Botched NYC butt lift left Texas man infected and depressed, suit claims

Where are doc’s nudes?

I don't know about his ass but he should have left his face alone.

Doctor is kinda cute. I don't like his smile or teeth.

54?! Oh please. More like 64.

A butt-left at 54?

To quote Jennifer North, “To hell with it - let ‘em droop!”

Again...54?

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.

Was he anally attacked?

Dumb and Dumberer.

So he's had all four of his lips tampered with, and all for procedures appear to be botched.

Doctor is cute

An 11 hour butt lift???

What in the silicone implant hell?

That's an old photo of the doctor. This is more updated. He is polished and handsome and looks like he knows his way around a man's butt.

That's a rough 54.

At least he got the attention he so desperately wanted.

I went to this doctor! For my first time ever getting undereye fillers, a few years back. He and his staff were great. Wonder if this was just an inevitable outlier.

How does one end up in kidney failure (albeit moderate) at only 54? Maybe VoiceoftheNight can explain.

We have real MDs on Datalounge, let’s not page VOTN.

R11 Obviously the doctor butt-fucked him a number of times during surgery.

His facial plastic surgery is horrifying. Why do people want to do that to themselves? They don't look like young people when they get it; they look like older people desperately trying to look like young people.

At some point you have to choose between your ass and your face.

He chose both. And lost.

[quote] 54?! Oh please. More like 64.

He's practically embalmed at this point.

Forget his ass, he ought to sue whoever did that to his nose.

Meow, R16!

R22 OMG - the nose ! WTF happened to that ?

Have it all done. Honey, take my word. Grab a cab, c'mon. See the wizard on Park and Seventy-Third!

Did this asshole (literally!) read the disclosures that you have to sign before any medical procedure? My gastroenterologist left me alone with the disclosure form to sign, and out of boredom I read the entire form and possible side effects included everything from colonic perforation to death, and I was signing away the doctor's responsibility. I somehow doubt that this plastic surgeon just willy-nilly operates on wealthy Upper East Siders without some sort of disclosure and waiver in place.

But good luck to the buffoon who has obviously undergone botched plastic surgery procedures at least a couple of times. I wonder how his attorneys will keep his face out of sight of the jury? Will the judge have to instruct the jury to disregard the drooping face, crooked nose and hair plugs?

But I HATE dong squats and legs at the gym. I want a perky butt NOW!

The patient sort of resembles a wax museum version of Daniel Craig. After its air conditioning failed, in a heat wave.

R16, R15 here. Are you referring to VOTN's being a D.O.? (I think he's a D.O., anyway.) You understand that D.O.s go through almost the identical training and licensing as M.D.s, right? Any difference in D.O. MCAT scores and undergraduate GPAs is negligible. It's like comparing someone with a tested IQ of 155 to someone with an I.Q. of 160. At that level, who the fuck cares?

Okay, I'm now awaiting the jokes about my shitty IQ.......

R21 Speaking of the embalmed look, she is looking better than Mr. Brogan:

The patient has to take responsibility

[quote]But I HATE dong squats

I've never seen anybody do dong squats at my gym.

[quote] Lewis Scott Brogan, 54

Gurl, please. If you're really currently 54, then all that face work not only came out botched but also failed in your goal for it to make you look younger. Instead, it's made you look like you were 54 back in 1954. 🙄

Dr. Steinbrech can give me a prostate exam anytime.

No mention of his hairline?

It’s does look like a hard 54. But if he was a victim of a home invasion maybe that’s the reason why he looks like it, so perhaps we should bite our tongues and be nice. He’s likely a datalounger.

Erm, I don’t think the two halves of his face were fitted back together properly.

The Patient Has Two Faces.

R26, a patient can still sue for gross negligence even after signing any variety of waiver. (If successful, a gross-negligence suit would negate the original contractual terms.) That said, the bar for proving gross negligence is considerable – I doubt a forgotten catheter would suffice to establish it – but the hospital's medmal unit will probably settle the claim for a nominal amount.

