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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With the glamourised and sexualised marketing of breast implants, you would be forgiven for thinking they were a simple, risk-free, and relatively painless procedure. 

This episode, we speak to Professor Anand Deva, who has conducted studies on breast implants. We talk about SSBI (Systemic Symptoms associated with Breast Implants), which is often referenced as BII (Breast Implant Illness). We also discuss several aspects of breast implants, and what it is important for patients to know before going under the knife.

If you know someone who has breast implants, or is considering getting them, this is the most important episode they can watch. There is no marketing, no upselling, no convincing, no minimising, and no manipulation. It is intended to be a hard listen, but an important listen.

No other podcast discussing breast implants goes this deep. This won’t uplift you but it will engage you. 

Watch this video podcast to learn more about breast implants.

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In an Australian exclusive, we bring you unheard insights from the nurse whistleblower who first spoke up about the Dr Lanzer clinics. 

From influencers to industry conduct to regulator contact, this episode covers the broad experience of nurse Justin Nixon. What compelled him to blow the whistle? What impact did it have on his life? What needs to change for healthcare whistleblowers?

We cover important aspects of the whistleblowing in the cosmetic surgery industry and what has gone wrong over the years. This episode is an important and unique listen for those within healthcare, those studying, and all people who are considering cosmetic surgery.

Watch this video podcast to learn more about Justin Nixon and listen to a powerful discussion which unmasks the hidden cost of blowing the whistle. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @operation.redress for snippets and trailers.

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The cosmetic surgery industry is currently in a state of reform in Australia. What has been particularly shocking is the often excessive and manipulative advertising which glamourises, sexualises, or normalises cosmetic surgery.

This episode is with Maddison Johnstone and Michael Fraser, who appeared on 60 Minutes and Four Corners documentaries as social media experts. After viewing tens of thousands of social media posts, they became aware of concerning conduct being standardised in the aesthetic plastic surgery industry. They discuss things like glamour shoots, the problem with lifestyle images, terms like ‘mummy makeover’, and the minimisation of the risks. 

Australia is now one of the leading countries in the world with their tough new cosmetic surgery advertising rules. Watch this video podcast to learn more, and follow us on Instagram and TikTok @operation.redress.

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Michael Fraser and Maddison Johnstone introduce Surgery Secrets: Beauty’s Dark Side, the podcast. Entirely focused on researching corporate misconduct, franchising, transport, wage theft, due diligence and more, Michael and Maddison’s own lives were changed when they received a call late one night. 

This podcast explores the dark themes of the cosmetic surgery and injectables industry worldwide, with season one on Australia. Get to know the people behind the podcast and understand their experience as consumer and worker advocates with Operation Redress in exposing corporate wrongdoing, worker exploitation, consumer rip-offs, and eventually the cosmetic surgery industry. 

To view the practitioner guidelines mentioned in this episode, click here: https://www.medicalboard.gov.au/Codes-Guidelines-Policies/Cosmetic-medical-and-surgical-procedures-guidelines.aspx

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