Cosmetic surgeon and wife fined for leaving fake medical review
Dr Min Sik Kim and Anna Min have been ordered to pay more than $450,000 in damages to Dr Cesidio Colagrande: Federal Court of Australia
A Gold Coast cosmetic surgeon and his wife must pay damages to another local doctor left “profoundly traumatised” after they published a fake review to sully his reputation.
Dr Min Sik Kim, known as Dr Mitchell Kim, and Anna Min must pay more than $450,000 to Dr Cesidio Colagrande, after the Federal Court of Australia found he had been left with PTSD by the online review.
Dr Colagrande had felt “sick to the bone” on discovering the review had been made by another doctor, with whom he’d had no previous interaction, Justice Jayne Jagot wrote in her decision last week.
The review was posted on the US-based RateMDs website, which is used by people across Australia, in December 2018.
