GP ordered to repay $300k in MBS claims for cosmetic work
The GP was found to have billed attendance items and skin procedures with no therapeutic necessity.
Tag: Cosmetic procedures
Health ministers promise crackdown on cosmetic ‘surgeon’ title
The planned reform follows a string of botched operations involving unregistered practitioners.
Surgeons may be exploiting rising demand for ‘explant’ surgery
Women could be left 'deformed' by unnecessary implant removal, says Professor Anand Deva.
‘Sheer luck’ saved patient after GP’s morphine mistake
He administered the drug during a cosmetic procedure because he'd run out of pethidine.
Body modifier to stand trial over snowflake implant death
He faces manslaughter and mutilation charges over implant and branding allegations.
How a trek at altitude turned my patient’s breasts into a ‘Picasso painting’
REAL CASE: The 50-year-old conquered the Himalayas but experienced unusual and painful symptoms along the way, writes Professor Max Kamien.
