing Symmastia surgery on me and never signed a consent form for it. There was no Symmastia. She just made it up. If Dr. Kim had told me I had such a serious condition, I would have gotten a 2nd opinion from another doctor. She mentioned several times in my medical records that I "complained about pain and firmness in my right breast". I NEVER complained about pain or firmness in my right breast. The reason I went to Dr. Kim was that my LEFT breast saline implant was leaking. In the medical records she claimed I had "Grade IV capsular contracture". Grade IV capsular contracture is defined as "The breast is hard, painful and looks abnormal". Once again, she lied about a condition I had as another excuse she could use to justify her botching the surgery. There are more things she added or altered in my medical records AFTER she botched my surgery but are too many to list in this review. If Dr. Kim did nothing wrong, then why would she need to lie and make things up? As a result of her lying in my medical records, it kept me from getting a true assessment from another doctor of how and why this happened to me. Their opinion would be based on her lies. Dr. Kim has her surgery room right in her office. My surgery was scheduled for 3:30 to 5:00 PM. I had to sign a document that if my ride was not there by 5:00 to pick me up, I would be charged $500.00. I have always thought that the reason she botched my surgery was because she was rushed, sloppy and careless. I now know she is obviously unskilled. I arrived for my appointment at 1:30 and sat in the reception area until right around 3:30. Then they took me in the back to get prepped for surgery. What I recall was that everyone was rushed. Dr. Kim stuck her head in the door for about 10 seconds while I was getting prepped for surgery. She looked at me, did not say anything and then shut the door. That is the only time I remember seeing Dr. Kim that day. On my 1st follow-up visit after my surgery, I told Dr. Kim I was concerned about the horrible, deep and bloody wound she caused on my upper right breast. She just ignored my concern and walked out of the room. She avoided me after that and let her nurses handle all my follow up visits. Dr. Kim has RUINED my life in so many ways. She has also cost me thousands of dollars. I had to pay thousands for her botched surgery. I had to pay thousands of dollars to another doctor to have the implants removed... the ones she had just put in just a few months earlier. It will now cost me thousands of dollars to have scar revision and breast reconstructive surgeries...which I can not afford. She destroyed the body part she was supposed to enhance. Then she brazenly lies in my medical records to try and cover up her botching the surgery. It's unthinkable...but that is exactly what she did.