Exposing the dark underbelly of the cosmetic surgery industry | 60 Minutes Australia

The big cell phone is irresistible, a brilliant vanity appeal, and works for everything from tummy tucks to Brazilian butt lifts. Australians spend more than $1 billion a year on

cosmetic

surgery

. I feel like all these professional photos are what sucked me in, but wanting to look younger, slimmer, and better isn't always what you plan. Anyone with a basic medical degree can call themselves a

cosmetic

surgeon. Three surgeons are operating here. I'm doing liposculpture. You wouldn't know it from their social media accounts, but these doctors. There are no specialist surgeons who act while the patient is asleep, don't look now if you don't like blood, it's amazing, but legal loopholes allow them to perform major operations with little surgical training.

Take a look while it's still on the table, obviously. lying in their position but we have sculpted their chest, they trick patients into believing they have the necessary surgical skill to perform their procedures and when something goes wrong, if they are simply discharged to the nearest emergency department, the truth is weak regulations and a business model that puts profits before patients is leaving a trail of botched and mutilated bodies this is bordering on barbaric this is not what we demand of people performing surgeries in Australia tonight in a joint investigation with the Sydney Morning Herald and Age 60 Minutes exposes the

dark

side of the booming cosmetic

surgery

industry

, where celebrity doctors seduce patients into body modification surgery and cleverly display before and after photos on social media.

You only see the best of the best on their Instagram pages that you don't see. women who have had scar tissue who have to keep coming back to have things fixed, aren't you seeing patients who speak up being crushed into silence when everything goes wrong, they can't do that to me, no I can't just destroy my life and to think that they get away with it is not fair, there should be no doubt how dangerous cosmetic surgery can be. Six months ago I discovered shocking evidence of alarming practices at the clinics of famous dermatologist-turned-cosmetic surgeon Daniel. spear, behind the doors of his clinics, included bizarre images of doctors dancing while sticking long stainless steel cannulas into an unconscious male patient, worst of all, a culture of never admitting when things are going terribly wrong, never, ever, not even slightly, never, never, never, never, ever. admit to a patient that something is wrong or wrong because they will use it against you a hundred times the rest of your life never, ever, ever admit anything to daniel lance the consequences of being discovered were quick he was furious there is a well -well-known journalist her name is adele ferguson she thinks there are some things she has to do to stop dr lance but unfortunately she did the wrong thing it's a sad story this is the saddest day of my life but things were about to get a lot worse for daniel lance quit to his medical record and headed to israel living in this penthouse other doctors who work alongside him had some regulatory slaps but it still goes on people still don't realize that even if they go to other cosmetic surgery clinics that's that level attention is still not up to par because there are no regulations.

Registered nurses lauren hughish and justin nixon used to work for daniel lance and saw too much. What makes them angry now is that little has changed. I thought there would be massive changes. It's been six months since all this came to light, but there really hasn't been anything. We keep seeing the same type of behavior and it's as if the doctors seem indifferent to what has been said and don't seem to care tonight they want to tell how a doctor avoided scrutiny despite being at the heart of it all his name is dr ryan wells He was Dr Lanza's associate He was the person who did most of the work at Lansa's clinic He was Dr Lanza's workhorse when Lauren and Justin finally quit.

He went into damage control. He said: "Be careful who you talk to because it's our lives that are at stake. Don't just don't talk about the clinic, don't say anything about your experience at the clinic because if it comes out, we're all done for, that's very much the culture, you know, don't fuck with us, but you know, when I really went away and thought about it, the dog's act is not to speak on behalf of the patients, the victims, and the people who are -- was harmed after helping Dr. Wells in hundreds of procedures and consultations.

They have decided to speak out. Their practice puts the public at risk and yet, yes, regulators have not acted quickly. Dr. Wells joined the Lanza clinics with a basic medical degree and surgical experience limited. first case of the week, a mega liposuction, let's take a look at a previous shot in a few months he was advertising on social media important procedures such as mega liposuctions, tummy tucks and many face lifts, once again he did not like this sagging skin and bulky that ran through it. When he started earning a lot of money, he started flaunting his lavish lifestyle on his social media accounts.

