My botched HK$80,000 nose job was done by doctor with no medical licence, Hong Kong woman says
- Surgeon was stripped of licence for 15 months in 2011 on professional misconduct charges, but victim alleges he operated on her just last year and left her disfigured
A Hong Kong woman who underwent a nose job costing more than HK$80,000 (US$10,200) at a local beauty clinic says the procedure was carried out by a man without a medical licence and left her face swollen and asymmetrical more than a year on.
The victim, who wished to be identified only by the pseudonym Cherry, on Sunday said she had only learned of the man’s identity when she confronted staff at the clinic in August – 15 months after the botched operation took place.
She then approached the city’s Medical Council and was told the former doctor had his medical licence suspended in 2011 for 15 months.
The council’s general register of doctors currently does not list the man as a medical practitioner in Hong Kong.
The surgery took place at the Jordan branch of a major beauty salon chain. Cherry said she had been told by a beauty consultant that the procedure would be done by a registered doctor.
“After I woke up from the anaesthesia, this man appeared and said: ‘I did the procedure for you. Was it done well?’ I’m 100 per cent sure the surgery was performed by him,” she said.