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What does it actually take for the nursing board to show up at your med spa with a hidden camera and a badge?

Dr. Kate Dee sits down with Shonra Weiss, a nurse practitioner, med spa co-owner, and consultant who reviews cases for the California nursing board. Shonra has seen what these investigations look like from the inside: the complaints, the undercover visits, the social media evidence, the patient records, and the mistakes that can put a license at risk.

This episode reveals how nursing board investigations actually start, what triggers them, what investigators look for, and why doing the right thing for your patient may not be enough if the rest of your practice does not hold up.

You’ll hear about providers practicing on suspended licenses, nurses treating patients without proper good faith exams, standing orders being misunderstood, and medical directors who are too remote to manage the complications happening under their license.

Shonra also shares the cases that are harder to forget: patients dismissed when they reported serious symptoms, one case involving permanent injury, and another involving scarring that may never fully heal.

Chapters:
00:02:30 - How Med Spa Complaints Start
00:03:23 - Are Investigators Watching Instagram?
00:04:54 - When RNs Treat Without Orders
00:06:05 - Standing Orders Are Not Blanket Permission
00:10:00 - Remote Medical Directors Put Patients at Risk
00:14:17 - What a Real Patient Evaluation Requires
00:19:36 - When Complications Get Ignored
00:21:46 - The Filler Risks Patients Never Hear
00:23:21 - Informed Consent Is Not a Form
00:26:20 - What Safer Filler Aftercare Looks Like
00:30:13 - Why Bigger Violations are Missed
00:32:49 - What Real Medical Oversight Looks Like
00:37:24 - How Complications Happen
00:40:20 - Raising the Standard for Med Spas

But here’s the part that matters most: some of these providers thought they were doing everything right.

If you work in a med spa, own one, or book aesthetic treatments, you need to understand what is happening behind the scenes right now.

Press play and learn what the nursing board already knows, and what it could mean for the med spa you're trusting with your face.

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider before any aesthetic procedure.

Med Spa Confidential with Dr. Kate Dee exposes illegal practices, compliance failures, and patient safety risks inside the medical aesthetics industry. Consumers learn how to find licensed injectors, avoid counterfeit products, and make safer treatment decisions. Med spa owners and providers get real accountability, industry standards, and a pa...

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If something goes wrong on the operating table, do you know who's actually responsible?

Dr. Kate Dee sits down with Dr. Alexander Zuriarrain, a Miami-based plastic surgeon with four board certifications and years of experience as a medical-legal expert witness.

He has reviewed the cases where cosmetic procedures went very, very wrong. And he is here to explain what patients rarely see before they book.

You’ll learn why “awake facelifts” are one of the most marketed and misunderstood procedures in cosmetic surgery right now, and why sedation, local anesthesia, and poor patient selection can create serious risks. Dr. Zuriarrain breaks down what separates a bad outcome from real malpractice, and why many patients don’t understand the difference until they are dealing with a result they never expected.

He also shares the red flags patients almost never think to check, including one resource hiding in plain sight that can reveal how a clinic actually operates behind the scenes.

Chapters:
00:01:30 - Does Florida Have a Hidden Surgery Problem?
00:03:25 - Plastic Surgeon vs Cosmetic Surgeon
00:06:53 - Who Should Touch Your Face
00:10:25 - The Awake Facelift Risk
00:13:02 - When Local Anesthesia Turns Dangerous
00:16:00 - Why Bad Surgeries End Up In Court
00:17:23 - The Procedure Patients Think They Need
00:18:54 - When Complications Become Devastating
00:22:40 - Bad Outcome or Malpractice
00:30:56 - Social Media Changed Plastic Surgery
00:35:15 - The Medical Director Red Flag
00:36:39 - How To Vet A Surgery Clinic
00:44:23 - Don’t Make This Decision Alone

If you’re considering any cosmetic procedure, or you just want to understand how these clinics really work behind the scenes, this episode will change how you research any practice going forward.

Stay until the end as Dr. Zuriarrain shares one detail about deceased medical directors that most patients would never think to check.

Press play and learn exactly what to ask before you let anyone touch your face.

Connect with Dr. Z: https://www.zuriplasticsurgery.com/

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Learn about The MedSpa Board — the national registry that verifies legally compliant, doctor-led med spas.

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GLOW Medspa - Seattle, WA: https://glowspaseattle.com/

Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider before any aesthetic procedure.

Med Spa Confidential with Dr. Kate Dee exposes illegal practices, compliance failures, and patient safety risks inside the medical aesthetics industry. Consumers learn how to find licensed injectors, avoid counterfeit products, and make safer treatment decisions. Med spa owners and providers get real accountability, industry standards, and a pa...

