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Gross Negligence Manslaughter in Healthcare: The medico-legal dilemma (part 5) - Who is the Judge?
I wonder what Vanessa is thinking right now. If she can even think. A torrent of images, regrets, what ifs. The onslaught must be so great, no wonder the normal response is for the mind and the body to shut down? Depression.
Hello and goodbye: changes to The PMFA Journal Editorial Board
The PMFA Journal team are delighted to welcome three new Specialist Advisors to our Editorial Board, each of whom will broaden our expertise and offer new perspectives to the Journal.
Gross Negligence Manslaughter in Healthcare: The medico-legal dilemma (part 4)
I want to return to the case of Dr Mak, who was, from the available evidence, caught up in a miscarriage of justice that arose because of a lack of effective interprofessional communication in the legal process.
Gross Negligence Manslaughter in Healthcare: The medico-legal dilemma (part 3)
14 June 2021 is the day in the Chinese calendar to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. These local holidays are a reminder of the deep cultural heritage enjoyed by the Chinese people.
Gross Negligence Manslaughter in Healthcare: The medico-legal dilemma (part 2)
In Volume 1, Issue 1 of this journal I wrote an article entitled: ‘From PIP to DC-CIK to the Sorcerer’s Apprentice: a medico-political minefield’. Little did I know or anticipate what a mess this was going to become: a medico-legal mess with ignorant lawyers and arrogant doctors demonstrating how stupidity and rapacious hypocrisy can twist and distort reality for the purposes of extracting a bizarre social revenge with little sense of justice.
Gross Negligence Manslaughter in Healthcare: The medico-legal dilemma (part 1)
On the 8 December 2020, Justice Judianna Barnes sentenced Dr Mak Wan-ling to three and a half years in prison. The charge for which she was found guilty was gross negligence manslaughter (GNM). She had injected a contaminated blood sample into a patient and the patient had died. The conviction was fundamentally flawed.
Retrobulbar hyaluronidase
Blindness following filler injections is a devastating complication for the patient and the practitioner.
Letter from Hong Kong (17 December 2020)
This will be the last ‘Letter from Hong Kong’. I began back in April with a simple message, wear masks.
The injectable buttock procedure
Gluteal contouring has become an extremely popular procedure led by celebrity images and patient requests.
Letter from Hong Kong (3 November 2020)
It is seven months since I wrote the first ‘Letter from Hong Kong’. The message then was simple: “Fear is okay, panic is not and wear masks”. It is one month since I wrote the last letter and that message? “Life goes on and will go on no matter what.”
Letter from Hong Kong (1 October 2020)
Today is National Day in Hong Kong. A celebration of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on 1 October 1949.
COVID-19 Isolation Syndrome
James Frame looks at the psychological effects of lockdown on plastis surgery patients.