R15, as someone who unfortunately has a close family member with a failed kidney due to a botched operation, the problem – in a nutshell – is that the guy couldn't pee for 11 hours, given his (alleged) lack of a catheter. Since he would've also been on a saline drip in the OR, I'm pretty sure the problem is simply that he was so backed up with urine for nearly a half-day that it proved deleterious to at least one of his kidneys. (They're more sensitive than many realize.)

Btw I know DLers have wildly unrealistic opinions about male beauty from chronic porn consumption, but this guy is in no way hideous, despite the botched facial work (the worst part being the eyes, now at slanted angles which can't be fixed). He's also not a "rough" 54.

I can’t understand the appeal of implants or foreign matter in your body. I’d be so concerned for inflammation around the area and the potential for your body to form tissue surrounding the implant.

It must feel freaky to detect the boundary of an implant, and even worse, deal with any form of trauma near an implant.

I’d stay away from anything like this except possibly reconstructive surgery if a dog or monkey bit off part of my face.

[quote]Park Avenue doc Douglas Steinbrech plowed ahead with the 11-hour procedure

This gives a whole new meaning to getting your ass plowed.

It is always so sad to see these guys destroy their natural aging looks by trying to look 25 again. He was not a bad looking guy (you can google him) but the facial work did him no favors. I am 63 and have accepted the fact I am not 25 or 35 anymore, the best I can hope for is to look good for my age.

Agreed, R41.

I am hypersensitive to so many things (when I was little, Mother used to call me "The Princess and the Pea" [obvs she knew some things about me]). I will scar from a fucking ant bite, and also tend to keloid.

I had an emergency 3-level anterior cervical disc fusion in 2011, and am grateful I had an extraordinarily gifted neurosurgeon, because 99% of people, including doctors, cannot detect the scar on my throat. I would NEVER take that level of risk for an elective, vanity procedure.

Still, I feel for the dude.

[quote]The Patient Has Two Faces.

The Butt Has Two Ass Cheeks

Peter Pan gets butt surgery and regrets it, details at 5 on action news!

His face looks like it’s made of Silly Putty.

Doc suggests Sam Shepard to me - quite hot. The patient looks dried out.

That surgeon looks a bit like the Preppy Kitchen YouTube baker John Kanell. He’s nice looking.

[quote] 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.

I want to know more. Aggressive fisting? DP gone awry?

All he really needs is a bit more fillers and light botox on the forehead and around the eyes. Maybe fluff up the lips a bit more.

Maybe this guy just has bad luck....

All those resources will soon be available to victims like Scott Brogan, who said he was a victim of a violent crime three weeks ago in his own home. The suspect, he said, was a complete stranger.

"In 71 minutes, a total stranger broke into my home and tried to murder me with a lawnmower blade and a metal walking stick," Brogan said. "For people like me, we need to have guidance. Being victim doesn't come with a manual."

I get body image issues, but what did he think this would accomplish? He's suddenly be the desired bottom for any hot and willing top he came across. Also, would it end at the butt lift or was it just the start of a whole series of "fixes"? That said, obviously it's unfortunate that the whole thing was botched and that he got sick as a result.

God I'd hate to be a plastic surgeon. All those years of training and the expense of medical school to cut up on neurotics and live perpetual fear of lawsuits and unhappy outcomes. OTOH the ocular plastic surgeon who botoxes me a few times a year is one of the most jubilant guys I know.

[quote] God I'd hate to be a plastic surgeon. All those years of training and the expense of medical school to cut up on neurotics and live perpetual fear of lawsuits and unhappy outcomes.

That’s why surgeons tend to be sociopaths, they don’t have those kind of hangups.

The surgeon is handsome but would you really want a plastic surgeon who is obviously desperately in need of an upper lip but chooses to do nothing?

Don’t look for compassion on Datalounge. Unless it’s for pets.

With a face like that it should be illegal to get a butt lift.

[quote]"For people like me, we need to have guidance. Being victim doesn't come with a manual."

Presumably, a victim's manual would have dissuaded him from the butt lift.

