The glitz and the gore: behind the scenes of a celebrity cosmetic surgeon’s ‘abattoir’ practice | adele_ferguson jttozer
investigation which show what really happens behind the closed doors of leading cosmetic surgeon Wells, an associate of controversial celebrity cosmetic surgeon Daniel Lanzer until he publicly distanced himself after a media expose in October last year.
But behind the scenes, the spin was different. “I think [the media coverage] was weak. Danny [Lanzer] might cop some shit but feel we didn’t even get a show up here. It’ll all be okay,” he told his nurses. They say they both received a phone call from Wells after they resigned, asking them to keep quiet about what they had seen.
Under the current law, anyone with an ordinary medical degree and little surgical training can call themselves a cosmetic surgeon, even though they aren’t registered specialist surgeons with more than six years of postgraduate surgical training.Wells joined Lanzer clinics in 2018, after working for another cosmetic surgeon. He graduated with a medical degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2013.
It was cramped and according to Nixon, who would also fly in and fly out on a regular basis from Melbourne, it wasn’t fit for purpose. Nixon said the Sydney clinic, fly-in fly-out facility for Wells and other doctors, was similar in terms of poor hygiene. According to Dr Margaret Faux, who has spent 40 years working and researching the health system, the procedure shown in the video was a partial breast reduction. She says given it was performed in the Spring Hills clinic, which was not a day hospital, it was potentially illegal.
Leaked internal chats between Wells and his nurses give an insight into the veracity of before and after surgery photos posted on Instagram. Internal videos paint a picture of a practice that has little respect for compliance and procedures - and patients. Nurses writing scripts, including in September 2020, when Wells reminds the nurses that one of them had written a script for a patient with the wrong dosage and tells them of the correct dosage: “Answer is it only comes in 200 or 100mg. Someone wrote 500mg the other day as well. Always ask me if not 100% on doses team.”
Wells’ lawyer responded to the allegations, saying he “doesn’t hold any concerns with the standard of hygiene and safety practices at his clinics.” The lawyer said Wells “does not provide nurses with unsigned blank scripts nor does he pre-sign scripts.” He said Wells performs liposuction “in accordance with industry standards.
Hubble ended up in Gosford Hospital for almost a week after developing a serious infection, cellulitis, shortly after her second procedure in November 2018.She says the clinic in Sydney was filthy and while she was in hospital recovering, Lanzer tried to pull her out and treat her in the Sydney clinic, saying he was better equipped to deal with the issue. “Dr Wells actually sent me a text message saying he would come and help me down to the clinic,” she recalls. “Back to the dirty environment.
“I am now deformed. It affects my whole life. It affects my relationship, it affects everything,” she says.Other patients have joined a class action being run by Maddens Lawyers for any patients of Lanzer, Wells, Aronov, Darbyshire and Fallahi, alleging they engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct. It also alleges that cosmetic surgeries were not undertaken with an appropriate level of care and skill.
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