Botched Liposuction on TikTok

Back in July, an Ohio plastic surgeon lost her medical license after the state medical board investigated her for live streaming operations on TikTok and causing harm to patients in the process. TikTok fans may know this doctor by the name Dr. Roxy. She gained millions of views and followers over the past few years by live streaming plastic surgeries from her office. Surgeries like liposuctions, implants, and butt lifts.

She stares directly into the camera while suctioning fat from people's bodies. She often prances around the operating room, hugging and high-fiving her patients, right before they're about to go under the knife. She's good at talking to the camera. Real good. Although sometimes she does use some questionable props (like a ham sandwich to explain a labiaplasty).

The journalist Judith Newman began as a viewer of Dr. Roxy's videos, and then she reported on Dr. Roxy's case. She's interviewed dozens of former patients of Dr. Roxy's and covered her hearing. Judith has had this front row seat to the downfall of a TikTok plastic surgeon and she is here to give us the whole crazy story.