Florida plastic surgeon's bad injections caused a Brazilian butt lift death, state says

[Zorro]

State complaints, discipline and Brazilian butt lift injury or death present nothing new for New Life Plastic Surgery.

Another doctor associated with a West Miami-Dade plastic surgery office surgery center has been accused by the Florida Department of Health of causing a Brazilian butt lift patient’s death.

Dr. Fermin Morales, who is now at New Life Plastic Surgery, has an administrative complaint filed against him over a 2023 BBL death at Venus Cosmetics Institute. Dr. Morales, board certified by the American Board of Surgery since 2009, has a previously clean discipline record on the license he’s held since 2011.

State complaints, discipline and Brazilian butt lift injury or death present nothing new for New Life Plastic Surgery, 8400 SW Eighth St., which lists Morales among its surgeons.

He couldn’t be reached for comment by phone on Thursday. New Life Plastic Surgery said the doctor was in, put a Miami Herald reporter on hold for several minutes, then hung up.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2025/02/10/brazilian-butt-lift-death-miami-florida/

Now that's a headline you don't see every day. I never suspected Brazilian butt lifts were a thing.

[GreenWave]

1. Plastic butt wanters should know:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/21/2021992/-Human-Origins-Feet-legs-buttocks

Buttocks

One of the unusual features of human anatomy is the rounded, muscular buttocks. While this feature is considered sexually attractive in many cultures and may have been evolutionarily enhanced by sexual selection, anatomically human buttocks are a result of bipedalism. The large muscle—the gluteus maximus, the largest muscle in the human body—is needed to support and balance the weight which is carried above the pelvis because of bipedalism. In his book Evolving: The Human Effect and Why it Matters, Daniel Fairbanks explains:

“The most highly derived are the gluteal muscles, which give humans our distinctively rounded buttocks. The enlargement and positioning of these muscles during the evolutionary transition to upright posture assisted our ancestors in maintaining themselves upright while walking and running.”

The large muscles allow humans to have a distinctive walk: humans can walk and run upright continually facing forward. While the great apes do walk upright occasionally, their gait is very different from the human walk. Daniel Fairbanks writes:

“A chimpanzee, gorilla, or orangutan typically twists side-to-side when walking on two legs in part because its gluteal muscles lack the size, strength, and positioning to fully stabilize it while walking.”

In other words, the large muscles—the rounded buttocks—make the more efficient human walk possible.

So get walking!