Hi, everyone. Welcome to Fat Mascara. It's a podcast about beauty culture. I am Jen Sullivan,

your host. I have an amazing guest today. Before we get into who Dr. D is, I want to explain why we're doing this episode.

So if you listen to this podcast,

you're probably aware that there's often disturbing news items about the med spot industry.

For example, two weeks ago, here in New York City, the owner of JGL aesthetics was charged

with fraud smuggling and crimes related to handling of counterfeit drugs because he was purchasing

counterfeit Botox he was purchasing counterfeit

Botox, illegally injecting it into his clients, and of course, pretending that it was real.

I don't know if you remember this one from our podcast in November, a woman pretending to be a nurse in

Massachusetts injected people with fake Botox there.

And just last week in Philadelphia, I heard about a woman who ended up in the

ER. She's been to the hospital multiple times with multiple infections after a nurse who was

illegally running a med spa injected her with an unknown filler. I imagine every time you see one

of these headlines, you think to yourself, how does this happen? So our guest today, Dr. D,

she's going to help us

understand that. Dr. Kate D runs the Glow Medi Spa in Seattle, Washington. She's board certified

in diagnostic radiology, and she worked as breast cancer specialist for many years before

training in and transitioning to aesthetic medicine. She's also the host of her own podcast,

Med Spa Mayhem, and the author of the book

Med Spa Mayhem, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Secrets of the Aesthetic Industry. So she's

making it her mission to explain to people how med spas often operate outside the law and what you

should know before you visit any of them. As you'll hear, she's also trying to work with

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