Dr. Joe Bills Reynolds was sued for fatally botching an abortion on 21 year old Gaylene Golden on September 30, 1985. But he really started doing damage when he began performing plastic surgery and liposuction.
He performed breast implants, a hysterectomy, and numerous liposuction procedures on his wife. His 60-year-old anesthetist had originally been hired as a janitor, and an untrained orderly was acting as his nurse. His operating room was littered with dirty cups and papers. He tried to collect $500,000 on his wife’s life insurance after she bled to death after he opened a 25-inch incision in her abdomen, ostensibly for liposuction, on September 7, 1989. Reynolds would not allow paramedics to aid her until he had finished stapling the huge incision. He told his wife’s father that she was assisting in surgery and just “fell dead.”
He was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter and voluntarily surrendered his Oklahoma medical license. Reynolds allegedly had two suits filed over liposuction malpractice, including the near death of his housekeeper Betty Adams August 11, 1989, due to perforated intestines.
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