The Dr is sexy but it appears he has been the subject of a lawsuit before.

His face is tragic. He should look younger but makes him seem older instead.

Since he lives in Houston he should have just gone across the border. He would have had the same results and complications for far less money.

Houstonians have huge inferiority complexes so it makes sense he went to a Park Avenue plastic surgeon.

R61 Most doctors are, and many times.

The break-in and assault was from “a total stranger,” the victim keeps reminding us. Mmm-hmm.

Sounds more like a drunken 3 AM Grindr hookup gone wrong. The hook up took one look at his flat, flabby, “54”-year-old ass and was so disappointed, he went ballistic on him with a lawnmower blade. That’s what happens when you use outdated photos!

NEVER AGAIN, thought the victim. But instead of updating the photos, he decided to update his ass. Now look what happened.

I am curious was this really a butt lift or was this one of those anal Rejuvenation operations?

Is this the doctor or the patient?

R65 how many doctors get sued for sharing patients’ photos with internet porn sites?

Hopefully, the face is still swollen and will settle down with time and a keto diet with vodka.

Still, I can see the temptation. It was the sight of my own ass that helped me retire. Pants hold this shit up.

[quote] the face is still swollen and will settle down with time

Or ride up with wear!

Lol notice how the Texas guy went to New York for surgery? You’d never hear a New York guy going to TEXAS for surgery. All you need to know. She did it for reasons well known to her.

He should have gone to Venezuela. Take a look at Miss Venezuela contestants; they all look so much alike after the surgery, which is paid for by the pageant. Their faces are gorgeous, and if there was a butt lift anywhere among them, you really couldn't tell. They're taught hold to walk and to pose, which is identically.

Here is the 1994 pageant. The swimsuit competition, where you see all contestants compete, is 53 minutes in. Each contestant gets a well-known Venezuelan designer to design her personal gown. Everyone in the country watches it year to year. The pageant can last three to four hours, but no one complains.

It will be a relief when this youthful fellow finally puts this mess behind him.

R74, “behind” being the operative word.

Was he a DLer?

[quote] You’d never hear a New York guy going to TEXAS for surgery.

On the contrary, more New Yorkers have probably gone to Houston for life-saving surgeries than any other city. Houston is so famous for their cancer treatment centers it’s referenced in foreign movies (Volver comes to mind).

The difference is of course, that the Houston guy chose to go to New York for COSMETIC surgery. That I would agree with.

Houston trash!

If you’re trying to be discreet, probably better to go from a more populous state to a less populous state.

That guy is hideous. The doctor was trying to do a mercy killing.

Are there any gay porn stars who had this procedure? I’d love to see those buns in action.

Every Texas queen knows Dallas is the plastic surgery capital of the US.

Why did he need a butt lift? All anyone cares about is spreading the cheeks and presenting his hole. The World Is Sick and Getting Sicker.

It appears as if he's collecting botched procedures at this point. Aging sucks, but what a mess. He NEEDS to be spending his money on a psychiatrist.

Gay man ?

R82, your coded reference is quite clever. Dallas Steele had that surgery.

98% of those implants were for gay men.

insecure as fuck obviously.

I wish him well. I wonder if he's a DLer.

what does he do for a living?

So, he had his butt lifted onto his face?

Ass implants shouldn’t take ELEVEN hours. And any surgery that takes that long certainly needs a Foley catheter placed. Anyone that has mild kidney disease is at risk for developing kidney damage/failure when under anesthesia for ELEVEN hours for ANY type of surgery. Something is very wrong with this story.

Houston Lip Gloss and Buttlift Queen

Ironic that he ended up depressed when he was looking for a lift.

Jesus, squats aren’t fun, butt…

I'd fuck both their holes.

R88, I do remember back 7-8 years ago, a DLer made a post that autocorrected the word “brought” or something like that to “Brogan” and it was definitely Brogan SEVERAL times. The poster caught it later and blamed autocorrect.

I clearly remember the name because it sounded like the ultimate frat douche name, and I couldn’t believe that a DLer could be named or could have a friend named Brogan. Obviously this is Melty Ken’s last name, not first, but I wondered if it wasn’t him.

