LOUISVILLE, Ky. – We live in a time when you can get liposuction during your lunch hour and go to parties for botox injections.  Cosmetics surgery is so commonplace we may spend more time shopping for a car than looking into the credentials of our surgeons.

Everyone wants everyone for nothing and nothing less than perfection please.

But that quest for perfection highlighted in the headlines can sometimes have devastating results. 

It did for Donda West, the mother of hip-hop star Kanye West.  She died after surgery performed by Dr. Jan Adams, a non-board certified surgeon. 

One woman's abdomen will never be normal again because the doctor who operated on her was not able to perform the type of surgery he told her he could, a tummy tuck.  Her attorney, Hans Poppe, says that her settlement requires that she not speak publicly about her injuries.  But she will never fully recover.

From terrible tummy tucks to lousy liposuction, Dr. Jerry O’Daniel now devotes 25 percent of his practice to reversing and reshaping cosmetic surgery mistakes.

O’Daniel would prefer patients not need his services to repair mistakes and he says you can avoid them.  Everyone should insist on using a board-certified surgeon in the practice. They should ask to see pictures, talk to other patients and be aware that the length of the time you are under sedation increases your risks. Also, remember that when it comes to something as serious as surgery, it’s not a good idea to cut corners.

If you want to check out your doctor, Poppe says you have to go down to the Jefferson County courthouse and check out county by county, because doctors may move around. Information about the complaint against Dr. Jan Adams was found on the Medical Board of California’s website.