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Introducing CMAC: Your partner in patient safety

16 October 2025 | charity, aesthetics, medico-legal, litigation, guidelines

The Complications in Medical Aesthetics Collaborative (CMAC) is a membership organisation with over 1000 members from over 27 countries worldwide. We have recently achieved Charitable Status. Founded in 2020 to establish international collaboration in the interests of providing quality education...

Gross negligence manslaughter in healthcare: The medico-legal dilemma

13 October 2025 | | medico-legal, hypoxia, blog, Andrew Burd, Vanessa Kwan

Three years ago, I concluded a multi-part blog series looking at a case of gross negligence manslaughter in Hong Kong. The specific case related to a doctor who had operated on a patient who tragically died some 40 minutes after...

Back to the blog: Part II

2 August 2024 | plastic surgery, Cosmetic surgery, breast surgery, Breast implants, medico-legal, Australia

PART II: Key players in the turf war between the board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeons and the 'non-accredited' cosmetic surgeons.

Back to the blog

16 July 2024 | | plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery, breast surgery, Breast implants, medico-legal, Australia

PART I: Degraded professionalism among leading figures in Australian plastic and reconstructive surgery.