A TikTok plastic surgeon known as Dr Roxy has had her medical license permanently revoked after livestreaming botched liposuction.

Dr Katharine Roxanne Grawe, from Ohio, lost her fight to regain the right to practice her profession yesterday after the state medical board ruled to permanently revoke it, MailOnline reported.

She was first struck off in November 2022, after the board cited ‘clear and convincing’ evidence that her practice presented ‘a danger of immediate and serious harm to the public’.

The board noted a specific instance in which a patient had to receive medical attention after undergoing liposuction, Brazilian buttlift and skin-tightening procedures by the TikTok star. 

The patient was sent to the emergency room, where she suffered an episode of hepatic encephalopathy, resulting in loss of brain function when a damaged liver fails to remove toxins from the blood.

Surgeons later found her bowel had been perforated and she had contracted a serious bacterial infection.

As a result, the woman was forced to undergo multiple procedures to remove dead tissue, plus open abdomen and skin grafting.

The original procedure that is alleged to have caused the complications was livestreamed by Dr Grawe on social media, the Ohio State Medical Board noted. 

They also stated that Dr Grawe was evidently distracted from the surgery, as she looked and spoke to the camera while performing the delicate operation. 

Dr Grawe had gathered thousands of followers on TikTok, some of which sought her services after stumbling on the content she regularly posted on her channels. 

The disgraced surgeon claims she always obtained permission before sharing footage from the operations, but the state medical board hit back saying that it was inappropriate of her to share the footage – and that she should have been fully focused on the procedures.