DOCTOR'S NEGLIGENT SKIN CARE TREATMENT LEFT HER RED-FACED

From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Queens Injury lawyer)

Jennifer Esposito, age 39, has brought a medical malpractice lawsuit against her plastic surgeon, David Anthony Colbert, M.D., and his medical practice, the New York Dermatology Group. Her attorney claims that a laser treatment meant to "even out" her skin tone left the pretty blonde with red stripes on her face.

According to Esposito's lawyer, before the botched surgery she was quite the socialite, with a large wedding reported in The New York Times, her own interior design business, and a husband with a high-powered job at Goldman Sachs.

The lawsuit claims that because of her facial burns - strange, splotchy, striped patterns on both sides of her face - Esposito can't participate in social events critical to her business and to her husband's success.

Her lawyer claims that patients are briefly seen by a dermatologist, then without the patient's permission passed off to a non-physician esthetician who performs the procedure. Her attorney also claims that Esposito suffered a "permanent loss of pigment to her face as a result of the destruction of pigment-producing cells, and can never again expose her face to the sun."

Naturally, a spokesperson for the doctor denied wrongdoing.