BBC Breakfast 14 January 2012, Government takes care of 5% of the problem.
Sunday, 15 January 2012
I said on the Breakfast Show that I will treat my own PIP patients at no charge and secure implants for them, also at no charge. I am doing this because I want to see their medical problems resolved. I believe in removal and replacement as the only viable option. I think that the MHRA should have recognised their responsibility in this area and also that the liability insurance covering the auditors of the failed PIP as well as the PIP Insurers should be responsible. However, since the government is leaving a solution to the private sector and leaving women in limbo, I choose not do the same. Firing off criticisms by some professional organisations which denigrate other MD's, is, in my opinion, unprofessional. ASPS and ASAPS have long-standing collegial and constructive relationaships with other Specialty organisations involved in the Aesthetic Surgery field. There are common standards and interests. I don't like the term cowboys. Some of those 'cowboys' (who incidentally were the good guys in the old John Wayne movies), are surgeons of many years experience.
Posted byLaurence Kirwan at 05:35
Labels: ASAPS, cowboys and aliens. PIP implants
