Surgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark Side

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 ex...

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....

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...

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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 ofte...

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...

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...

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 imp...

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 thousa...

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, w...

Exciting News! This one-of-a-kind podcast on the dark side of the cosmetic surgery and injectables industry goes live in 3 days. There are 5 expert guests in Part 1 of Season 1. We hope you enjoy this trailer of Surgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark Side. Ensure you don't miss this important podcast. Remember to follow/subscribe to our podcast on Spotify, Apple, or YouTube to access all of our co...

Trailer: Episode 1 of Surgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark Side goes live at 5AM AEDT, Monday 6 November 2023. This is the podcast the industry doesn't want you to hear and the one everyone considering procedures, or who have had procedures, should listen to. Be sure to subscribe/follow our podcast on Spotify, Apple, or YouTube so you don't miss a thing. Please share with anyone you think wi...

Surgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark Side sits down with nurse whistleblower Justin Nixon to explore the dark side of cosmetic surgery in Australia. Full episode coming 20 November 2023.

Coming this year. Season One will explore the dark side of the cosmetic and aesthetic plastic surgery industry in Australia.