In October last year, a joint investigation by the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the ABC's Four Corners program uncovered serious hygiene and safety breaches at the premises of controversial medical practitioners who some refer to as cosmetic cowboys.

Now a review into the sector has been completed and recommendations have been put forward and accepted, including a dedicated enforcement arm charged with overseeing the industry to ensure the practices exposed by the media reports don't happen again... but is it enough?

Today The Quicky team investigates how bad the fall out from an unregulated medical profession can be and whether more needs to be done to make sure those who don't need any formal qualification in cosmetic surgery to perform the procedures, don't ride into cowboy territory again. 

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Host: Claire Murphy

With thanks to: 

Kate Avery - Personal Injury Lawyer at Kare Lawyers

Professor Anand Deva - Director of Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery at the faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Macquarie University

Producer: Claire Murphy

Executive Producers: Kally Borg, Liv Proud

Audio Producer: Thom Lion

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