The doctor who performed liposuction and a breast reduction on rapper Kayne West’s mother Dr. Donda West the day before her death has been revealed as a drunken incompetent plagued by malpractice suits. People Magazine says

[Dr. West's] operation, performed by Dr. Jan Adams, lasted eight hours, twice as long as expected, leading other doctors to speculate that something may have gone wrong during the procedure. According to a separate report, the California Medical Board sought to revoke Adams’s physician and surgeon’s certificate this year following multiple DUI arrests in recent years. [It was also reported that] another plastic surgeon recently refused to perform procedures on Donda West due to a health condition that allegedly made her susceptible to a heart attack.

TMZ says of the malpractice suits:

Bonita Hovey claims in December 2005, Dr. Adams performed a tummy tuck on her and botched the job. According to the suit, Hovey claims Adams “negligently failed to possess and exercise, in both diagnosis and treatment, that reasonable degree of knowledge and skill that is ordinarily possessed and exercised by other physicians and surgeons … [Dr. Adams] failed to give the plaintiff proper preoperative and postoperative follow up care … resulting in a “postoperative infection” that caused her to undergo two surgeries to remove sutures and revise her scar.

The suit claims Adams made a “false assertion that he was a board certified plastic surgeon” and she relied on that representation in choosing him.

But wait! There’s more!

According to the suit filed by [Teana Lucas], after the [liposuction] procedure, [Dr. Adams] told her she should get dressed and that he was taking her out for dinner. After three glasses of wine, the medicated plaintiff claims she was “heavily intoxicated” when Dr. Adams took her to his house and had sexual intercourse with her. Lucas claims she became pregnant and Dr. Adams… referred her to an OB/GYN who could “take care of the problem.” Lucas also claims he botched her two surgeries. She sued for sexual battery and malpractice. Adams denied all the allegations, but settled the case.

You usually only find this type of doctor on a soap opera or in a back alley in Guatemala. It’s easy on a soap opera to know he’s evil — the eye patch and frequent soliloquies in which he proclaims his plans to eliminate the Bradys once and for all are a dead giveaway. It’s much harder to tell in real life. A good rule of thumb is if your doctor has 14 different malpractice suits and three DUIs and penchant for knocking up his patients post-surgery, he’s probably not the guy you want cutting into your abdomen and rearranging your vital organs. Same goes for anyone who starts off the consult with a goat sacrifice and a round of “warm-up” tequila shots or the guy whose assistant is actually a monkey wearing mittens. Please! Everyone knows monkeys operate best when their fingers are nice and warm. The trick to catching a medical fraud is to keep an eye out for that kind sloppiness. It could be the difference between life and death.