Doctors warn of McSurgery in quick fix operations boom
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Surgeons spoke out in response to news that a New Zealand cosmetic surgery company is offering doctors a franchise after just two days' training at a hotel in Manchester.
The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) said that high-pressure sales techniques and cowboy operators were fuelling a booming market in Botox, face peels and laser treatment, some of which can result in poor treatments, injuries or, in extreme cases, death.
Paul Stapleton, of the Mapperley Park Clinic in Nottingham, said: It's a McDonald's franchise approach to cosmetic surgery. It's a continuation of alarming developments in the field, which hasn't been helped by the Government's U-turn on plans to regulate cosmetic surgery.
The franchise deal was offered to ordinary GPs who had paid 2,000 a head to a New Zealand company called Appearance Medicine for the training weekend at the Marriott Hotel in Manchester. After practising Botox injections on volunteer hotel staff the GPs were offered equipment to start a practice in exchange for 35,000 and 10 per cent of future profits.
Dr Maurice Mann, a GP in Chesterfield, attended the course out of curiosity because he was inundated with patients wanting non-invasive procedures or help after procedures abroad had gone wrong.
There were 19 doctors and one dentist on the course, he said. It was a wide-ranging course. Some of it was very good. But what I found a little surprising was that they said for 35,000 they would give us basic kit and a franchise. It's an unregulated market.
They're not doing anything wrong and have been doing it for 20-odd years. What is worrying is people going on these courses and just getting started.
This is something there is terrific demand for. If people can't get it from a reputable source they will go to a disreputable one.
Appearance Medicine did not respond to requests for comment.
A quarter of all complaints to the Healthcare Commission are about low-level cosmetic surgery procedures such as Botox and face peels.
'I was filming a scene when my whole face froze from Botox'
Sarah Manners, the star of the BBC series 'Casualty', had Botox treatment four years ago. She had feared that her looks were not perfect enough - but the result nearly ruined her career. Her face froze while she was filming an airline drama in which she played a glamorous air hostess and an entire scene was lost. It taught me a lesson. You can't afford to have Botox when you're an actor. It could lose you work.
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