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   COLUMBUS, Ohio – Dr. Katharine Roxanne Grawe, a plastic surgeon accused of   
   injuring patients while livestreaming some procedures on the social media   
   app Tik Tok, will never again work as a doctor in Ohio.   
      
   The State Medical Board of Ohio on Wednesday voted to permanently revoke   
   the medical license of Grawe, who also goes by "Dr. Roxy." The board said   
   Grawe, whose license has been suspended since Nov. 18, neglected her   
   patients as she livestreamed parts of their procedures, spoke into a   
   camera, and answered viewer questions – all while the surgeries were   
   taking place.   
      
   The Ohio medical board reached a decision Wednesday.   
      
   "This case isn't about some antiquated view of social media ... These   
   patients trusted Dr. Roxy because of what they saw on social media. She   
   made major surgeries with potentially life-altering complications seem   
   like one big party," an attorney representing the state's case against the   
   doctor said while asking the board to revoke Grawe's license.   
      
   Grawe addressed the board before the vote, pleading for members to have an   
   open mind when considering the accusations against her.   
      
   Grawe claimed that the discipline she's already faced was far more severe   
   than she ever thought was possible. She also complained about the impact   
   the accusations against her had on her life outside of the office as she   
   said her kids have been attacked in school and her husband left her.   
      
   Grawe said she used social media in an attempt to break down the "stiff   
   and scary wall between patients and practitioners." She now understands,   
   she said, that she fell short of the medical board's ideals.   
      
   "As I stand here today, I see how many of those silly videos seemed   
   unprofessional," Grawe told the board. "I understand how my actions at   
   times seemed careless and offended my patients and colleagues."   
      
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   'Put patients in danger for the social media world'   
   Jonathan B. Feibel, vice president of the medical board, called out Grawe   
   for what he described as "recklessness" and disregard for the board's   
   rules.   
      
   Before Grawe's license was suspended, the secretary of the medical board   
   cautioned the doctor at least twice in the previous four years about the   
   need to maintain patient privacy when sharing photos or video on social   
   media, according to the suspension notice filed online.   
      
   In September 2021, Grawe was urged by the secretary of the board to   
   undertake remedial education courses related to plastic surgery   
   complications, professionalism and ethics. She was asked to provide   
   certificates of completion of the courses, along with summaries about what   
   she learned and how she would apply it to her future practice.   
      
   After completing the remedial education courses, the board alleged Grawe   
   continued to film and live broadcast medical procedures of some patients   
   until on or about Oct. 14.   
      
   Despite the warnings, Feibel said Grawe dismissed complaints as coming   
   from disgruntled former patients.   
      
   "It's not appropriate to put patients in danger for the social media   
   world. Dr. Grawe's social media persona was more important to her than the   
   lives of the patients she treated," Feibel said.   
      
   Grawe's medical license was originally suspended on Nov. 18 after "clear   
   and convincing" evidence arose that her continued practice presented "a   
   danger of immediate and serious harm to the public."   
      
   Procedure livestreamed on social media   
   The board cited three patients who reported having complications after   
   Grawe performed surgery on them at her practice, Roxy Plastic Surgery.   
      
   In one case, a patient was sent to the emergency room by a nurse   
   practitioner at Roxy Plastic Surgery less than a week after receiving   
   liposuction, a Brazilian butt lift, and a skin-tightening procedure from   
   Grawe. Free air was found in her abdomen and medical staff determined she   
   was suffering from hepatic encephalopathy, or loss of brain function when   
   a damaged liver doesn't remove toxins from the blood.   
      
   The patient was quickly transferred to another hospital for further   
   evaluation and treatment. There, she underwent exploratory surgery and   
   surgeons found her bowel had been perforated and she had a serious   
   bacterial infection.   
      
   The patient required a prolonged stay with multiple debridements, or   
   procedures to remove dead tissue, open abdomen, and skin grafting,   
   according to Grawe's notice of suspension.   
      
   At least part of her procedure at Grawe's office was livestreamed on   
   social media, during which Grawe was looking and speaking to the camera   
   while performing liposuction on the patient's abdomen, according to the   
   board.   
      
   At least one patient suffered severe damage and infection to her abdomen   
   and she will likely suffer complications for the rest of her life, said   
   both Feibel and Dr. Yeshwant P. Reddy, another member of the medical   
   board. Such an outcome and disregard means Grawe shouldn't be allowed to   
   practice medicine again, the doctors said.   
      
   "Can she go back and practice, correcting herself? Reddy said. "No, I   
   don't think so."   
      
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   Mary Jenkins, a former patient of Grawe, was in attendance at the medical   
   board's meeting Wednesday. Although Jenkins wasn't one of the three   
   patients who filed the latest complaints against the doctor, she won a   
   lawsuit in 2016 against Grawe for a botched breast reconstruction surgery.   
      
   Jenkins, a North Side resident, founded Christians Overcoming Cancer in   
   2006 after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Surgeons removed Jenkins'   
   right breast in 2006, but she put off having reconstructive surgery until   
   meeting Grawe in 2012.   
      
   Grawe performed a procedure at Mount Carmel St. Ann's in which a flap from   
   Jenkins' abdomen was removed and used to construct a right breast. The   
   flap, however, died after becoming congested with blood and was removed   
   two days later by Grawe.   
      
   Jenkins was left with "a gaping hole in her chest that required extensive   
   wound therapy," according to a pretrial statement filed by her attorney,   
   David Shroyer. She spent four months in a nursing facility while the wound   
   healed.   
      
   Jenkins' lawsuit stated Grawe's attempts to address the complications,   
   which included leech therapy rather than surgery, "were professionally   
   negligent and fell well below accepted standards of medical care." A jury   
   awarded Jenkins $358,000 for the botched procedure.   
      
   Jenkins cried after the medical board stripped Grawe of her license   
   Wednesday. She said the board's action was long overdue and wished   
      
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