{"id":51714,"date":"2017-10-23T00:57:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T00:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=51714"},"modified":"2017-10-23T00:57:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T00:57:17","slug":"four-women-claim-butt-botching-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=51714","title":{"rendered":"Four more women claim to be \u2018butt-botching\u2019 victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four more women have come forward to claim they are victims of the alleged Butt Butcher of 34th Street.<\/p>\n<p>They all claimed they underwent nightmarish cosmetic surgeries at&nbsp;the hands of Manhattan doctor Ayman Shahine.<\/p>\n<p>One woman said she was rushed to the hospital during her operation when her airway began to close. Another says she waited in his office for three days, and another patient says he gave her a butt lift was so bad she landed on the television show \u201cBotched.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The women described long waits in Shahine\u2019s midtown office for butt lifts or liposuctions; a distracted doctor who left the operating table to take cell phone calls; and being told to wrap their bodies in yoga mats in order to reduce swelling.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Connie Zuniga, 29, said Shahine removed fat during her liposuction and pumped too much of it into her butt, leaving her misshapen. He then directed her to swaddle herself in a yoga mat with a book placed on each side of her rear end.<\/p>\n<p>Zuniga told her story on the E! network\u2019s \u201cBotched\u201d to flabbergasted California plastic surgeons Terry Dubrow and Paul Nassif.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the most preposterous story in regards to medical treatment and surgery that I ever heard of in my entire life,\u201d Nassif said.<\/p>\n<p>The Post revealed last week that Shahine, who is a gynecologist turned plastic surgeon, is under probe by a state disciplinary panel that has just made public 29 charges of misconduct against him.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged misconduct involves eight patients, including a 34-year-old woman whom Shahine performed liposuction on without first checking blood-test results that showed she was pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>Shahine has been named in 15 malpractices lawsuits since 2013.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51715\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bx205_02d1_9.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bx205_02d1_9.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bx205_02d1_9-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bx205_02d1_9-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shahine could lose his New York license if the state charges are substantiated.<\/p>\n<p>The Post found he is also licensed in four other states, including Georgia, where patient Donna Level said she had liposuction in July with the fat put into her breasts, leaving them uneven. She said Shahine\u2019s office has refused her repeated requests for copies of her medical records.<\/p>\n<p>Level and the other women who contacted The Post are not those mentioned in the New York state allegations and have not sued the doctor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Elizabeth Sanchez said after a 12-hour wait in Shahine\u2019s office for a liposuction, the doctor injected her with lidocaine, a numbing agent, in about 50 places and she felt as if her throat was closing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t breathe!\u201d she cried out. Shahine\u2019s response, she said, was \u201cOh, you\u2019re fine, honey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez said she passed out and was rushed to Bellevue Hospital. She said she complained to state authorities, but was recently told they had no record of it.<\/p>\n<p>A 45-year-old New Jersey woman claimed she came to Shahine in 2014 for a liposuction and a butt lift and waited more than three days at this office with other patients as the doctor operated throughout the night.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who did not want to be publicly identified because family members didn\u2019t know she had surgery, said she wanted to leave but had already paid $5,500 and was told she could not get a refund.<\/p>\n<p>She said she ultimately decided to go through with the procedure after seeing singer K. Michelle come to Shahine\u2019s office for a consultation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou figure that somebody famous is coming in, you\u2019re going to automatically assume that he\u2019s a great doctor,\u201d the patient said. \u201cI wish I would have done my research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She called her results \u201chorrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shahine\u2019s lawyer, Douglas Nadjari, called the doctor a \u201cgifted surgeon\u201d and said he operates at night \u201cas an accommodation to the working women that come to see him, his patients.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four more women have come forward to claim they are victims of the alleged Butt Butcher of 34th Street. They all claimed they underwent nightmarish cosmetic surgeries at&nbsp;the hands of Manhattan doctor Ayman Shahine. 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