072519 504
The Iowa Board of Medicine has taken action against a Sioux City plastic surgeon.
A hearing is scheduled for October for Dr. Adam Smith.
The board alleges Dr. Smith failed to provide appropriate surgical care to seventeen patients between December of 2014 to September of 2017.
Jena Reyes of Sioux City tells Siouxland Public Media News she is one of those patients.
Reyes says she underwent a tummy tuck in August of 2017 to try and fix lower abdominal pain experienced after childbirth.
“I started having complications immediately.”
Reyes says she looked disfigured after the procedure and then battled a major infection for several months.
“As a patient, please do your research on your doctor. Do a background check, Google search, find out where they practiced before. You can check.”
Dr. Adam Smith says he looks forward to defending his practice.
The U.S. Corps of Engineers is considering property buyouts, two new dams and a flood wall as options to reduce the flood threat in Omaha.
The Corps conducted a joint study with the Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District on quelling the flood threat and presented its findings at a public meeting Tuesday
