This action by the medical board happens over three weeks as soon as the State Health Division told Dr. Su to stop carrying out surgical procedures in his clinic after the division discovered him purportedly running a center that is unlicensed and unsafe and utilising expired medicines.

gives rise to serious and substantial concerns regarding Dr. Su’s competence and ability to safely serve patients in Nevada.

The action occurs two days following the publishing of a story by Sun inquiring why the medical board was so slow on acting on the case of Dr. Su given the actions of the Health Division against him.

The suspension order of the board reported that Dr. Su carried out on April 16 an 8-hour breast enhancement surgical procedure in the Skin & Body Institute clinic. The patient won the surgical procedure via the health club where she was enrolled. Only local anesthesia was used by Dr. Su; the anesthesia’s effectiveness faded, which caused pain to the patient.

Dr. Su was not able to allow for a space that is large enough for the breast implant. On June 3, the patient went to Dr. Su’s clinic and showed to him that her right breast implant was bulging out through the initial surgical incision. Dr. Su carried out a corrective surgery under local anesthetic, wherein he reinserted the breast implant. The medical board mentioned that this implant was still large for the pocket he had made.

The patient then was admitted on June 15 to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center with a right breast infection. The doctors who took out the implant remarked that Dr. Su’s surgical incisions (which are almost 10 cm each) were longer by around five times than they have to be. The order stated that the surgical incision was “jagged and uneven” on the patient’s right breast, and when she went for a surgical procedure, the breast implant bulged out from the cut created by Dr. Su.

The order also stated that the lack of cooperation by Dr. Su with the investigation of the medical board elicits “substantial concerns regarding (his) trustworthiness” and the fear that medical records will be changed or destroyed.

Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie (D-Reno) remarked that the medical board was too slow to suspend the license of Dr. Su. She said,

Reading the health division’s report, it’s clear that patients have been at risk these past three weeks, and I find that very disturbing.

The executive director of the board, Louis Ling, stated that the medical board dealt the case of Dr. Su as swiftly as it could. He added that when new policies become effective in October, responding will be a lot faster.