Hopefully as the bootie-war was expanded it shrunk the hallway.

Is it an overly high ass??? Did it fall sideways?

I can see that the patient, in his youth, was very good-looking. Blonde hair, blue eyes, nice nose and mouth. His looks probably took him far and he can’t let go of that currency that his youthful good looks gave him. He probably was the belle of the ball in his youth. I can’t believe I’m the only one who is noticing this.

Butt surgery, at least the Brazilian butt lift, is risky. If you think about it. You sit on your butt. Must be hard to heal back there when you’ve got the pressure from sitting down to eat, work on a computer, etc.

I hope this guy can learn to love himself as he ages and say “enough” to the idea of any further elective surgery.

His loft must be cluster after cluster of divans. He’s been eating and drinking his buyer’s remorse.

The break-in assault story (and grift) also seems fishy

via his linkedin------------

Built on the ten year foundation of outstanding cultural programming provided by the non-profit Brilliant Lecture Series, Brilliant Entertainment’s Founder and CEO Scott Brogan has produced the most extraordinary programming to the Houston and Texas region with a broad set of productions for an audience reaching nearly 100,000.

From Queen Noor to Sidney Poitier from President Gorbachev to George Clooney for spoken word programs. From performances with Betty Buckley to Texas Tenors to Linda Eder and Jim Brickman. From productions of Marilyn Forever Blonde to Potted Potter to Michael Jackson.

Brilliant Entertainment is a uniquely diverse entertainment company that produces touring productions, concerts and lecture programs with the most iconic people in the world and is a full service booking agency and consultancy

The 2014-2015 schedules thus far includes, Betty Buckley concert, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Michael Jackson Tribute concert, Bette Midler, Lone Survivor Marcus Luttrell, Texas Tenors performance, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Rob Lowe, Shaping Sound performance, Cirque Musica and Jim Brickman performance to name just a few!

Well association with Betty Buckley automatically puts him on DL’s hate list.

Betty Buckley’s career should have been so much BIGGER, except a booking clerk received a bad ass lift.

It’s always a garden gnome who betrays her. Poor Betty.

A friend had a butt lift in his late 50s or so. He complained to the surgeon that it didn’t give him a bubble butt.

The surgeon was like, uh, you realize that’s not possible right?

(Today I imagine people would use the same procedure that gives the Kardashians those awful fat asses.)

R104, why wouldn't it be an expectation, though? (That you'd get a bubble butt after a butt lift.)

You’re a grown man. No one cares about your butt. Grow the fuck up.

I though Marshall Applewhite ascended to the comet.

famous friends

He was in kidney failure and had elective surgery?

Lucky he didn't go to Mexico.

US health bosses are calling for a deadly fungal outbreak linked to cut-price plastic surgeries in Mexico to be declared an international health emergency.

So far, two Texan patients have died from the fungal brain infection, which doctors believe was contracted from unsterilized equipment south of the border after they had the discounted plastic surgeries.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is monitoring the condition of 195 more people who were given epidural anesthesia (injection into the spine to numb part of the body) during plastic surgeries carried out since January.

But hundreds more may have been affected due to Mexico's booming medical tourism industry, which sees around 1.2million Americans travel south for affordable care each year, and an even greater number of international patients.

The CDC and its equivalent in Mexico have asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the situation a health emergency, which could see the global agency deploy resources to track and isolate cases, quarantine contacts and screen passengers at the border.

Which one is him 108?

R111 🤪 good joke since all 3 have the same stretched skin over skull cheekbones look. He and Lynn Wyatt even have the same eyes.

Mr. Potato Head

Butt lifts are a risky procedure because it's a huge area that's operated on. It also has a not insignificant deathrate. Why would someone operate on you in general of you are close to a kidney failure? It's hard to believe this.

I have been to this doctor. He is hot, great body under the tight scrubs- his face is better in the picture than IRL. He think he is a god, does great work but no bedside manner. Can’t say I am really surprised.