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The Rise and Fall of the TikTok Plastic Surgeon
Dr. Katharine Roxanne Grawe’s story could become even more present in the future.
5 min readAug 15, 2023
We shouldn’t even be seeing the words TikTok and medical license in the same sentence. Yet here we are.
It’s hard to imagine spending so many years and so much money on medical school, all but ensuring a life of excellent earnings and prestige, only to squander it for internet points.
But these are the times we live in — and the road to perdition was not short.
The seeds of demise
From 2018 to 2022, Dr. Katharine Roxanne Grawe was seen all over TikTok, dancing in videos, and lip-syncing between surgeries. She built an enormous following in a short period of time.
Today, if you visit her business on Google? This.
She is yet another professional caught in her own social media crosshairs. And she had ample warnings before it all went wrong.
