Ex-doctor banned from cosmetic surgery after new probe
A former beauty doctor has been permanently banned from carrying out or assisting with cosmetic surgery after claims she aided another doctor with a procedure, despite being been barred from practising.
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A former high-end beauty doctor has been hit with new bans a year after she was barred from performing any procedures.
Cynthia Weinstein has been permanently banned from “undertaking or assisting” with cosmetic surgery after fresh complaints about her work were investigated by the Health Complaints Commissioner (HCC).
Ms Weinstein, who owns CDC Clinics in Armadale, has not held a cosmetic licence for ten years, but is understood to have aided another doctor with a procedure which sparked the investigation.
But Ms Weinstein rejected claims she acted wrongly, stating the patient consented and that she only helped with “a few minor things”.
The HCC this month found Ms Weinstein had breached the code of conduct for general health services in Victoria and formally issued her with a prohibition order on May 12.
Ms Weinstein cannot “direct delivery of any surgical or medical procedure that involves cutting or piercing the skin, cutting under the skin or cauterising”. CDC Clinics was forbidden from “directing, instructing, allowing or otherwise enabling” Ms Weinstein to undertake or help in any medical or surgical procedures.
Ms Weinstein said she was asked to help with a skin cancer removal in 2018.
“I said to the doctor if the patient consents and is happy with it — and just let them know that I am not registered at the present time — then I’m OK with it,” she said.
“Everything went completely smoothly. The result was more than very good. There was no breach, there was no serious risk to the patient and there was really no basis on which to make the orders.”
Ms Weinstein, who has been plagued by complaints since the early 2000s, said she will appeal to VCAT and the Supreme Court.
Health Complaints Commissioner Karen Cusack said she only made prohibition orders “in cases such as Ms Weinstein and CDC, where I am satisfied that it is necessary to avoid a serious risk to the health, safety or welfare of the public”.
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