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The Wellness Verdict with Whitney Di BonaOperation Redress And The Fight For Ethical Cosmetic Surgery AdvertisingIn today's episode, we're joined by special guests Maddison Johnstone and Michael Fraser, hosts of "Surgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark Side" and the driving forces behind Operation Redress. They're here to shed light on the regulatory landscape of cosmetic surgery advertising in Australia. Maddison and Michael will share their journey of disrupting unethical advertising and advocating for new, global standards.Join us as we expose the glamorized, yet perilous practices on social media and discuss the changes needed to protect patients and ensure ethical medical practices. Get ready for an eye-opening conversation!Co...2024-07-2554 min
Surgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark SideE9 - Pathologising UglinessTreating 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 explore, and we touch on bullying, abnormal vs normal, “fixing” our healthy bodies, shifting beauty standards, trends, and Asian features being pathologised.
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Surgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark SideE8 - Suing Your SurgeonAustralian 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.
What kind of money can you get from suing your surgeon? What evidence do you need? Is it difficult to meet the threshold to sue your surgeon? These questions are answered in...2024-02-041h 04
Surgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark SideE7 - Psychology of Beauty ContentBody 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 their appearance?
We discuss her research which covers social media and beauty content, but also how beauty content on social media influences people’s decision to get cosmetic surg...2024-01-281h 22
Surgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark SideWe're taking a short holiday breakFollow us on Instagram and Tiktok @operation.redress to stay up to date on the release of our next episode.
Catch up on past episodes in the mean time.2023-12-1700 min
Surgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark SideE6 - Medicare: Need vs WantWhat 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 often incorrectly charged to Medicare, including pre-operative pathology. Learn why Medicare is not supposed to be accessed by cosmetic surgery patients.
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Surgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark SideE5 - Okay, or Not OkayOur 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 conversation.
The number to AHPRA’s Cosmetic Surgery Hotline is 1300 361 041.
You can find more information about cosmetic surgery complaints, notifications, guidelines and more on AHPRA’s website using the link below.
https://www.ahpra.gov.au/Resources/Cosmetic-surgery-hub.aspx
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Surgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark SideE4 - Implant, Explant: Informed Educated ConsentWith 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 discuss several aspects of breast implants, and what it is important for patients to know before going under the knife.
If you know someone who has breast implants, or is considering getting them, this is t...2023-11-261h 44
Surgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark SideE3 - See Something, Say SomethingIn 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 important aspects of the whistleblowing in the cosmetic surgery industry and what has gone wrong over the years. This episode is an important and unique listen for those within healthcare, those s...2023-11-1956 minSurgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark SideE2 - Risk Free AdvertisingThe 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 thousands of social media posts, they became aware of concerning conduct being standardised in the aesthetic plastic surgery industry. They discuss things like glamour shoots, the problem with lifestyle images, terms like ‘mummy makeover’, and the minimisation of the risks.
2023-11-121h 05Surgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark SideE1 - Life-Changing ProceduresMichael 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, with season one on Australia. Get to know the people behind the podcast and understand their experience as consumer and worker advocates with Operation Redress in exposing corporate wrongdoing, worker exploitation, consumer rip-offs, and eventually the cosmetic surgery industry.
...2023-11-0536 minSurgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark SideTrailer - Surgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark Side podcast - Coming 6 NovExciting 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 content. We go live on 6 November 2023.
*Not medical, legal, or financial advice.2023-11-0301 minSurgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark SideTrailer: E1 - Life-Changing ProceduresTrailer: 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.
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*Not medical, legal, or financial advice.2023-10-2700 minSurgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark SideTrailer: E3 - See Something, Say SomethingSurgery 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 2023.2023-10-2200 min
Get JaschedEp 115 - The dark side of cosmetic surgery with Maddison JohnstoneSend us a textHave you ever considered how cosmetic procedures are communicated in their advertising, and what impact that has on the individual as well as societal wellbeing?This week's episode has consumer advocate Maddison Johnstone joining me, sharing about her work to ensure potential (and actual) patients of cosmetic surgery are better informed in their decision-making.Maddison covers: the risks of elective cosmetic surgery that have often been left out of the conversations doctors have with their potential patientswhy communication in these procedures and advertising is importantsome pretty scary statistics ar...2023-08-2842 minSurgery Secrets: Beauty's Dark SideComing SoonComing this year. Season One will explore the dark side of the cosmetic and aesthetic plastic surgery industry in Australia.2023-08-2600 min
SME TV PodcastsHiked Up Road Toll Charges / Wage Theft / ESG Governance #Business #SMETVNews #FriendOrFoeAfter you watch this episode of #SME TV News you might want to go and check your Road Toll Statement - you could have unidentified charges! Wage Theft is still an ongoing problem and ESG - Environmental Social Governance factors show what a business is really made of.
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If you think there are wrongs to make right, that there are people or companies who do the wrong thing for the wr...2020-10-1621 min