Jan Adams Mugshot

Dr. Jan Adams was arrested and booked on March 31, 2006, after pleading no contest to DUI. This was his second drunk driving conviction. This mug shot was taken after Adams turned himself in on December 29, 2006. He was released the next day. In March 2006 arrest, he was arrested in September 2002 after his vehicle lost control and hit a parked car. At the time, Dr. Jan Adams told officers on the scene that he lost control of his car when another vehicle failed to stop for a traffic signal. He was unable to provide a description of that car.

All this may make Dr. Adams look bad personally, and causes one to question his decision making skills, but it doesn’t make him guilty of anything related to the death of his patient Donda West, Kanye West’s mom. However, doing surgery on her twice as long as it normally takes, and then not referring her to a skilled recovery facility like a hospital even though she was high risk for complications, does raise a lot of red flags.

Dr. Adams has also been sued for malpractice twice, and lost twice. Click the link below to read more about Dr. Adams long legal history.

The paper trail of trouble is a long one for the Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Jan Adams M.D., who operated on Kanye West’s mom before her death. A document from the Executive Director of the California Medical Board asking the state to consider revoking or suspending Adams’ physician and surgeon’s certificate in April of this year.

The bombshell court document claims Adams has multiple DUI arrests and cites the board’s Business and Professions Code for a call to action that reads in part:

“The use or prescribing for or administering to himself or herself, of any controlled substance; or the use of any of the dangerous drugs specified in Section 4022, or of alcoholic beverages, to the extent, or in such a manner as to be dangerous or injurious to the licensee, or to any other person or to the public, or to the extent that such use impairs the ability of the licensee to practice medicine safely…"

The court papers detail a pair of alleged DUI arrests in Los Angeles, including March 31, 2006, with Dr. Adams arrested for blowing a .10 blood alcohol level during two breath analyzer tests and putting him over the legal limit. The case went to trial, and according to the document, Adams was found not guilty for driving under the influence and guilty of driving with a blood alcohol level of .08 percent or greater. He was sentenced to 96 hours in L.A. County jail, had to enroll in an alcohol treatment and counseling program and attend 60 AA meetings and five years probation, the papers state.

Another DUI in his court history is detailed in a case from January 16, 2003. Adams entered a plea of “no contest” to driving under the influence and was placed on three years probation, which included a three-month first offender alcohol and drug education and counseling program and restricted him from driving anywhere but to and from work for 90 days, according to the documents.

The court filing recommending the revocation of his doctor’s certificate also describes a car accident in September of 2002 when Adams allegedly lost control of his vehicle and struck a parked car. According to the documents, Adams told police he lost control of his car when another vehicle failed to stop for a traffic signal. Adams did not provide a description of the vehicle to the police, according to the Executive Director of the California Medical Board.

MORE PROBLEMS

Additional documents claim Dr. Adams was handed down two malpractice judgments by Los Angeles Superior Court for his medical practice. In August of 2001 he was ordered to pay $250,000 in one claim.

In September of 2001, he was ordered to pay $217,337 in another malpractice judgment.

California places a cap on non-economic damages for medical malpractice cases at $250,000.

As for the tragic death of Donda West, Dr. Adams told TMZ Monday that he did nothing wrong.