Surgeon stabbed fellow doctor to stop him testifying at his disciplinary hearing: UK
A plastic surgeon who cycled through snow to stab a colleague set to testify against him in a disciplinary hearing has been found guilty of…
Tag: Plastic surgery
Best AusDoc clinical cases of 2024: New breast reconstruction techniques, vomiting chefs, and meat-based diets
With the year coming to an end, the AusDoc clinical team has selected some of its best clinical articles from the last twelve months. They…
$500 for a nurse to pass a sandwich? The extravagant waste in our health system
Over the course of my life, I have seen basic office procedures increasingly move to hospital-only settings. Personally, I recall having a sigmoidoscopy in the…
‘It’s almost like genital mutilation’: Plastic surgeon tells of his work repairing botched labiaplasties
Professor Mark Ashton says the rise in young women having undergone botched labiaplasties is “nothing short of worryingly spectacular”. The number of women coming to…
Successful sensory preservation for the breast and nipple post-mastectomy
Justine, a 54-year-old woman with no familial breast cancer history, presents with biopsy-confirmed left breast cancer. She undergoes initial left unilateral therapeutic mammoplasty for tumour…
TGA quietly bans doctors from advertising ‘anti-wrinkle injections’
A ban on advertising “dermal fillers” or “anti-wrinkle injections” has angered cosmetic doctors, who say the TGA did not provide any warning or guidance ahead…
Doctors won’t see gender parity in most surgical specialties during their lifetime: Aussie study
It will take eight generations, or more than 180 years, before the number of female orthopaedic and cardiothoracic surgeons is the same as their male…
Surgeon denies he was ‘reckless’ after performing mentoplasty despite dropping the chin implant on the floor
A plastic surgeon has been reprimanded after he dropped a chin implant on a theatre floor before picking it up and placing it in a…
Doctors lodge bid for gender-affirming surgery Medicare items
Plastic surgeons are seeking new Medicare items for gender-affirming interventions for transgender adults, including masculinising chest surgery for those assigned female at birth. The Australian…
Surgeon’s emergency suspension lifted after ‘inexplicable’ medical council blunder
The Medical Council of NSW has been criticised by a judge after it suspended an ENT surgeon without acknowledging his expert defence report questioning the…
