Woman posing as doctor permanently damaged victim during cosmetic procedure, prosecutors say

BOSTON (Gray News) – A woman in Massachusetts is expected to be arraigned Thursday after officials said she posed as a doctor and performed a cosmetic surgery on a woman that resulted in permanent damage to the victim.

According to Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden, 34-year-old Dingrui Wang has been charged with four counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious injury, one count of kidnapping and two counts of larceny over $1,200 by false pretense.

She has also been charged with unauthorized practice of medicine and improper use of the title of physician and receiving payment for a surgical procedure based on that misrepresentation.

A Suffolk grand jury indicted Wang on Jan. 29.

According to the district attorney, Wang represented herself as a licensed physician and performed a double-eyelid blepharoplasty on a 22-year-old in January 2020. She did not hold a Massachusetts physician registration at the time of the surgery.

Wang injected local anesthetic into the patient’s eyelids during the surgery along with non-FDA-approved dermal fillers. This resulted in permanent scarring to the victim.

The district attorney said the victim was in extreme pain after the first eyelid was done and attempted to leave the facility. However, Wang pushed her back onto the table and prevented her from leaving until the surgery was finished.

Wang also misrepresented herself as holding current esthetician, massage therapist and hair salon licenses on a loan application to the American Lending Center and received a $37,379 loan while her licenses were suspended, the district attorney said.

“Physicians are licensed for very good reasons, primarily among them the assurance that patients are going to be treated by someone trained and certified to deliver safe, effective medical procedures,” Hayden said. “When misrepresentations are made, the results can be devastating.”