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POSTED UNDER Breast Lift with Implants REVIEWS

I will never have areolas again, they will be tattooed on

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MAIMED BY DR. Tracy Baker

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elibrizue
$17,000

- [ ] June 21, 2023 breast lift with Dr. Tracy Baker.

- [ ] I paid extra to spend the night at his facility nevertheless, he never came to see me. They just discharged me after waiting for him for hours.

- [ ] June 23, 2023 I called Dr. Tracy Baker’s office and asked to be seen because my nipples and areolas were turning purple. The nurse Noelia told me that I would have to wait until my week postop appointment that it was normal for them to turn purple. (I called and emailed for a few days asking begging to be seen and she told me I would have to wait).

- [ ] June 29, 2023 at my follow up appointment with Dr. Tracy Baker. He informed me that I had necrosis and that I would need to have Leach treatment.

- [ ] June 30, 2023 I was leeched (5 long leaches on each breast) for about 3 1/2 hours at Dr. Tracy Baker’s office. I asked him how would I know if it the treatment would work and he said if the leeches bite it will work.

- [ ] July 1, 2023 I received my second leaching treatment which also took about 3 1/2 hours. My ride was running 15 minutes late and the nurse asked me to wait outside of the building because the building would close at two and I would be locked inside the building in the lobby. I fainted due to the loss of blood ???? due to two consecutive over three hour sessions of leeching. I suffered the most horrible fall I’ve ever had.

- [ ] Finally, on July 3, 2023 I received my third and final leaching treatment.

- [ ] I noticed my breast were getting worse instead of better I emailed and called and reported it to the nurse. She said it was normal.

- [ ] When I ask Dr. Baker to remove the implants and start to debridement he said that it would mess up all the pocket work he did. So he waited.

- [ ] Finally, July 17, 2023 I had my first debridement. I had a debridement every day that week, except for Thursday.

- [ ] Friday, July 21, 2023 after the debridement procedure I was told that on Monday, July 24, 2023 they would do an additional debridement, removing my nipples as well.

- [ ] July 24, 2023 I had to sign the consent for debridement of my nipples with Dr. Baker’s coordinator Elizabeth Betancourt. She stated that the reason this happen to you is because of all those breast surgeries. No empathy whatsoever. She was under the impression that I had many breast surgery with other doctors because she could only find my records from 2016.

- [ ] July 24, 2023 Dr. Baker before removing my nipples told me that he had spoken to his buddy Dr. Louis P. Bucky, from Harvard medical school. Dr. Bucky and told him to take off those nipples and he would fly in and have dinner with him and create me the best most beautiful nipples I’ve ever seen. He then told me that he spoke to the board that governs plastic surgeons regarding this issue and reported that what messed up this Procedure was the technique that the surgeon used in 1998 and 1999 for breast augmentation. And that he does not do that technique. I reminded him in front of his OR nurse Stephanie that it was him that did those two procedures for me. He asked Dr. Ramirez the anesthesiologist to pull up his records on the computer in the operating room to confirm. Dr. Ramirez the anesthesiologist confirmed that Dr. Tracy Baker performed my procedures in 1998 and 1999 (I have audio of the entire conversation as well as audio from other sessions of wound healing). I suffered bilateral nipple areola complex necrosis with deep wounds. About 3 inches deep and 3 inches in width or more. Now that I do not have to have my wounds cared for a need a reconstruction, and Dr. Baker said that he cannot provide. Post op care for me. He is not qualified for this type of reconstruction.

- [ ] I will never have Ariola’s again. They will be tattooed on. I am receiving psychotherapy every Wednesday at lunchtime.

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Tracy M. Baker, MD

Tracy M. Baker, MD

Board Certified Plastic Surgeon

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November 24, 2023
I am so. So sorry this happened to you. Hoping for a better ending outcome for you
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November 24, 2023
Thank you.
November 25, 2023
I'm so sorry babe. Praying you find an amazing tattoo artist! It's going to be beautiful.
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November 25, 2023
Thank you!
November 28, 2023
So sorry you went through this. What a horrible doctor. He needs to lose his license!
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November 28, 2023
The Florida Legislature has passed several laws over the last 20 or more years, that have made it increasingly difficult to sue health care providers for their negligence. Further, the Florida Department of Health website related that he’s practicing without insurance. The State of Florida allows this. Further, Florida is known as a “debtor’s state” where it is easy to avoid payment of judgments. Doctors who practice without insurance also take steps to protect their assets from judgments making it extremely difficult to collect against them. I am trying to create awareness and hopefully have others seek doctors with malpractice insurance. If they require an expensive bilateral breast reconstruction their doctor’s insurance should cover that and recovery expenses (because I will have to hire someone to help me for at least three weeks). Thank you for caring.
January 12, 2024
The law has to change to protect not only women but everyone else. This not a third world country, but it seems like it's a meat market.
UPDATED FROM elibrizue
5 months post

You should plan a budget for reconstruction surgery

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I am currently seeking a reconstruction facility. I may have to have a DIEP Flap reconstructive procedure which is done using tissue from your lower abdominal. I received a quote from a reconstruction center and Louisiana for $80,000 not including travel and accommodations.

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November 24, 2023
If anyone can a reconstruction facility, I would truly appreciate it.
UPDATED FROM elibrizue
5 months post

4 days post op and they refused to see me

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I called the nurse Noelia and she told me I had to wait until my week follow up. She said it was normal for them to turn purple. I was in excruciating pain. After, I lost my breast she said “you are getting a revision”.

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April 29, 2024
Well, she was undoubtedly not licensed and even worse, no medical education and/or schooling. Is this legal to work as a nurse or medical assistant without a licensed or medical school education?