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    Belgian-Israeli businessman Ehud Arye Laniado, founder of Omega Diamonds, suffered a fatal heart attack while undergoing injections intended to enlarge his penis.

    However, prosecutors later downgraded the charges to failure to assist a person in danger, drug-related offences, and practising medicine without a licence.

    Call me paranoid, but I’d like anyone giving me penis injections to be licensed to practice medicine.

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      You sound like the brainwashed masses. He, a billionaire, was much more qualified to determine if someone is fit to practice medicine than some institutional board. Obviously, otherwise he wouldn’t have been a billionaire.

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      Not me. I want one who’s finished with practicing and ready for the big show. That’s why I only use doctors who are no longer “practicing.” Cuz I’m not a fucken idiot.

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      I wonder if this is a benefit to having health insurance: my insurance presumedly vets doctors in their network, so I’d have a hard time going to anyone unlicensed.

      On the other hand, if I got penis enhancement surgery my insurance wouldn’t cover it anyway, so I’d probably not care if they were out of network.

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        Socialized medicine also vets the doctors they have on payroll. Extra bonus: their vetting process doesn’t involve a willingness to fuck patients over for extra cash.

        Also, regardless of who pays, always check the doctor’s credentials and more importantly their online reviews - there are a lot of crappy doctors that are acting perfectly legally.

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          That makes sense. I wasn’t thinking American-style health insurance vs socialized medicine, I was thinking American-style health insurance vs self pay.

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          Extra bonus: their vetting process doesn’t involve a willingness to fuck patients over for extra cash.

          Funny when here in Belgium, the government put a couple decades ago a cap on the number of doctors who were allowed to graduate medical school (numerus clausus). The goal is to reduce the number of doctors to pay for (with the support of existing doctors who want less competition).

          The predictable result of artificial scarcity? I live a major city and if I want an appointment with any specialist it’s a 6+ months delay or a 1-2 months if you can justify a daytrip to Brussels. This is having real tangible impacts on quality of care.

          Obviously I would not trade my healthcare system for the American one but let’s not pretend that money and greed aren’t factors.

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      As one of the people going through the Files right now, believe me, less billionaire penises is a good thing.

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    An autopsy later confirmed that Laniado died from cardiac hypertrophy, a condition involving an enlarged heart.

    A search of his hotel room revealed he had been taking multiple substances banned in France, along with vasodilators commonly used to treat erectile dysfunction. According to judicial sources, these substances are believed to have contributed to his death.

    Ah, so it had nothing to do with the procedure, dude was on a cocktail of his own drugs, didn’t tell the doctor, had a heart attack.

    So, if it was anyones fault, it was the pathetic billionaires fault. Also anyone who gets rich from diamonds is always, 100%, a scumbag.

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      It’s honestly really sad for the surgeon. Before undergoing surgery the patient must disclose everything that could make complications on the operation for a reason, a doctor does not care what crimes the patient commits and won’t have a reason to snitch, but not knowing the patient using banned substances that affect surgery could lead to life altering (and in this case outright ending it) problems.

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    Damn what a way to go, now the whole world knows he had a small dick as the last thing he does.

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      Not necessarily. Data suggests that most people that feels that way have average sized penises. It’s not reality what fails to them, it’s their ego.

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    Lol. Lmao. Dude had billions of dollars and fucken died cause he wanted a bigger dick.

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    Number one. Steady hand. One day, billionaire need big penis. I do operation. But mistake! Billionaire die! Capitalists very mad! I hide fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car and new woman. Darryl save life.

    My big secret. I kill billionaire on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!

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    I still think autoerotic asphyxiation is the most embarrassing way to die, but, thanks to this article, I’ve now been introduced to a close second.

    The fact that he was a billionaire diamond magnate just makes it easier to laugh.

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      this is definitely worse than autoerotic asphyxiation, that’s just someone trying and failing to explore their kink…this is just someone who won the game of life being insecure about his dick

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      Maybe the surgery was a success. Dude asked for a dong the size of a Pringles can, got one, and all his blood went to it and he died. Checks out to me.

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      Choking to death on stolen panties must be up there in the rankings. No cases to cite but would be surprised it was zero.

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    I applaud billionaire willing to die to show us what’s right and wrong. Submarine excursions when you have no clue what you’re doing, ruining the lives of millions with price hikes, penis enlargement surgery with unlicensed surgeons… keep at it billionaires. Let’s step: going to Mars without a backup plan, because thinking things ahead is for pussy. You can do it!

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    I can’t believe being a billionaire wasn’t enough for this man, he was still insecure that he felt the need to buy a bigger dick.

    I don’t know who needs to hear this, but women don’t need a gorilla sized dick! They need you to eat them out! (this guy had a wife. We need to ask men if they crave gorilla dicks)

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      Not even that bigger. Enlargement surgery is highly risky (even if this guy died of a heart attack), and only promises like 2cm in additional length. Girth increases are slightly more substantial though. It sounds like he was getting the type that is just an injection of fat in the dick, which is comparatively less risky.

      The risks involved are wild. A sizable amount of doctors doing enlargements have questionable standings with their local medical boards. It’s also not uncommon to find places that are very vague about what they are adding or changing about your body, while promising extreme results. Infections, loss of function, constant erection due to the addition of harder structures, decreased sensitivity are some of the more alarming, yet not uncommon risks. As it’s an elective, specialized surgery, practices are often aggressive and manipulative in dealing with clients/potential clients. Is not unheard of for places to require multiple surgeries, when it turns out there were complications with the first one.

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      being a billionaire wasn’t enough for this man

      If someone is unhappy with who/what they are, no amount of money can ever fill that hole.

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    Kind of weird that the surgeons are implicated to have caused it in the headline, when he died of a heart problem unrelated to the cosmetic surgery.

    You’d think the drugs and medications he was taking would be more at fault in that case.

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      The surgery was not found to be the cause of death. It’s just included in the headline this way for clicks.