Surgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark Side Michael Fraser and Maddison Johnstone

Treating differences in looks as a deformity or disease which needs to be fixed or cured is a common marketing tactic used by the cosmetic surgery and injectables industry.

Philosopher and physician Dr Yves Saint James Aquino joins us to discuss the concept of pathologising ugliness, and his research behind doctors using medical terms to suggest cosmetic surgery is a need.

It is a huge topic to explore, and we touch on bullying, abnormal vs normal, “fixing” our healthy bodies, shifting beauty standards, trends, and Asian features being pathologised.

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Australian medical negligence lawyer Rosy Listing discusses suing your surgeon, doctor, or injector. This contains valuable information that can help guide you even before your first consult.



Rosy talks about empowering yourself with information, and should things go wrong with your cosmetic surgery or injectables procedure, empowering yourself with legal advice to potentially take the next steps.



What kind of money can you get from suing your surgeon? What evidence do you need? Is it difficult to meet the threshold to sue your surgeon? These questions are answered in this episode.



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Body image researcher Dr Veya Seekis joined us for a deep discussion on how social media is influencing people of all ages to get cosmetic surgery or injectables. 

This episode is an important listen for everyone, especially parents of young children who are using social media. Did you know it takes just 7 minutes of viewing beauty content on social media for young women to feel dissatisfied with their appearance? 

We discuss her research which covers social media and beauty content, but also how beauty content on social media influences people’s decision to get cosmetic surgery. Body positivity and body neutrality are also topics discussed, including how the cosmetic injectable and surgery industry has hijacked these movements.

Watch this video podcast to better understand beauty content on social media, and its influence on cosmetic surgery and injectables.

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Catch up on past episodes in the mean time.

What are patients to do when things go wrong with their surgery? Unfortunately, it happens.



This episode, we speak to Dr Margaret Faux, who is a medical regulation and Medicare expert. Dr Faux featured in the three Cosmetic Cowboys documentaries available on our Linktree.



Not only do we cover regulation and complaints, but we also discuss Medicare. Cosmetic surgery, being purely aesthetic, is often incorrectly charged to Medicare, including pre-operative pathology. Learn why Medicare is not supposed to be accessed by cosmetic surgery patients.



Watch this video podcast to better understand the complex world of cosmetic surgery complaints.



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Our guest this week is AHPRA National Director (CSEU) Jason McHeyzer. We discuss cosmetic surgery regulation and enforcement, whistleblowing, advertising rules, making a complaint about your surgeon, mandatory practitioner reporting obligations, influencers, and more. This episode is designed to assist patients, but we believe that practitioners will equally benefit from listening to this engaging conversation.

The number to AHPRA’s Cosmetic Surgery Hotline is 1300 361 041.

You can find more information about cosmetic surgery complaints, notifications, guidelines and more on AHPRA’s website using the link below.

https://www.ahpra.gov.au/Resources/Cosmetic-surgery-hub.aspx

Tune in to this episode of Surgery Secrets: Beauty’s Dark Side for yet another unique and engaging discussion.

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