Out of respect to Mr. Kanye I'm not going to bash his mom for her mistakes. A mistake that cost her, her own life. But I will question her actions.
As more and more information comes out. I can't help but not put the blame entirely on the surgeon. He just did what no other surgeon would. Perform the surgery.
The story is that Donda West saw the surgeon (I don't recall his name) who does work on the TV show Extreme Makeover to get a consultation. Apparently he turned her down because of the risk with her having thyroid or something. So in comes Dr. Jan Adams, who with no questions asked performed the procedures Donda asked for. Two days later, she's dead. Yes, he's partly to blame for her death, but she also has a part in it. If she had done her home work on the infamous Dr. Adams she would have found out about his lawsuits. Particularly of one Lori Ufondu, who sued Dr. Adams for malpractice, leaving surgical gauze in her breast for seven years! But no, I bet Donda was thinking "Great! A brotha gonna do me up." The dude's chop shop is right above a FedEx Kinko's, how credible is that? This can be summed up by the expression "you get what you pay for" and unfortunately for Donda West it cost her her life. She got caught up in her son's success and being thrown into this lifestyle where image is everything, she thought she needed to fix herself. It's a shame and it goes to show that even being a college professor for numerous years and having the higher education she had, the lifestyle still got the best of her...