A couple who authorities say performed liposuction in the basement of a home has been charged with practicing medicine without a license after the female patient died.

Luiz Carlos Ribeiro, 49, a native of Brazil, and his wife, Ana Maria Miranda Ribeiro, also 49, were arraigned in district court on Monday following the death of a 24-year-old woman Sunday.

The district attorney’s office said authorities believe that Ribeiro and his wife administered illegally obtained drugs and performed the surgical procedure on the woman. Neither Ribeiro nor his wife are licensed to practice medicine in Massachusetts.

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  1. jason says:

    That sucks…..

    YES first reference!

  2. Gig says:

    I’m curious how everyone is going to blame the Bush administration for this one.

  3. jason says:

    Sorry… it really is terrible… just could not resist.

  4. Smartalix says:

    It sucks and blows.

  5. Improbus says:

    Taking meth would have been safer.

  6. Greg Mc says:

    Obviously this is only an issue because the Right-wing-neo-con-Christian-fundamentalist-legislative-wackos didn’t let Billery get universal healthcare implemented.

  7. OhForTheLoveOf says:

    #2 — Gig

    Gee, I dunno Gig, maybe it’s Bush’s fault because he doesn’t support universal health care… maybe its his fault because the victim got fat while worrying about a loved one in that unjust Iraqi war… Maybe Bush is just the anti-Christ…

    Or maybe extremists on the left are just like extremists on the right… knee-jerk jack-asses with nothing valuable to offer…

  8. god says:

    Looks more like the ultimate in Libertarian capitalism at work: no licensing, no regulations, no state oversight, complete freedom in the workplace.

  9. spsffan says:

    #2- Gig

    Simple. Like Hoover and the Great Depression or JFK and the Bay of Pigs, it happened on his watch.

  10. Mike says:

    #8, a completely laissez-faire economic system relies on people to not be idiots. And when that proves to be not the case, that is where the concept of the “nanny state” comes into being.

  11. Eideard says:

    “laissez-faire” sounds more like the “tooth-faire” — if you’re relying on people not being idilots.

  12. Joao says:

    Isn’t this about liposuction?.??.!

  13. Calin says:

    In a thread about vacuuming out fat……someone references Hoover and the Great Depression. Tell ya what, I’d have to be in a Great Depression to let some yahoo Hoover out my fat gut.

  14. Esteban says:

    Darwin Award!

  15. Angel H. Wong says:

    I bet you guys that someone will sue the manufacturers of the vacuum.

  16. Mr. H. Fusion says:

    #7, Most Universal Health Care does not include purely cosmetic surgery or treatments. Only if the surgery can be justified by a physical need or psychological reasons, such as extreme burn scars, congenital deformities, hideous birthmarks, and the like. Treatments like liposuction are almost always vanity and would not be covered.

    Having said that, what idiot would let another idiot do surgery on them? This isn’t a right wing / left wing debate. Its a stupid debate and you just can’t fix stupid.

  17. OhForTheLoveOf says:

    #16 – Fusion

    I know that… It was just a smarmy answer to #2 🙂

  18. Marco D Beest says:

    Ya think going into the basement of someone’s home might be your FIRST CLUE!?!?

    /Obviously didn’t see the movie “Brazil”

  19. joshua says:

    While this sucks(pun intended)….this isn’t the first case. This is about the third or fourth that I’ve read about and all have been Hispanics. This proves that not all Hispanics come here for the free Medical care.

  20. João PT says:

    Brazilians are NOT hispanics…

  21. Mr. H. Fusion says:

    21, is that a good or bad thing?

  22. João PT says:

    Not good but, not THAT bad…

    Just like calling Canadians Americans. (not quite, Hispanics are descendants of Spanish people. Brazillians are of Portuguese descent, while Canadians and Americans are from English provenience, as of colonizing powers of long ago.)
    Just my two bit of social geogaphy. Not to be considered as of thread relevance…

  23. joshua says:

    Ok Joao(sorry, can’t do the squiggly thing), 1 stupid PORTUGESE bunch and several Hispanics.

  24. Anon says:

    Hans and Frans wanted for questioning.

  25. JoaoPT says:

    #24 –
    It’s a tilde and what it does is to put a nasal accent on a pair of vowels spelled together. And you’re welcome.


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