Lance has taught him everything he knows, money was the bottom line for all doctors, it wasn't of interest to patients back then, Dr. Wells. publicly distanced itself from the Fallout lens excellence is and has always been our standard. I want to reiterate my complete disassociation from Dr. Lanza and his company in an email he sent me. Dr. Wells goes even further. He operated and managed the Brisbane practice within the unit. "Concessions have never been made regarding patient safety and at the same time he was telling the staff something completely different about the media coverage. I think it was weak.

Danny could accept something, but I feel like we didn't even have a show here." Everything will be fine, but all is not well in Dr. Wells' clinics, as much as Dr. Wells may say that he has broken away and has better standards and that the clinics operate completely differently. I think it's a joke, yes, it's not just former colleagues who speak out boldly. Patient Kathy Hubble wants everyone to know about her experience with Dr. Wells. This man is absolutely dangerous to the public. He was directly responsible for the procedure on my abdomen that has now left me with chronic pain and tissue that is hard and rubbery. um and loss of sensation in those areas as well in November 2018, Kathy was booked in for liposuction on her abdomen by Dr.

Wells. Two days passed after Dr. Lanza underwent liposuction on his legs, after having paid in full, he felt unable to leave. Once you've paid a lot of money and invested in a procedure that you think is going to help you, you can't go back, so you're in the deep end despite being in excruciating pain, she was sent straight home. . The next day I was at a point where I couldn't stand up, I couldn't sit down, I couldn't lie down, I couldn't move, I couldn't roll over and I was in so much pain that I was actually vomiting and my partner then took me to the hospital. hospital and they told me that I was actually in septic shock and that I had cellulitis from my knee to my belly button and they told me what caused it.

They knew it was because of the procedure which was a dirty procedure almost four years later. The former theater nurse is still in chronic pain, it interferes with every part of my life, every relationship, you know, intimacy, everything, the fact that she is trying to separate herself from Dr. Lanza's practices is absolutely terrifying, this man is Absolutely dangerous to the public. Kathy. Hubble isn't the only person to say it. 60 Minutes is aware of other disgruntled patients of Dr Wells, but they are unable to speak publicly after signing gag orders in exchange for refunds after their operations.

Others have joined a class action lawsuit where this woman underwent mega liposuction. of hers hers her thighs by Dr. Wells in November 2020 on her Instagram, she posted this before and after video, but let's take a look while she's still on the table and now let's take a look. She's obviously lying on her back, but we've sculpted all that fat. But this is what she really looks like, she said on 60 Minutes, she feels desperate and trapped in a deformed body. Patient stories aren't the only way to discover what really happens inside Dr Wells clinics. Incredible, we have also obtained thousands of internal messages and the videos and content are shocking, it is the most grotesque thing I think I have seen in my entire life in the world of cosmetic surgery.

Social media drives business for most patients. Instagram posts and tic tocs are the easiest way to judge a doctor. -Called Results Dr. Ryan Wells is a leading cosmetic surgeon with thousands of followers on Instagram, but there are many things that his followers and his patients have not seen until now, liposuction and then we are doing a fat transfer. This is simply baffling. We obtained thousands of leaked messages and videos showing what really happens behind closed doors at Dr. Wells' clinics. The amazing plastic surgeon Mark Ashton is Professor of Surgery at the University of Melbourne. We show you some of the disturbing scenes starring Dr.

Wells. This video was filmed while the patient was unconscious and naked, what was a fly hitting in the operating room? Yes, an operating room should be an isolated and protected area. This means it minimizes the risk of infection. The fact that there is a fly in the operating room means that. The system was broken and the patient was left completely naked without any cover while he used the blanket to attack the fly. We have known over the last 10 to 15 years that one of the most important critical factors in preventing infection after surgery is keeping a patient warm, we have performed three mega liposuctions and unsanitary operating rooms are just the beginning on Instagram and tick tock the Dr.

