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| Paula Rojeski |
Credibility has been rapidly shrinking for the executives behind the 1-800-GET-THIN campaign (you know the one), and now, a new lawsuit alleges that the business they're running is a "huge, lucrative and criminal enterprise."
In the lawsuit, posted
here by the
Los Angeles Times, a former employee of surgery centers affiliated with the ad campaign claims that details have been covered up in case of
Paula Rojeski, a 55-year-old Ladera Ranch woman who died following her Lap-Band surgery on Sept. 8, 2011.
Rojeski underwent the weight-loss procedure at Valley Surgical Center in West Hills.
Dyanne Deuel, a former surgical tech supervisor, alleges that during Rojeski's surgery, the anesthesiologist made a number of mistakes--not turning on the valve to the oxygen tank at the right time, ignoring a blood pressure reading of 70, and modifying the IV in Rojeski's arm, causing it to come loose and drain its fluids onto the ground.
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