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Would you take a weight loss drug that outperforms bariatric surgery if your doctor told you it wasn't legal yet?

There's a new drug making waves in weight loss medicine. The clinical trial results are unlike anything we've seen before. And some clinics are already injecting it into patients, even though it's not legal to do so.

It's called Retatrutide.

And Dr. Kate Dee wants you to know exactly what it is before someone tries to sell it to you. She breaks down how this triple-receptor drug works, why the weight loss numbers out of phase three trials are turning heads, and what the side effects actually look like when you read the data carefully.

Dr. Dee also explains the legal landscape in plain terms because right now, there is no legal pathway to get this drug outside of a clinical trial. Not through a compounding pharmacy, not through a wellness clinic, not anywhere.

She's here to make sure you're not the person who finds that out the hard way.

If you're already on a GLP-1 medication and wondering what's next, this episode gives you a clear framework for thinking through that question. If you've seen retatrutide mentioned online and you're curious, this is the episode that separates the science from the hype.

Press play as Dr. Dee shares her own personal take and it might surprise you.

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider before any aesthetic procedure.

Med Spa Confidential with Dr. Kate Dee exposes illegal practices, compliance failures, and patient safety risks inside the medical aesthetics industry. Consumers learn how to find licensed injectors, avoid counterfeit products, and make safer treatment decisions. Med spa owners and providers get real accountability, industry standards, and a pa...

What if the skin-tightening device your med spa is pushing on you has zero human safety data?

Not outdated data. Not limited data. Zero.

That's the reality behind one of the most hyped devices in aesthetics right now, and Dr. Kate Dee isn't staying quiet about it.

Dr. Kate Dee sits down with Dr. Corrine Erickson, a board-certified dermatologist and owner of Georgia Skin Specialists in Atlanta, to cut through the noise on non-invasive skin tightening. These treatments are everywhere right now, and so is the misinformation.

They name the devices that had good ideas but poor execution, including some that are still being sold today. Then they break down what the newer generation of RF technology actually does, how it works, and why the science behind it matters more than the marketing.

Dr. Erickson chose her device based on published clinical data, head-to-head studies, and real-world outcomes. Not Instagram hype. Actual evidence. Meanwhile, Dr. Dee raises serious questions about one device flying off shelves right now whose only published safety study was done on two-to-three-month-old pigs.

That device is being sold in med spas across the country right now. Maybe even yours.

Chapters:
00:03:02 - The Real Problem With Older RF Devices
00:04:18 - The New Generation of Skin Tightening Machines
00:07:12 - Is Korean Technology Leading This Space?
00:08:35 - The Mistake That Causes Facial Fat Loss
00:12:22 - What Skin Tightening Actually Feels Like Now
00:15:18 - How Long Results Really Take to Show Up
00:18:33 - The Temporary Tightening Effect Patients Mistake for Results
00:20:48 - The Red Flags Around Zerf and Deeper RF Claims
00:24:52 - SofWave is Still Raising Concerns
00:27:05 - The One Treatment You Should Use Before Events
00:29:22 - The Skin Tightening Add-On Patients Don’t Expect
00:30:12 - The New Treatment for “Sleevage”
00:33:18 - Non-Surgical Body Tightening Limits
00:35:05 - The Device You Should Avoid
00:36:02 - The Biggest Red Flag in Aesthetic Marketing
00:37:02 - Why Consumers Need to Verify Licenses and Oversight
00:39:32 - Why RF Microneedling Devices Keep Causing Injuries

If you've ever considered a skin-tightening treatment, or you've already had one and wondered whether it was the right call, this episode gives you the questions you should have been asking before you walked in the door.

Press play and learn exactly what to ask before you book any skin-tightening treatment you've seen all over social media.

Connect with Dr. Connie Erickson: https://georgiaskinspecialists.com/providers/corinne-erickson/

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider before any aesthetic procedure.

Med Spa Confidential with Dr. Kate Dee exposes illegal practices, compliance failures, and patient safety risks inside the medical aesthetics industry. Consumers learn how to find licensed injectors, avoid counterfeit products, and make safer treatment decisions. Med spa owners and providers get real accountability, industry standards, and a pa...

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What if the "FDA-approved" weight loss shot you just got… wasn't?

The headlines reduced this story to a clinic shutdown and a few thousand dollars in penalties. But Dr. Kate Dee exposes what may have actually happened behind the scenes: roughly 100 patients allegedly injected with research-grade peptides never intended for human use.

