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Are Beauty Standards Pushing Black Women Into Dangerous Back-Alley Surgeries?

Adam J. Rubinstein, MD, FACS When news broke last month that a fake doctor had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing a woman with toxic butt injections, a lot of attention was given to what is known as “back-alley surgeries” or “black market augmentations.” What wasn’t talked about? The reason many of the people who suffer the often-deadly consequences of these procedures are black women. Click to read full story