A cosmetic doctor has been sanctioned for conducting Skype consults with patients that frequently lasted less than a minute.  

In a decision handed down this month, the NSW Professional Standards Committee found the doctor guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct and reprimanded him for his “essentially passive” role, where he acted mostly as a prescriber of cosmetic injectables.   

Although his evidence changed, the doctor initially said, while he was working as a medical director of Laser Clinics Australia, he was conducting video consults ranging from two to four minutes for new patients and 40 to 45 seconds for returning patients.

He was exposed by chance during an investigation into cosmetic clinics by the NSW Ministry of Health.