Wells made his name doing mega liposuction, an

industry

term for removing more than five liters of fat and fluid in a single procedure. We know this and it has been scientifically proven that trying to perform mega liposuction, that is, liposuction of more than five liters in a single session as an outpatient, that is, where the patient returns home at the end of the procedure, is incredibly dangerous. Here Dr. Wells brags to his followers about how much fat he can remove in a single day guess how many liters of fat we take 10 liters of that guess how much fat we remove 9 liters 13 liters of fat 32 liters of fat in total I'm full it's This macabre parade of males trying to outdo each other by 32 liters in three patients goes far beyond what world literature would suggest is the maximum amount of fat that should be extracted from patients.

There is also another type of liposuction that Dr. Wells performs, but you will never see it on social media. Okay, he's doing very well in this video shared on WhatsApp between Dr. Wells and his nurses in October last year. A woman is getting fat, manually squeezed from her legs. She's awake, but luckily she can't see the damn mess. spraying around Adele that here Jesus, where did you get that incredible thing from? I think it's the most grotesque thing I've ever seen in my entire life where to start uh lack of sterility lack of infection control biological hazards we have blood and contaminated fat being sprayed Throughout the operating room the gentleman wears normal slippers with inadequate protection for him and its staff there are no facilities to contain or trap the biological material that is being forcibly evacuated from the leg the procedure is performed while the patient is awake there There are so many things wrong with this scene that I just don't know where to start.

It would be very difficult to clean. I guess you can't clean it. To remove that material from the wall, you have to do what we call deep cleaning which is about a two hour process, which means that every patient that comes from now on is at risk because of the behavior of these individuals, yes, it really remembers a slaughterhouse and we in the clinics would be expected to clean up this mess. in less than 15

minutes

to have another patient through registered nurses justin nixon and lauren hewish say they worked on hundreds of procedures with dr wells say they were only given 10 to 15

minutes

, never two hours to clean the room after a procedure there There were many times later in the day when people would say what's that on the wall and there were flecks of fat and tissue that had been thrown around the theatre, yes it wasn't up to standard, dirty, yes, It would be just a quick bit of cleaning with the tuffy on the bed, a quick little mop of the floor and all the dirty instruments would be thrown into the staff room in a bucket with all the dirty clothes right next to it mixed with all of the staff's luggage. clean instruments. gets worse as of 2019 dr.

Wells regularly performed surgeries on the first floor of this commercial office building in Spring Hill Brisbane Justin Nixon worked next to him in this makeshift theaterWhen patients arrived on the day they were often horrified to discover that there was no special room there was no dedicated theater and they would say this, we are going to operate here and the doctors would say yes, take off your clothes, we are going to do the surgery in this room, here they didn't feel like they could leave, they had no other option. This is the before image. This video shows Dr.

Wells performing a breast reduction that involves surgical incisions to remove breast tissue on a male patient. He is in the Spring Hill office, which is not a registered day hospital. It's very small. very little fat in queensland if you have a breast reduction it must be done at a registered day center doctor margaret foe has spent 40 years researching the health system and believes the surgery performed at the unlicensed spring hill clinic was potentially an illegal breast reduction operation or anything related to a breast reduction, like a partial mastectomy, which is basically what has to be done in a registered healthcare facility and if you're telling me it wasn't a registered healthcare facility , then it seems that it was an illegal practice as well as shocking, it seems that Dr Wells and his staff are caught in a secret plan to jeep the The regulator in leaked internal WhatsApp messages from last year, a senior nurse tells staff that back up documentation before an audit.

