Nov 28, 2006 6:32 pm US/Eastern
Brooklyn Teen Dies After Nose Job Surgery
by Deborah Garcia
BROOKLYN (CBS) ―
She was young, beautiful, and ambitious -- but 18-year-old Mor Glisko, a Brooklyn resident, couldn't help being self-conscious of her nose, which was broken in a car accident just last year. She had desperately wanted her nose fixed.
"I guess she just felt like ti was the one thing that kept her from feeling really perfect," Nofar Glisko, Mor's sister says. "She wanted it so badly and we were all behind her 100 percent."
As a gift to their daughter, Mor's parents paid Park Avenue plastic surgeon Dr. Yoel Shahar to perform a nose job on her last Wednesday.
"He told me, 'Don't worry, she's gonna be pretty, and quick, 45 minutes! One hour in the recovery room and then on Monday she can return to school,'" Tally Glisko, Mor's mother recalls.
Mor's mother says she only left her daughter alone for a few minutes when she went to get a cup of coffee. When she returned to the doctor's office, paramedics were already on the scene rushing Mor to the hospital.
"I said, 'Just tell me one thing, she is alive -- that is what I want to hear, she is alive!' All the time they told me, 'Right now, she is alive.' I told them, 'What do you mean right now she is alive? I don't understand,'" Tally says.
The next morning on Thanksgiving Day, Mor died in the hospital. When her parents demanded Shahar explain what went wrong with her operation, they say he blamed the anesthesiologist and refunded the $5,000 they had paid him.
"He's no doctor, he's a butcher," Ozi Glisko, Mor's father says. "The money is nothing, I want my daughter. I don't want money."
Despite leaving Shahar messages at both his Park Avenue and Englewood, New Jersey offices, the Gliskos have not heard back from the doctor.
CBS 2 News also attempted reaching out to Dr. Shahar and our calls have not been returned
Tally Glisko now wants her daughter's death to serve as a warning to others. "I want teenagers and everybody to know that it's not only recommendations from other people you need to check," she says.
When the Glisko family finishes sitting shiva, they plan to pursue legal action.
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