A surgeon is publicizing his patient’s harrowing story of workplace violence in hopes that it will elicit a contribution of supplies from implant manufacturers to offset the cost of reconstructive surgery.
A story published on LATimes.com says Lydia Carranza’s breast implant deflated when she was shot in the chest last year, in an incident that claimed the life of her co-worker and left her with disfiguring scars. When a man opened fire in her office, Lydia was shot twice: “The bullet fragments were millimeters from her heart and her vital organs,” said Dr. Ashkan Ghavami to the LA Times.
According to a firearms expert, the deciding factor between life and death for Lydia may have been the presence of her saline breast implant. Of course, “don’t go getting breast enhancements as a means to deflect a possible incoming bullet,” he adds.
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