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Gross Negligence Manslaughter in Healthcare: The medico-legal dilemma (part 1)
On the 8 December 2020, Justice Judianna Barnes sentenced Dr Mak Wan-ling to three and a half years in prison. The charge for which she was found guilty was gross negligence manslaughter (GNM). She had injected a contaminated blood sample into a patient and the patient had died. The conviction was fundamentally flawed.
Retrobulbar hyaluronidase
Blindness following filler injections is a devastating complication for the patient and the practitioner.
Letter from Hong Kong (17 December 2020)
This will be the last ‘Letter from Hong Kong’. I began back in April with a simple message, wear masks.
The injectable buttock procedure
Gluteal contouring has become an extremely popular procedure led by celebrity images and patient requests.
Letter from Hong Kong (3 November 2020)
It is seven months since I wrote the first ‘Letter from Hong Kong’. The message then was simple: “Fear is okay, panic is not and wear masks”. It is one month since I wrote the last letter and that message? “Life goes on and will go on no matter what.”
Letter from Hong Kong (1 October 2020)
Today is National Day in Hong Kong. A celebration of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on 1 October 1949.
COVID-19 Isolation Syndrome
James Frame looks at the psychological effects of lockdown on plastis surgery patients.
The scandal of NHS contracts with the independent healthcare sector
Since March 2020 it was sensible medical practice to consider making all possible beds in the NHS available to potentially admit ill patients with COVID-19. The expected admission rate was supposed to risk overwhelming the NHS, so independent sector facilities apparently volunteered and were then contracted to the NHS as priority, with full remuneration for their losses, and all private practitioners were effectively frozen out from seeing, admitting and operating on their own self pay patients.
Letter from Hong Kong (17 August 2020)
So much can change in just a few weeks. In Hong Kong after three weeks with no new cases we started to see a third wave in mid-July. More and more cases with no obvious source.
Dalvi Humzah nominated for BMA Private Practice Committee
Co-editor of The PMFA Journal, Dalvi Humzah, has been nominated to join the BMA Private Practice Committee.
Letter from Hong Kong (9 July 2020)
“I see hope in the stars. Take time to look at them.”
Letter from Hong Kong (2 July 2020)
There is an expression about “living through history”. I am not quite sure what it means but I have the inclination that it conveys a sense of being there, of being alive, when the world changes. Dramatically, irrevocably. We have a before, and we have an after, and we are now in the period of transition.
