Start with the name for true reform of cosmetic surgery
Opinion
Opinion

Start with the name for true reform of cosmetic surgery

A review of patient safety issues in the cosmetic sector after decades of devastating patient harm is long overdue,but there is a long way to go before true reform takes place.

  • byDr Robert Sheen

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‘Profit over patient safety’:Health regulator launches review into cosmetic surgery industry

‘Profit over patient safety’:Health regulator launches review into cosmetic surgery industry

The national medical regulator has announced a sweeping review of the multibillion-dollar cosmetic surgery industry following an investigation by the Herald and The Age.

  • byAdele Ferguson andLauren Day
‘Miracle she was alive’:Cosmetic clinic patient rushed to ICU recounts horror
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‘Miracle she was alive’:Cosmetic clinic patient rushed to ICU recounts horror

A 42-year-old mother of three who was rushed to hospital after cosmetic surgery in November recounts her harrowing experience.

  • byAdele Ferguson
TikTok celebrity cosmetic surgeon reprimanded by regulator
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Healthcare

TikTok celebrity cosmetic surgeon reprimanded by regulator

Dr Daniel Aronov has been banned by the national health regulator from performing all types of cosmetic surgery and ordered to remove his social media posts.

  • byAdele Ferguson andLauren Day
‘Unimaginable things’:Whistleblowers lift lid on cosmetic surgery underbelly
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Opinion

‘Unimaginable things’:Whistleblowers lift lid on cosmetic surgery underbelly

Submissions made to a parliamentary inquiry into the health regulator make one thing clear,the cosmetic surgery sector has exploited weak regulation,hurting patients along the way.

  • byAdele Ferguson
‘It wasn’t worth it’:Sanja’s cosmetic surgery caused years of pain

‘It wasn’t worth it’:Sanja’s cosmetic surgery caused years of pain

Sanja Kukic is among about 150 women each year who undergo breast implant removal at reconstructive surgeon Anand Deva’s Sydney practice.

  • byLucy Carroll
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Celebrity cosmetic surgeon’s patient in ICU after major blood loss
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Celebrity cosmetic surgeon’s patient in ICU after major blood loss

A woman was found unconscious and rushed to hospital this week after receiving liposuction treatment and a tummy tuck from an associate of Dr Daniel Lanzer.

  • byAdele Ferguson andLauren Day
‘What have you done to me?’:Lanzer clinic patients reveal more harrowing experiences
Investigation
Investigation

‘What have you done to me?’:Lanzer clinic patients reveal more harrowing experiences

More than 100 Lanzer clinic patients have come forward to recount experiences of procedures that led to ‘putrid’ flesh,infections and excruciating pain.

  • byAdele Ferguson andLauren Day
Patients must come first:regulate cosmetic surgeons like any other doctor
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Opinion

Patients must come first:regulate cosmetic surgeons like any other doctor

It is a mistake to believe that training in cosmetic surgery happens in the ordinary course of training plastic surgeons. It does not.

  • byPatrick Tansley
Paris thin to the Kardashian butt,it’s boom time for cosmetic ‘cowboys’

Paris thin to the Kardashian butt,it’s boom time for cosmetic ‘cowboys’

The advent of “Instagram face”,and the normalisation of “mummy makeovers”,boob jobs,and now Brazilian butt lifts and “designer vaginas”,has cosmetic surgery being promoted as proudly aspirational - despite the “lack of transparency”.

  • byWendy Tuohy
How the cosmetic cowboys ran free on the wild west of social media
Investigation
Social media

How the cosmetic cowboys ran free on the wild west of social media

The backlash has been swift after a litany of troubling practices across cosmetic surgeon Dr Daniel Lanzer’s network was uncovered.

  • byAdele Ferguson andLauren Day