Over the weekend a young American woman, Esther, shared bravely about her recent experience in Korea where she’d gone on holiday since March 1st.
The drug she spoke of recently launched in Australia and I’d attended the launch but was waiting to hear of reports of its use by colleagues before considering integrating it into my own practice.
Towards the end of her 2 week holiday, she decided to go ahead with an aesthetic treatment by a doctor she said she trusted. She clarified the name of the drug, a skin booster and stated that she felt confident it wasn’t high risk and that she had “done my research”.
Nonetheless almost instantly at the time of injection of this drug around her left eye, she lost vision. Despite telling the injecting doctor this (only doctors can inject in most parts of the world; Australia, New Zealand, the USA and UK are some of the countries in which non doctors can and do inject including dentists), she reported her concerns were minimised, she was advised to cool off an hour and then eventually sent home.