Treating differences in looks as a deformity or disease which needs to be fixed or cured is a common marketing tactic used by the cosmetic surgery and injectables industry. Philosopher and physician Dr Yves Saint James Aquino joins us to discuss the concept of pathologising ugliness, and h...

Australian medical negligence lawyer Rosy Listing discusses suing your surgeon, doctor, or injector. This contains valuable information that can help guide you even before your first consult. Rosy talks about empowering yourself with information, and should things go wrong with your cosmet...

Body image researcher Dr Veya Seekis joined us for a deep discussion on how social media is influencing people of all ages to get cosmetic surgery or injectables. This episode is an important listen for everyone, especially parents of young children who are using social media. Did you kno...

Cosmetic surgery patients often only learn about the complex complaints system in Australia the hard way: when things have already gone wrong. This episode we talk to Dr Margaret Faux about making a complaint, regulation, and also discuss Medicare's relationship with cosmetic surgery. Dr ...

Our guest this week is AHPRA National Director (CSEU) Jason McHeyzer. We discuss cosmetic surgery regulation and enforcement, whistleblowing, advertising rules, making a complaint about your surgeon, mandatory practitioner reporting obligations, influencers, and more. This episode is designed to ...

With the glamourised and sexualised marketing of breast implants, you would be forgiven for thinking they were a simple, risk-free, and relatively painless procedure. This episode, we speak to Professor Anand Deva, who has conducted studies on breast implants. We talk about SSBI (Systemic ...

In an Australian exclusive, we bring you unheard insights from the nurse whistleblower who first spoke up about the Dr Lanzer clinics. From influencers to industry conduct to regulator contact, this episode covers the broad experience of nurse Justin Nixon. What compelled him to blow the w...

The cosmetic surgery industry is currently in a state of reform in Australia. What has been particularly shocking is the often excessive and manipulative advertising which glamourises, sexualises, or normalises cosmetic surgery. This episode is with Maddison Johnstone and Michael Fraser, w...

Michael Fraser and Maddison Johnstone introduce Surgery Secrets: Beauty’s Dark Side, the podcast. Entirely focused on researching corporate misconduct, franchising, transport, wage theft, due diligence and more, Michael and Maddison’s own lives were changed when they received a call late one nigh...

Media Release New Cosmetic Surgery Podcast Launching 6 November Surgery Secrets: Beauty’s Dark Side is a video podcast exploring the dark themes in the cosmetic surgery industry with Australia’s leading experts. It stands out from other podcasts by refusing to glam...