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NZPA-Reuter New York A woman, aged 48, has filed a 81.5 M malpractice suit against a plastic surgeon who rhe says left her with an off-centre navel. An attorney for Virginia O’Hare told a State Supreme Court jury yesterday that the New York woman’s navel was two inches off centre after plastic surgery by Dr Howard Bellin.
According to the attorney, Mr Theodore Friedman, Dr Beilin had promised to give Mrs O’Hare “a nice, flat belly” by means of an operation known as abdominal plasty. But after the surgery, he said, “her umbilicus was off-centre. The belly-button, no longer normal, was a large, deformed hole in her stomach. and the scar was of. significant thickness. “The experience caused
her emotional shock and anguish ... and she came apart at the seams,” Mr Friedman told the court. Dr Beilin, a well known plastic surgeon, later told reporters: “The bellybutton was off ever so slightly, but well within the limits,"well within the midline.” Mr Friedman said Mrs O’Hare has had her navel re-centred by another surgeon.
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Press, 21 April 1979, Page 6
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177Not right on button Press, 21 April 1979, Page 6
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