In Victoria, the Department of Health gives registered day procedure hospitals such as Dr Lanzer's six to eight weeks' warning of an audit. State health departments are in charge of checking whether cosmetic surgery clinics are complying with regulations. Nurses told to take home human fat in shopping bags before audit "There is no sterility, there is no concept of sterility, and how this is allowed to occur, is … is bewildering."ĭr Briggs told Four Corners that he had "never seen anything like this. Professor Ashton, who also watched the footage, described it as "frankly, dangerous". It was pretty disgusting," Mr Nixon says. "I can recall in one instance where the fat had fallen down and got lodged in the floorboards, and there were a lot of ants eating up all the fat. Storeroom inside Dr Daniel Lanzer's clinic in Sydney. "I had done stuff that has gone against my own registration, against my own competencies," Ms Hewish told Four Corners. Registered nurses Lauren Hewish and Justin Nixon feel compelled to speak out about working at Dr Lanzer's clinics.
Plastic surgeons have been campaigning for greater regulation of cosmetic surgery for decades. Under current laws, anyone with a basic medical degree can call themselves a cosmetic surgeon. "That's surgery 101, that you learn in the first week of training," he says. "This is incredibly dangerous." "Not actually watching where that cannula is, is dangerous," Dr Briggs says. Specialist plastic surgeon Patrick Briggs says one of the risks of liposuction is the possibility of penetrating an organ, or the aorta, with the cannula. Dr Daniel Lanzer records a video message for staff while performing liposuction.
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