She took a look around the hospital to see all the checklists. They must all have a date before March 2020. The date before you know points to the problem. of patient safety and what she showed me was just a blatant disregard for the obligations under those standards, I mean, they were falsifying records, so you can't go back and make up dates because you risk patient safety. senior nurse on whatsapp to hide certain chemicals and equipment in an attic before an upcoming audit all the owner's old instruments should be moved to the attic canisters and equipment should be hidden in the attic another message suggests that staff were reusing disposable equipment all disposable forceps Suture packets should be discarded if they were sterile, that was a heart stopping moment for me as I was reading.

I read it again and it said that disposable instruments and packages should be thrown away, not re-sterilized, so why was that a cardiac arrest moment? It is thought that they are re-sterilizing single-use instruments because if they are, that is unforgivable, it is as disgusting as washing a band-aid to be able to use it again, that is not what single-use disposable instruments are intended for. that's what was happening there i found out it's inconceivable inexcusable despite the best efforts of dr. wells to publicly distance himself from daniel lance we have discovered they are still in business together 60 minutes may reveal that his gold coast clinic is jointly owned by dr.

Wells and Daniel Lanza and in Brisbane Lanza also own the Dr Wells Queensland Day Hospital. The clinic is owned by Dr Lanza. He will always have a say in what happened. Look at this fat woman, what fat is going to become pure? Now they are injecting her into her breast cosmetic surgery The industry would have you believe that Lanza clinics were cowboy operators in an otherwise professional industry. Ryan is doing a mini tummy tuck, but as he's about to see, the problems affect the entire industry and he's out of control if he wants to see what's wrong with the cosmetic. industry there it is in the ultra competitive business of cosmetic surgery it is important to highlight in the cosmos clinic the operating rooms are used as performance spaces I never knew you could dance like this it should make a man want to speak Spanish and the doctors posed for the camera use men's hats while performing risky surgeries has earned them almost half a million followers on Instagram and tick tock and why did you get into this as a business?

There are also regular appearances on television. I look good on television. That's why I decided to start. I have created my own clinic and who will come to your office to do this type of work, the cosmos and its doctors strive to be everywhere. Hey guys, I have exciting news. It's been a long time coming, but we've finally made it. We've put all the pieces together, found the right doctor and the right location and will be coming straight to you in October 2019. Cosmos announced it would be opening a new cosmetic surgery clinic in Hawthorne, Melbourne. Founder Dr Joseph Ajaka took to Instagram to reveal the Doctor chosen to lead the Victorian business.

We had to find the perfect fit for the cosmos and this man is the perfect fit for the cosmos. With great honor, I present to you the doctor. Very good, we have been working with Dr. Reza since the end of last year. and we'll see him move to Melbourne, which makes us all sad because he's really been part of the Sydney team. I'm very excited and look forward to seeing you guys in Melbourne Cosmos' much-hyped recruit Dr. Reza. mahdi is a GP in 2018, he trained abroad at the European college of medicine and aesthetic surgery and then came back here and then followed curvature, what is the difference for example to manage because an organization that runs courses of facelift and tummy tuck in just 15 hours used his training to dazzle patients and perform other risky surgeries, including the Brazilian butt lift, posting it all on social media tight body in about half the time body we can't inject too much fat , otherwise the fat cannot survive.

You're going to die, you wouldn't know it from Cosmos' social media posts or TV appearances, but the Brazilian Butt Lift or BBL is considered so dangerous that many trained plastic surgeons like Professor Mark Ashton refused to perform them. The Brazilian butt lift is the most dangerous operation you can possibly consider undertaking. I don't think there are any plastic surgeons in Australia who would seriously consider doing Brazilian butt lifts knowing what we know now about the risk. I saw their Instagram page and they had tons of photos of lots of different girls. Basically, I couldn't find anywhere else other than Cosmos that had those results, so it seemed like a perfect fit.

Yes, they basically advertised and made everything seem like it was the best decision you could make. Well, they want you to think. which is as easy as one, two, three, you can go have the surgery in two weeks. You will return to your normal life in March of last year. Kisha Omoa, 26, booked a consultation with Dr Reza and there was no um. frames on the wall with their qualifications like you would normally see in a doctor's office, but that didn't set off any alarm bells, um in hindsight, now of course it's set up, it sets off a lot of alarm bells, but at the time I'm thinking to myself that he is a trained surgeon.

