There has been (more) media attention recently about events at a Sydney “cosmetic surgery” clinic. I think it is worth (again) pointing out a few key issues in this case. A report from the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission has been scathing in its assessment of practices at “The Cosmetic Institute” (TCI), a popular cosmetic surgery clinic which operates from Sydney, but has recently become operational on the Gold Coast (which concerns my patients and I directly!). The clinic was on the receiving end of a huge amount of bad press last year after another case of a young woman undergoing a breast augmentation procedure who had to be transferred urgently to an Intensive Care unit at a nearby major hospital, suffering from “local anaesthetic toxicity”. The report, which it seems has been obtained by various media outlets, is reported to have found that: patients were given high doses of sedative medications in facilities not accredited to do so; anaesthetic drugs were given in excess of safe limits; patients suffered serious cardiac (heart) symptoms related to the massive doses of local anaesthetic given; and finally the report states that The Cosmetic Institute placed the health and safety of the public … Continue reading A quick word about “cosmetic” surgeons