Please don't think I am fixated on breasts. Its the implants I am talking about. And I am not fixated on those, either!
Where is the illustrious General Medical Council or the army of ambulance-chasing lawyers, in all of this?
Surely the plastic surgeons who fitted (installed?) these implants have a duty of care to their patients? Following on from this, if they abdicate this responsibility then wouldn't that put them in breach of medical ethics? (Or for plastic surgeons, is ethics a place you path thru on the way to thuffolk? -sorry, couldn't resist)
Why isn't the GMC, jumping up and threatening all of these surgeons with disciplinary hearings which could lead to a loss of license to practice? And doing so as a matter of urgency?
After all, the GMC are always quick to get in front of the media when someone in Government suggests that a GP or a precious consultant should maybe be paid a little less or work a little more (weekends, maybe?). GPs earn more than £60,000 a year with very many earning more than £100,000 a year. Who knows what these plastic surgeons are earning.
Maybe this is an area where the government should impose regulation. Patently, self-regulation isn't working!
Where too, are all those ambulance chasers? Do they maybe share a 'lodge' with their professional colleagues and don't want to upset them? Why are they not advertising on daytime TV?
Maybe it is all because the biased-BBC and ITV seem to have decided that the clearing up of this problem is the responsibility of the taxpayer funded NHS?
All I see on the TV slots about this, is a government spokesperson and then a private plastic surgery patient. The latter are NEVER challenged on why I should put my hand in my pocket because their vanity operation has the potential to go wrong. Why should funding be diverted from the care of the elderly or cancer patients (the list goes on) to remove and then replace (because the latter is also demanded) something that these individuals undertook themselves, for their own selfish benefit?
Corporate responsibility in the shape of some (not all) of the plastic surgeons, seems to have fled the scene.
Where is the personal responsibility in this?
If I buy anything, from a private supplier, let's say a car, the contract is between me and the company. The UK government isn't in the picture (and really that's the way I want it). If the brakes are faulty or the gearbox doesn't function I go back to the car dealer or maybe the manufacturer. I don't go to HM Government or the Ministry of Transport!
What have we come to?
Where is the illustrious General Medical Council or the army of ambulance-chasing lawyers, in all of this?
Surely the plastic surgeons who fitted (installed?) these implants have a duty of care to their patients? Following on from this, if they abdicate this responsibility then wouldn't that put them in breach of medical ethics? (Or for plastic surgeons, is ethics a place you path thru on the way to thuffolk? -sorry, couldn't resist)
Why isn't the GMC, jumping up and threatening all of these surgeons with disciplinary hearings which could lead to a loss of license to practice? And doing so as a matter of urgency?
After all, the GMC are always quick to get in front of the media when someone in Government suggests that a GP or a precious consultant should maybe be paid a little less or work a little more (weekends, maybe?). GPs earn more than £60,000 a year with very many earning more than £100,000 a year. Who knows what these plastic surgeons are earning.
Maybe this is an area where the government should impose regulation. Patently, self-regulation isn't working!
Where too, are all those ambulance chasers? Do they maybe share a 'lodge' with their professional colleagues and don't want to upset them? Why are they not advertising on daytime TV?
Maybe it is all because the biased-BBC and ITV seem to have decided that the clearing up of this problem is the responsibility of the taxpayer funded NHS?
All I see on the TV slots about this, is a government spokesperson and then a private plastic surgery patient. The latter are NEVER challenged on why I should put my hand in my pocket because their vanity operation has the potential to go wrong. Why should funding be diverted from the care of the elderly or cancer patients (the list goes on) to remove and then replace (because the latter is also demanded) something that these individuals undertook themselves, for their own selfish benefit?
Corporate responsibility in the shape of some (not all) of the plastic surgeons, seems to have fled the scene.
Where is the personal responsibility in this?
If I buy anything, from a private supplier, let's say a car, the contract is between me and the company. The UK government isn't in the picture (and really that's the way I want it). If the brakes are faulty or the gearbox doesn't function I go back to the car dealer or maybe the manufacturer. I don't go to HM Government or the Ministry of Transport!
What have we come to?
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