Sasha Lauren
Please describe your experience & involvement with patient safety advocacy.
As a licensed massage therapist from 1984-2011, Sasha Lauren gave over 30,000 therapeutic massage sessions and taught deep-tissue and ethics for massage therapists. Throughout her career as a therapist and organizer, she witnessed a multitude of clients harmed by medical misdiagnoses and mistreatment, including dangerous polypharma. In November 2011, after doing significant research, Sasha went to have a conservative breast reduction for structural reasons due to having inherited large breasts on a small frame (32G). At the time, she was an athletic, muscular, outgoing and successful business owner. The surgeon referred by her PCP lied about the procedures and surgically assaulted her causing serious bodily injury. Since then, Sasha has extensively researched the innate, scientifically proven harm caused by adipose tissue (AT) removal – along with the culture of propaganda, lies, false records and reviews, gags, blaming and framing the victims, and legal cover-ups that are pervasive in the field. She has interviewed hundreds of people – mostly women – harmed by AT removal, contacted coroners, and collaborated with medical professionals and a biochemist who researches leptin. Sasha participated in the Patient Safety Panel for NEJM, (2017), and is a regular speaker at Medical Board of California meetings, (2017 – present). She helped with an article about medical gag clauses for USA Today, wrote a legal blog, and edited the Liposuction page on Wikipedia in which she removed airbrushed photos and propaganda and added scientific info. Ms. Lauren drafted proposals re: liposuction and co-authored records and wrote 1) “The Liposuction Research Paper,” 2) ten articles for CityWatch Los Angeles, and 3) a novel that deals with medical malpractice. “Final Lullaby,” will be published in August 2023.
The Liposuction Research Paper
Sasha Lauren’s articles on CityWatch Los Angeles
Tell us why you want to be part of PSAN.
I want to share my expertise. Harmful plastic and cosmetic procedures have become normalized over the past several decades. Liposuction is a non-curative, harmful, poorly regulated procedure that is done for cost-benefit, not patient-benefit. In the eleven years I’ve advocated for consumer protection with regards to liposuction, countless lives have been ruined and lost due to lipo.
What areas of patient safety do you believe deserve our focus?
Harmful plastic and cosmetic procedures, including but not limited to liposuction. Harm by psychiatrists. The need to record consultations and surgery. Consumer co-authored records.
How would you like to contribute to further PSAN’s goals?
I believe that liposuction (in all forms) needs to be stopped. The public ought to be educated about the innate biological harm of removing, freezing, or burning fat cells in any procedure.
What skills do you have that would be helpful to PSAN?
I am passionate and persevering; I write and speak about my experience as a natural health care practitioner and a surgical assault victim who has done over a decade of deep research.