Long Island councilwoman sues TV’s ‘most beautiful doctor’ over botched procedure she never requested

A vein treatment at clinic owned by a celebrity surgeon has left a Long Island Councilwoman in crippling agony, after she was given a procedure she never agreed to that was painfully botched, a new lawsuit claims.

Oyster Bay Town Councilwoman Vicki Walsh claims a doctor employed by TV medical pro Dr. David Greuner — who was once dubbed “America’s Most Beautiful Doctor” — was supposed to give her a complimentary vein test under anesthesia, but wound up giving her an unexpected surgery.

The two-term Republican lawmaker claims Dr. Arno Rotgans did the 2020 surgery while she was passed out without her consent — and when she woke up, she was shocked to find out it was botched and had left her in agonizing pain.

“I can’t even move, especially my left side, I can’t walk,” Walsh, 58, told Newsday. 

Wash claims that stents the size of a nickel had been implanted deep in her pelvic region — devices that later collapsed and fused into her veins, her suit claims.

She said the doctors told her they did the procedure because she had an emergency situation with her veins.

“I couldn’t understand what was happening,” Walsh said. 

Other doctors have told her due to the fusion, the stents can never be safely removed since they could “shred” her veins, meaning the pain is just something she will have to live with, the suit says. 

Her lawsuit, filed in 2022, argues Greuner and his associates routinely lured patients like herself into his Gold Coast clinic with low-cost procedures, only to secretly upsell them into invasive and lucrative surgeries they didn’t need. 

The filings accuse the clinic of even going as far as falsifying insurance records and documenting past procedures that never actually took place to secure the approvals, while training staff to “convert” patients into bigger payouts.

The surgeon, who regularly appeared on national talk shows and flaunted a Hamptons lifestyle — has since been barred from practicing medicine in three states, including New York, according to state records.

Greuner has also been hit with a wave of malpractice suits from over a dozen patients, and was even arrested twice this summer in Nassau County on harassment charges tied to his former business partner, according to court records.

Meanwhile, Walsh said her life has been reduced to managing pain, avoiding parades, political events, and even family vacations, often forced to lean awkwardly just to sit down without stabbing discomfort.

“This happened to someone they knew was going to be in elected office,” she said. “If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone.”

Greuner did not respond to a request for comment. Rotgans passed away shortly after the surgery.