Consequences for an unqualified Broward anesthesiologist in a mother’s butt-lift death
Florida’s Board of Medicine has revoked the medical license of a Plantation gynecologist for what happened when she administered anesthesia — a 26-year-old mother of two died after Brazilian butt lift surgery.
The final order revoking Dr. Millicent Muir’s license states “the facts are not in dispute” about Muir’s role in Jaynisha Williams’ death at Plantation’s The Best U Now on Oct. 20, 2021.
Williams consented to receive Level 2 sedation, which is defined as “moderate or conscious sedation.” But Muir, who was not certified to provide anesthesia, gave her 50 mg of Benadryl, 2 mg of Versed, 50 mg of Ketamine followed 20 minutes later by 50 mg of Demerol, another 2 mg of Versed, 200 mg of ketamine and 10 mg per minute of propofol.
That’s Level 4 sedation, what would be considered general anesthesia.
Muir “administered this deep level of anesthesia although the patient was consented for anesthesia services to a level 2 sedation with propofol, signed by [Muir] and the patient,” the state’s anesthesia expert wrote in his analysis. “In the consent form, the choices of the anesthesia administration were surgeon, anesthesiologist or certified registered nurse anesthetist or registered nurse. However, [Muir] added a fifth handwritten option that identified herself as a “sub RN under supervision of the surgeon.”
Williams was put in a prone position, but never intubated — no tube was placed in her trachea to keep an open air flow route. The expert said intubation “would have likely averted this outcome.”
Williams’ heart rate slowed and she began suffering an oxygen deficiency. Neither emergency medical services nor emergency staff at Planation General Hospital could save her.
The state’s expert summed up the tragedy:
“The patient suffered cardiac arrest and death due to an anesthetic administered in higher doses than the patient consented for, with an inappropriate combination of medications, with an unprotected airway, in a surgery performed both in the prone and supine positions, with an underwhelming resuscitative effort, by a non-certified anesthesia provider.”
Muir had been licensed in Florida since Dec. 14, 2005. This was the second disciplinary action against her.
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Others involved in The Best U Now
Other parties involved in The Best U Now, which closed its license in 2022.
▪ Muir was allowed to be the anesthesiologist on Williams’ surgery by the surgeon, Dr. John Nees. As The Best U Now’s designated physician, the doctor in charge of compliance, Nees knew Muir’s qualifications or lack of them. A Florida Department of Health administrative complaint against Nees says he listed Muir only as “recovery personnel,” not an anesthesia provider.
Nees was hired as designated physician, despite being twice suspended by the state, once for flouting rules by doing surgeries on suspension.
▪ The Best U Now was the business name for Serenity Capital Investments, which the state says was run by “Dr. Dorian Wilkerson.” Wilkerson, Williams’ cousin, was called “Dr. Body” on the website and pictured with a stethoscope in medical coat and scrubs on one of his LinkedIn pages, although he holds neither medical degree nor medical license.
Wilkerson’s most recent LinkedIn page removes Emory University and epidemiology degree references and shows him in business attire. He didn’t answer a Miami Herald email asking why Muir was allowed to be an anesthesiologist on the surgery that killed his cousin.
▪ Serenity Capital’s registered agent was Shareza Wilkerson, then Dorian’s wife, now going by “Shareza Jackson” again. Jackson has filed two legal actions against Wilkerson in Broward County: a divorce and a lawsuit claiming her Lauderdale Lakes Boyd Anderson High School schoolmate defrauded her out of several hundred thousand dollars.
Jackson says she didn’t know about Wilkerson’s 2002 theft conviction (sentence of five years’ probation, $50,000 restitution) and that he lied about being a medical doctor, and an epidemiologist once employed by the CDC.
Wilkerson has filed a counterclaim for “libel, slander, pain and suffering and unjust enrichment.” In another filing on the same case, he claims to be unemployed, indigent, and living in what public property records say is a 2008-built, 5,417-square-foot house in Fayetteville, Georgia.
