Doctor banned from cosmetic surgery after botched procedures

A Gold Coast doctor has been barred from any cosmetic surgery after his procedures left some patients in pain and requiring corrective surgery.

A Gold Coast doctor has been barred from performing any cosmetic, breast or vaginal surgery, after being reprimanded for professional misconduct over botched procedures.

A female patient was left in considerable pain after Magdi Gindi incorrectly inserted two sutures, including one into her clitoral area, a tribunal said.

After Dr Gindi performed a breast lift procedure on another woman, she was left with a nipple that was too high, Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal heard.

And the Runaway Bay GP paid compensation to a male body builder, who suffered burns and a significant scar after laser resurfacing by Dr Gindi in 2012.

The man had wanted a cosmetic procedure to tighten the skin around his eyes, but Dr Gindi later acknowledged he had set the DEKA SmartXide laser machine on too high a setting.

Dr Gindi, who has specialist registration as a GP, also accepted that the machine should not be used near eyes, the tribunal heard.

After Dr Gindi performed a labiaplasty that left a woman bleeding and in pain, she returned to his clinic and he found some of her sutures had come away.

He inserted two new sutures and in text exchanges with the patient over following days he inappropriately said: “Good that you don’t have sore tongue anymore! Lol.”

“The reference to the ‘sore tongue’ was a reference to (the patient’s) labia minora,” the tribunal said.

Five days after he inserted the new sutures the woman told Dr Gindi that the area was leaking blood and she couldn’t walk properly because it was painful.

Two days after Dr Gindi prescribed antibiotics and a painkiller, she was taken to hospital by ambulance and underwent emergency surgery, the tribunal heard.

An obstetrician and gynaecologist reported that Dr Gindi had inserted a suture into the woman’s clitoral area, the other suture had blocked the urethra and she had a large haematoma.

After Dr Gindi performed a breast lift procedure on another woman in his own procedure room in 2011 he performed revision surgery, at the woman’s request.

She had complained of a difference in size between her left and right breast areolae.

A plastic and reconstructive surgeon who later performed a total revision of scarring concluded the woman’s nipple was too high and it was impossible to lower it.

Dr Gindi’s “reckless’’ conduct of the major cosmetic procedure in his own rooms amounted to professional misconduct, a tribunal member said.

Another woman had two surgical corrective procedures on her legs, after a “poor outcome’’ from a procedure Dr Gindi performed with a Deka Smartlipo Laser Lipolysis machine in 2013.

Six months after Dr Gindi’s procedure the woman had a divot as long as a biro, two centimetres deep and as wide as four fingers on her left leg, discolouration and purple bruise-coloured skin, the tribunal heard.

Even after corrective procedures by another doctor the woman had indentations in her legs and the skin remained purplish. Dr Gindi gave the woman a refund.

Dr Gindi, 59, who obtained a Bachelor of Medicine in Romania in 1985 and was registered as a medical practitioner in Australia in 1996, has owned and practised at Bayview Clinic at Runaway Bay since 2007.

He also has been banned from using the Deka Smartlipo and Deka SmartXide machines.