There is no way in Australia that a person can perform surgery on someone if they are not actually a plastic surgeon. After a brief chat, Keisha signed up for liposuction and a fat transfer for a baby. I can't believe something. This audio is the ambulance call she made at the clinic hours after waking up from surgery. What unit number are you in the gold column? Oh, Cosmos Clinic. Yeah, okay, I can see that one over there. Okay, is there anyone else around? No. I'm just out of procedure, there could be something very wrong. I really need to know the laws that I know and that's why we have all that organized for you.

As soon as I woke up I knew instantly that something was very wrong because I had never felt pain like that before in my life and I kept telling them from the beginning that I am in pain, I need help, something is wrong, something is wrong and I felt like someone I would have stabbed myself and I could feel this burning pain inside me like my abdomen and it just wouldn't stop and it kept getting worse and it got to the point where I kept passing out the whole time I was in recovery because the pain was so bad it basically just told me I'm not handling the pain very well and everything is normal and you know it will stop and I need to calm down.

He didn't realize she was starting to bleed because she didn't have the surgical skills. She had no experience in surgery. he had no surgical training, I practically begged them to call an ambulance and once I realized they weren't going to do it for me I realized I had to do it myself, the medical staff didn't realize the made. That she was almost dying in front of her very eyes. Five hours after waking up, Kisha finally arrived at the hospital. The tests came back after a few hours and said she had multiple lacerations to her liver and there was a pocket of blood because there was an internal wound. bleeding and that's the reason I was in so much pain after she left the hospital on May 3rd.

She went to see Dr. Reza, who admitted that she had covered herself. He basically said you know he made a mistake and maybe he had gone too. deep and you know he only apologized days later, she contacted head office in Sydney making a detailed complaint, it seemed like they didn't really believe what I said about what happened because for my part I was the only one telling my side of history despite warnings, the cosmos allowed dr. reza will continue to operate on other unsuspecting patients for many months, such as sinead molelli, in july she had a fight with dr.

Pray after surgery, the results were nothing like what he had seen on Instagram. There was a lot of buildup in the lower part of my abdomen, um, and also my buttocks were a different size and a different shape, there was a flatness in one of my buttocks, like I had been pressed against a wall. They didn't tell me that there could be a risk of both buttocks being different sizes. And they also didn't tell me that I would be at risk for maybe some type of nerve damage, but I have pain that goes down my leg and In my experience, that has been constant since I had surgery with Dr.

Rizza, I didn't even told about the risks when Sinead scheduled a follow-up appointment with Dr. Reza, she told him she felt cheated, she reached a halfway point. during our date where I really thought we were going to have a physical altercation when he started yelling at me telling me that he had been doing this for so long that his technique was the best. I feel like he was practicing on my body. and it didn't go accordingly and it just moved on to the next people who felt abandoned connected online with other cosmos patients like taylor i don't feel like i was cared for as a patient i feel like i was just a dollar sign and in and taylor had a fight with The doctor. prays in March of last year, more than a year after surgery, he still feels agonizing pain.

I have an egg shaped stone basically on my right cheek that causes me daily pain and it really feels like someone is stabbing me. I have not been able to sit comfortably since my surgery, which was over 12 months ago. Ultimately, if it weren't for her social media, she wouldn't have chosen a cosmetic surgeon. Taylor and Sinead say they both complained to Cosmos head office. in Sydney Taylor feels that they didn't take his pain seriously enough. I'm telling you I'm in significant pain every day and it's been almost 12 months and you're not following up on him at all so he hasn't gotten better even once.

