Novice doctors ‘promoted as SKorea experts’
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Inexperienced plastic surgeons from South Korea are working illegally in Shenyang, capital city of northeastern Liaoning Province, and giving rise to numerous complaints, it was claimed yesterday.
According to the People’s Daily, the doctors are being promoted as leading experts and patients are paying up to 10 times the local rate for their “expertise.”
However, many of them were just ordinary surgeons, or relatively new to the profession and agents had arranged work for them in hotels and beauty parlors, the newspaper said.
A 28-year-old woman surnamed Zhang told the newspaper she was attracted by one facility’s advertisement, saying that it had brought leading doctors from South Korea to perform surgical procedures.
After spending 30,000 yuan (US$4,839) for a double eye-lid procedure, 10-times the price in a state-owned hospital, she found she was unable to blink. Checks revealed muscles in her upper eyelid had been cut.
When Zhang and her family went back to the plastic surgery clinic, it had moved.
Cheng Liguo, director of the Liaoning Province Cosmetology and Hairdressing Association, said that some people had a blind faith in South Korean doctors and some facilities played on this by falsely claiming that they employed leading professionals from the country.
At present, Cheng said, only two South Korean plastic surgeons were licensed to practice medicine in Shenyang.
Foreign doctors must register with the local health authority after checks on both doctors and employers before they are issued with a permit.
Permits are for one year and have to be reapplied for after that.
The medical facility hiring foreign doctors must deal with any medical disputes and lawsuits that arise.
Shanghai Health Supervision Agency said yesterday there were 56 licensed South Korean doctors in the city, most of them plastic surgeons.
One surgeon hired by the Shanghai Weikai Plastic Surgery Clinic was found to have been operating before receiving a permit this year and the clinic had been punished.
Dr Han Sheng, president of Shanghai Tida Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery Hospital, said South Korea was Asia’s leader in plastic surgery on the eyes, nose and lower jaw.
“We currently have five South Korean surgeons and all of them have registered at the health authority,” Han said. “Their charge is about two times that of Chinese doctors.”
He said there had been no problems with surgical procedures, only some disputes over anesthetics or after-surgery complications which had all been resolved between hospital and patients.
Patients seeking plastic surgery are advised to seek out licensed hospitals and clinics and to check the doctor’s permit if he or she is a foreigner.
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