March 21, 2023

Reckless: Surgeons warn health ministers that cosmetic cowboy reforms will fail

The changes are dangerous and patients will pay the price, they say. Surgeons say an endorsement model for accrediting cosmetic surgeons will fail to stop unscrupulous doctors from operating on patients. Health ministers last month agreed to the reforms as part of a suite of changes aimed at tightening up the cosmetic surgery industry following […]

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‘Legitimises the activities of unscrupulous operators’: Cosmetic surgery safety fears

Doctors will be able to receive an official “endorsement in cosmetic surgery” from the Medical Board of Australia despite not undertaking the training that would make them proper surgeons, after the country’s health ministers agreed to create a special category in an attempt to regulate the controversial industry. The move has alarmed the Royal Australasian

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