You started contacting the head office, but it got worse after several emails. Head office offered a refund to Sinead, but there were conditions. I received an email from the general manager and the attachment said that in order to get the refund, call a settlement, I would need to sign an nda and I haven't signed it, the nda basically meant I couldn't talk about them in any way in the future , they wouldn't admit that something had been done wrong so they basically wanted to silence you yes yes yes that's how I read it with absolute sadness it's a common story for unhappy patients trying to talk after surgeries at cosmos clinic I was just fed up of people raving and saying look how many followers they look how great they are and that's why I left the Google review but they, along with a few others, were removed when you look at their fancy social media profile, it's obvious that in the cosmos clinic cameras are as essential as the liposuction cannula in clinics and day hospitals in five states, the fast talkers The face of cosmos is founder Dr.

Joseph Ajaka, the latest in skin synchronization. His skill in the large cell may impress some but horrify others and we discovered that the laser helped tighten the skin. As he talks to the camera, he pushes a long, thin instrument that measures about 18 inches long back and forth to the abdomen and has no idea where the tip is. Another Instagram post sees Dr. Ajaka filmed operating on a patient without wearing a mask. It's a plastic surgeon practice that Professor Mark Ashton would never do. Performing any surgical procedure requires thatPeople who perform that procedure comply with the basic principles of sterility which include wearing a mask, it means they don't care or they haven't received enough training to know that it is important, what is important to them is to protect their image by making sure that Nobody says anything bad about them among the tens of thousands of posts online, it is almost impossible to find a negative review or comment about the cosmos clinic, but that does not mean that there are no dissatisfied patients, I just thought that is not the case.

It's fair, they can't just do that to me, they can't just destroy my life and think they get away with it. It's not fair that this patient asked us to call her Rebecca in July 2020, the 28-year-old community. nurse booked in for liposuction and brazilian butt lift with dr. ajaka and another doctor cosmos after the surgery, she saw the results of her when you do lipo it is because you want it to be flat, that's why you do lipo on the abdomen so that it is more defined. a more defined abdomen had what looked like play dough rolled into a snake sticking out of my abdomen like a flap, there isn't an area it touched that looks better than before, especially my abdomen, my abdomen is, it's not just not good , it is abnormal, dr. ajaka seemed surprised when he saw it the first time he didn't exactly react, you know, he touched it, he pulled it, he pulled it, um, but he didn't seem surprised, um, but he did advise me.

This was the first time this had happened to any of his patients. How did it make you feel good? It's not special. That is sure. Did he ever admit that he had caused this? No, he just said it's your thin skin. You know we never could. I have predicted this, it was just your thin skin and I just said that is not possible, it is not possible for the skin to be like mine is after the revision surgery with Dr. Ajaka and another doctor failed in September. Rebecca posted about it on a private Instagram account, so I created a page where you know I took videos of you.

I know what the first day home was like. What you wear. What you know. You had to wrap things around yourself because you were leaking. So I recorded all of that and then I stopped posting on my Instagram page. Why did you stop doing it? I received a letter from her lawyer threatening to sue me for defamation and I didn't know what to do. I had to seek my own legal advice because I didn't know what would happen after that. It was just a letter to scare me. You know, trying to make me disappear, it didn't really work, indignant, she decided to sue her doctors at the cosmos clinic, I just thought I'm not going to be like that, it's not fair, I have no, there is no reason why I deserve to live with what he has given me It outrages me that they think I'm just another person who can just sweep it under the rug and forget about the legal action that is ongoing, and as each week drags on, Rebecca's trauma continues.

