Reinalde Silvestre Essay

Reinalde Silvestre was forced to go into the army as a doctor, and he staged as a plastic surgeon in Miami Beach, Florida. When he first came to the United States he started to treat his patients in his home. He later then opened Ocean Health Center as a surgical office.

June 1998 Jeannette Bernai a Cuban – born women came across the causeway to get breast implants to Miami Beach headed to Ocean Health Center. Bernai paid Reinalde $4,500 up front and made the surgery for June 8th, 1998. When Jeannette brought her cousin with her the day of the surgery. While Jeannette was back getting her surgery her cousin felt uneasy in the small waiting room and heard screams and moans coming from the operating room. Jeannette lay wide open on the table, she only received animal tranquilizer Ketamine, makes you go into a trancelike effect. On July 5th, Bernai went back to Ocean Health to get her stitches removed. Reinalde noticed that her breast seemed lopsided, the left was bigger than the right. The next couple of months went downhill with even more problems. With more operations her skin began to decay around the infected area. Reinalde would now snip away the punky skin with a pair of surgical scissors daily. Jeannette went back on
Baez worked as a musician but body building was his dream. Reinalde made himself sound like real surgeon. Reinalde went back to the restaurant where Baez mentioned that he wanted to take care of some small indentations in his chest. Reinalde said that the pectoral implants wouldn’t be a problem. Baez wouldn’t be able to work for a week and the gym lifting weights for about a month. Reinalde told Baez that it was only $2,000 and it covered his expenses and the fee for the anesthesiologist. Reinalde was in a moment of overconfidence and asked Pimienta and her boyfriend to make a document of the surgery so he could show other surgeons his