This could be happening right now in your state, possibly at a clinic down the street, and most patients would never know until something goes wrong.

Dr. Kate Dee breaks down the real Alabama case that should have made national headlines. According to the complaint, a med spa allegedly injected patients with substances labeled “not suitable for direct human consumption” while patients believed they were receiving FDA approved GLP-1 medications.

She explains how a gray-market peptide supplier, questionable oversight, and loopholes inside the med spa industry created the perfect storm for patient harm and why the consequences handed down barely reflect how serious this case really was.

Press play before ordering your next weight loss shot.

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Learn about The MedSpa Board — the national registry that verifies legally compliant, doctor-led med spas.

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GLOW Medspa - Seattle, WA: https://glowspaseattle.com/

Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider before any aesthetic procedure.

Med Spa Confidential with Dr. Kate Dee exposes illegal practices, compliance failures, and patient safety risks inside the medical aesthetics industry. Consumers learn how to find licensed injectors, avoid counterfeit products, and make safer treatment decisions. Med spa owners and providers get real accountability, industry standards, and a pa...

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What if the facelift you're planning could leave you looking worse than before you started?

Facelifts are more popular than ever, but not all of them are created equal. The deep plane technique is being marketed heavily right now and it sounds impressive on paper. Book the wrong surgeon and you could end up with a pulled, windswept result that requires another surgery to fix.

Dr. Kate Dee sits down with Beverly Hills facial plastic surgeon Dr. William Harris to talk about what's actually happening in operating rooms right now. Dr. Harris specializes in extended deep plane facelifts and he's also the surgeon people call when someone else's work goes wrong.

Chapters:
00:02:09 - Why Facelifts Look Pulled
00:04:29 - Does Dr. Harris Avoids Threads
00:06:02 - New Treatments Younger Patients Want
00:08:18 - Why 28-Year-Olds Get Neck Lifts
00:10:00 - Kybella Fails
00:15:09 - The Most Common Facelift Mistakes
00:18:00 - Why Plastic Surgeons Close Skin Differently
00:21:07 - How to Choose the Right Surgeon
00:25:07 - Hair Transplant Horror Story
00:27:27 - The Reality of Medical Tourism
00:29:39 - The Biggest Red Flag in Aesthetics
00:30:24 - Why Good Surgeons Say No

They cover the exact questions you need to ask before you sit in a consultation chair, why the words "cosmetic surgeon" on a door sign should make you stop and think, and what actually separates a result that ages beautifully from one that falls apart in three years.

Press play and learn what your surgeon might not be telling you.

Connect with Dr. Harris: https://www.harrisfacialplastics.com/

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Learn about The MedSpa Board — the national registry that verifies legally compliant, doctor-led med spas.

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Please leave us a review on Apple Podcast: HERE

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GLOW Medspa - Seattle, WA: https://glowspaseattle.com/

Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider before any aesthetic procedure.

Med Spa Confidential with Dr. Kate Dee exposes illegal practices, compliance failures, and patient safety risks inside the medical aesthetics industry. Consumers learn how to find licensed injectors, avoid counterfeit products, and make safer treatment decisions. Med spa owners and providers get real accountability, industry standards, and a pa...

What if the person who gave you your last IV drip had zero medical training?

It happened and Jennifer Cleveland never made it home.

This week, the story that shook the entire med spa industry just got a major update and it's one you cannot afford to ignore.

Dr. Kate Dee and med spa attorney Courtney Walker are exposing the dirty secret hiding inside thousands of "medical" spas right now. Unlicensed operators running the show. Doctors are renting out their licenses with ZERO oversight and people are dying.

This isn't rare.

You'll find out exactly what was in that IV, who administered it, and where the supervising doctor actually was when Jennifer died. You'll never walk into a wellness center the same way again.

Press play and learn how the law is finally catching up and you need to hear this before your next appointment.

Grab Your Copy of Medspa Mayhem the Book Today: HERE

Learn about The MedSpa Board — the national registry that verifies legally compliant, doctor-led med spas.

Find a certified provider near you → MedspaBoard.com

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GLOW Medspa - Seattle, WA: https://glowspaseattle.com/

Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider before any aesthetic procedure.

Med Spa Confidential with Dr. Kate Dee exposes illegal practices, compliance failures, and patient safety risks inside the medical aesthetics industry. Consumers learn how to find licensed injectors, avoid counterfeit products, and make safer treatment decisions. Med spa owners and providers get real accountability, industry standards, and a pa...