I still have pain today I have pain 24 7. what kind of pain is my abdomen it is a continuous numbness and I feel like there are pins all the time pricking me all over my abdomen occasionally I get a burning sensation Feeling like it has destroyed my life yes It wasn't for my family, I would be homeless. Sorry, take a minute. I think I need it. I physically can't work full time. It's too tiring. And my salary literally only covers what is normal. I know my day to day expenses it doesn't cover any of my house bills it doesn't cover any of my rent that's how bad it is it's all smoke and mirrors it's all an illusion and as a consumer you can't just tell yourself I have no idea what's real and what social networks are not, they are the façade of the cosmetic surgery industry and what we are discovering is that doctors who perform cosmetic surgery actually make patients the mannequins in the showcase and the objective is to get more people in those storefronts to advertise more services and get more patients in the door Madison Johnston and Michael Fraser were so concerned about the way the cosmetic surgery industry manipulates patients that it's like a dangerous procedure and laughs at it that they started crawl social media content Because there is so much content that surgeons post, we had to find a way to analyze all that data and see what kind of problems existed, for example, with posts expiring, where they are putting posts older bold in the content that expires, but also To be able to observe the patterns of a particular group of doctors, for example, over a period of one month and see what kind of behavior occurs on a day-to-day basis, they have developed software to capture everything what is posted on the Instagram and tick-tock accounts of Australia's leading cosmetic surgeons, tens of thousands of videos and photographs dating back more than eight years.

I think it's something that regulators should use or something similar because it will give them oversight in case the public or a member of the public complains. about their surgery or the conduct of a doctor, they can go back and see everything that happened within a period of time, including content that expires. Not only is it misleading, in many cases the content posted by cosmetic surgeons breaks the rules and fails to inform patients about the risks. what we're seeing is multiple violations every two days, essentially, you know things like inaccurate before and after photos using testimonials that go against national law.

There's this big issue that the surgery is for cosmetic reasons, it's just not a big deal, it's almost in and out. Giving you the impression that it is the same day, which is obviously not the case, the patients were huddled or hidden in their beds while visions of sports-illustrated hobos danced in their heads, a wink of their eye and a turn of their head. They soon let me know I had nothing to fear, I think social media makes it seem so glamorous, that it seems like you are going to go out like a Kardashian and you are not, you are in a lot of pain, you are bleeding everywhere for days and you are a disaster and yes, there may be some people who found it good to look cool and good.

I'm glad, but unfortunately that's not for everyone. Why do you think it's so difficult to find stories like yours on social media? They're so scared because these people are so powerful, they have so much money, they have so many resources, yeah, just a little bit in 2018, social media influencer Rosie Terry signed up with cosmos to promote her Brazilian butt lift surgery. Hey guys, I'm live. with cosmos clinic today at 12 it's a little late but I'm excited, I promoted them. I think we collaborated on the live and I was meant to get fillers or botox, but what happened was my surgeries came first and they were so bad.

I never went back for fillers or botox that would turn me into a hypocrite from influencer to patient. Rosie underwent a Brazilian butt lift at cosmos in September 2018. Dissatisfied with the results, she posted a one-star review on Google. Hey guys, you're probably like. Why are you posting about them all of a sudden? She then shared her experience with her followers on her Instagram. I promoted for them. They offered me free refills for the promotion. I said I will never let you touch me again after what you did to my body on the 23rd year old girl days after publication, cosmos founder dr. joseph ajaka, filed a defamation lawsuit in federal court, but that only made Rosie more determined, so what made you fight the legal threats?

I think I just got to the point: what can they do? Take me away, what can you do to me? I just wasn't ready to let them get away with it. Still, the legal claim has been withdrawn, but Rosie refuses to remain silent. I feel like the more I or someone else talks, it's going to happen. It will bring a lot more awareness and people will talk a lot more because it's not fair as more and more brave patients are speaking out, the holes in our healthcare system are evident, it's worse than the wild west, in my opinion that's something We should consider criminalizing away from the city, among its horses.

Kathy Hubble feels like she can finally relax, if only for a moment. Now I have moved to the country where life is much less stressful. I have to be in a low-stress environment. where I can be with my animals and my horses and my beautiful boy partner after cosmetic surgery with dr. ryan wells and his then boss the scandal was played by dr. Daniel Lanza She was left with lifelong scars Now I have chronic pain in my abdomen and it's like thousands of red ants that bite under the skin Dr. Wells tried to distance himself from Daniel Lanza and in November of last year he and his nurses They posed for photos while scratching Lansa's name off the clinic window.

