On January 9, 2025, our client went to a Beaumont physician for a cosmetic chemical peel — a common procedure she expected to be safe and routine.
According to the demand letter, the physician applied a 40% chemical peel and left it on for more than four minutes, resulting in severe facial burns. The demand letter alleges that before doing so, he never obtained her informed consent, never had her sign any disclosure forms, and never conducted a proper consultation about her individual skin type and the risks of the procedure — and that her medical file contains none of those documents.
Since the procedure, our client has suffered permanent scarring, discoloration, and disfigurement, and she has been forced to seek evaluation and treatment from other physicians. According to the demand letter, the injuries are permanent and have caused her physical, emotional, and psychological harm.
Before performing a procedure that can burn and permanently scar a patient’s face, a physician has a duty to explain the risks, to account for the individual patient’s skin and circumstances, and to obtain the patient’s informed, written consent. According to the demand letter, the medical records contain no informed-consent forms, no signed disclosures, and no consultation notes addressing the risks — and the physician’s own notes suggest he relied on the fact that a friend of the patient had previously had a peel, on the theory that she therefore “knows what to expect.”
A friend’s experience is not a substitute for a doctor’s duty to warn his own patient. We are pursuing the complete medical records, the consent and disclosure documentation (or the absence of it), the treatment notes, and the standard of care for this procedure, and have sent the physician a formal demand. These allegations are set out in our demand letter and will be established through the claims process and, if necessary, in litigation.
We represent our client and have sent a formal demand to the physician arising out of the chemical-peel injury and the alleged failure to obtain informed consent. Our claims sound in medical negligence — the failure to warn and obtain consent, and the failure to safely perform the procedure — and seek recovery for her disfigurement, her past and future physical pain, her medical expenses, and her past and future mental anguish. If the matter is not resolved, we are prepared to pursue it in litigation under Texas law.
A patient who walks in for a cosmetic procedure should never be left with permanent facial scarring because she was never told the risks or asked to consent. We intend to hold this physician and his practice fully accountable for the harm our client suffered.
We represent our client and have sent a formal demand to the physician arising out of the chemical-peel injury and the alleged failure to obtain informed consent. Our claims sound in medical negligence — the failure to warn and obtain consent, and the failure to safely perform the procedure — and seek recovery for her disfigurement, her past and future physical pain, her medical expenses, and her past and future mental anguish. If the matter is not resolved, we are prepared to pursue it in litigation under Texas law.
A patient who walks in for a cosmetic procedure should never be left with permanent facial scarring because she was never told the risks or asked to consent. We intend to hold this physician and his practice fully accountable for the harm our client suffered.
