Two weeks ago, French doctor Michel Maure fled from Marseilles on his yacht after the state prosecutor recommended a jail sentence of four years. Maure was found guilty of illegal practice, wounding and endangering life, and was scheduled to be sentenced on September 8. Evidence against Maure came from 96 botched operations, including an account of one patient's breast implant sliding into her armpit overnight. They call him Dr. Death in France partly because his name is pronounced "mort" (which means death), but mostly because he has no formal medical training and a lengthy record of performing disastrous plastic surgery operations, leaving his patients physically scarred and mutilated. read more ...