Last month, the business was renamed but for patients like Kathy. hubble this is nothing more than clever marketing how important is it to you to talk about dr. Wells? The doctor. wells has distanced himself from dr. spear and yet he is probably the worst culprit for the procedure they did on me and still is. practicing with this person is outrageous, it must be stopped, just like the dr.wells cosmos clinics. The surgery industry is almost non-existent, it is just full of holes and for patients, they are not safe, so who is going to protect you? Nobody, basically, is the buyer, be careful, you are alone.

Did you do this procedure within a registered healthcare facility? Margaret Foe is a lawyer and expert on Australia's complex healthcare system. In my opinion, one of the areas that needs more scrutiny and attention is this practice of paying influencers or giving them free cosmetic surgery to promote that surgery because they are influencers to In my opinion, that is something that should be, we should consider the possibility of criminalizing it in January of this year. Dr. Reza's details disappeared from the Cosmos website. Welcome to the game of the week and his social media appeared to have been professionally scrubbed from the internet.

Kisha Omoa and other patients. They never told me where he had gone or why they basically didn't tell me much because I assume they can't but I'm definitely not the only person this has happened to and I'm definitely not going to be the last time Dr. Reza operated on Keisha was a disaster, so we're doing great. Everything is really good. We have some liquid here. Last December, she turned to leading plastic surgeon Professor Mark Ashton to fix her scarred body. and today you are meeting him for a checkup after a revision surgery to remove the painful scar tissue and when we looked and found out where that scar tissue was, what we found is that, as you can see here, just a dense block, a very thick scar tissue. is the amount of scar tissue removed from kiesha's abdomen caused by the liposuction performed by dr. pray, so it's almost palm-sized, about the size of the palm of your hand.

I've never seen it before. The hospital's medical report says that Kesha's liver. he was lacerated several times from kisha liposuction, what happened was he went too deep because he didn't know where the cannula was placed, he didn't know it was too deep and he started liposuctioning the quiche liver. It's worse than the wild west, the wild west at least you. I knew you were going to enter a dangerous environment. Professor Ashton says that after seeing Kisha in December last year he had a mandatory obligation to report Dr Reza to the national health regulator. Early last month, he banned Dr.

Reza from performing all cosmetic surgery, but allowed him to work as a family doctor, but that's not enough for dr. foe, if the conditions of dr. reza are not appropriate, which is appropriate, I think suspending his registration maybe not indefinitely, but suspending his registration, I don't see that they really understand the magnitude of what they are dealing with we tracked down dr. pray to this simple general practice clinic on the outskirts of melbourne until conditions were placed on it the clinic offered cosmetic appointments with the now fallen doctor we approached cosmos founder dr joseph ajaka to ask him what to comment on in the days before this story broke originally aired in may, however, dr.

Ajaka rushed to court to stop the Abigail Boyet program. was an action that outraged new south wales MP abigail boyd last friday may 13 new south wales supreme court has issued an extraordinary order granting Double Bay cosmetic surgeon Dr Joseph Ajaka of Cosmos Clinics, access to pre-release draft copies of an upcoming 60 Minutes episode. This court order is unprecedented around the same time Cosmos was busy removing over 100 posts from its social media. media accounts, but we have them, all the videos of Batman and dancing in the operating room are gone, as is Putin's horror show. Other more daring posts have also been removed from their accounts.

Trick or Treating. Our gorgeous cosmos client is definitely looking. as a gift as is the video of dr. ajaka performing liposuction while he looks at the camera instead of the patient who is this joseph ajaka who has the means andthe incentives to so aggressively attack one of the pillars of our democracy in defense of your private life. financial and reputational interests what guilty conscience has now brought about this defensive posture ajaka may have a lot to lose if he cannot control what is said about him but we all have a lot more to lose if journalists are prevented from speaking truth to power hello I'm Tara Brown, thanks for watching 60 Minutes Australia.

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