Credentialing Chronicles
"Credentialing Chronicles" is the go-to podcast uncovering the hidden truths and scandals in healthcare credentialing, licensing, and compliance. Hosted by industry experts, we dive into real cases, juicy controversies, and insider knowledge that every persons needs to know! 🎙️🔥
Credentialing Chronicles
Pretty Hurts: Beauty Betrayal and Bloodlines
Malpractice. Disfigurement... A surgeon's dead wife. A state of emergency.
This week on Credentialing Chronicles, Shannen & Nyleen investigate the horrifying case of Dr. Ben Brown, a Florida plastic surgeon whose practice was declared an "immediate, serious danger to the public."
From a patient's post-surgical wound resembling a "ribeye laying on my stomach" to a "total collapse of judgment" that left his own 33-year-old wife dead after procedures in his clinic, this isn't just malpractice. It’s a terrifying, systemic failure of oversight, accountability, and basic medical ethics.
🔥 In this episode:
- What investigators found inside the "dirty, poorly maintained" and unregistered office.
- The chilling timeline of the surgeon's wife's death—from mixing her own anesthesia to the 20-minute delay in calling 911.
- How patients who explicitly declined procedures allegedly woke up with them anyway, leading to disfigurement and necrosis.
- Why "Hillary's Law," a bill filed to stop surgeons from operating on family in an office setting, died in subcommittee.
- The critical verification steps (ABPS, AAAASF, TJC) every patient and credentialing pro must use to spot the red flags.
🧾 With a surgeon still licensed to practice (under supervision) after being deemed an "immediate, serious danger," this isn’t just a headline—it’s a wake-up call.
If you work in credentialing, medical board oversight, risk management, or patient safety, this episode proves: you are the last line of defense.
🎧 Listen now — and don’t forget to share, tag your compliance crew, and make some noise.
An "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" on a practitioner's record.
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