{"id":130689,"date":"2025-05-09T12:15:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T12:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/when-cosmetics-doctors-injure-they-themselves-have-to-take-the-bill-utterance\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T12:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T12:15:35","slug":"when-cosmetics-doctors-injure-they-themselves-have-to-take-the-bill-utterance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/when-cosmetics-doctors-injure-they-themselves-have-to-take-the-bill-utterance\/","title":{"rendered":"When cosmetics doctors injure, they themselves have to take the bill-utterance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In April, news told the appalling story of Eli Anne Therkildsen who died after a cosmetic operation performed at a private cosmetic clinic. The clinic itself did not have the opportunity to take responsibility and handle the complications. Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet and the public stepped in. Therkildsen died after seven months of intensive hospital treatment and 70 operations. This is primarily a human tragedy for those affected, but it also incurs great costs on society. According to Dr. Andreas Barratt-Due at the National Hospital, the operations in this one case cost tens of millions of NOK. The case is an extreme example, but illustrates somewhat wider. Cosmetic procedures performed by health professionals in the private are growing rapidly. They also perform some interventions with medical justification, or indication of the professional language, but this is an example of the opposite, and there are such cases we will discuss here. It is important to understand that all interventions involve greater or minor risk, and in some of them it will go wrong, whether due to mistakes or matters that are difficult to control. As Barratt-Due tells news: \u201cIs it reasonable that the commercial players in cosmetic surgery escape the financial responsibility? They make a lot of money, but the costs when there are complications are fully covered by the public. \u201d We believe it is reasonable to assume that the population does not want the community, through the tax money, to bear the costs of treating complications that occur after cosmetic interventions without medical justification. Nevertheless, cosmetic clinics can today rely on the public health care system to support if something goes wrong. In this way, the public health system acts as a safety net for a commercial industry. It thus enables a practice that initially, for professional and ethical reasons, is something the public refuses from. Without the public, no such surgery. At a time when the Norwegian health care system is under pressure, it is highly problematic that the private can take on tasks that they are so unable to follow up if serious complications should be added. This is ethically problematic and economically unfair. The public expenditure does not only entail a direct cost, but also an indirect cost, or alternative costs, where scarce public resources and doctors’ time and education could have gone to something else. In practice, complications from such interventions also lead to sick leave, long -term health problems such as pain and, in the worst case, disability, with high human and socio -economic costs. As a Norwegian Association for General Medicine, we believe that doctors should basically not perform interventions without medical justification. But when it is still done, we believe that for the reasons we have mentioned above, a formal distinction between cosmetic interventions and reconstructive interventions that are medically justified must be established, and that the industry itself has to pay for complications of the cosmetic. Cosmetic clinics, like alternative medicine – have already lost VAT exemption for such services from 2021, so this distinction is possible. We propose the following new scheme: Cosmetic players are required to have a private insurance for all interventions without medical indication. The insurance must be activated when the public must take over the treatment of large and small complications. Such a scheme will have different advantages: It corrects some of the unjust by the public paying. It will be neither the client nor the community that takes responsibility for the risk the clinic has chosen to create without a proper medical basis. The clinics must price the insurance premium into their interventions. It will make the procedures more expensive and perhaps less attractive to perform and order. The public sector enables the cosmetic activity to a lesser extent. It will be easier to distribute responsibilities and costs when complications occur. We will get some statistics and a somewhat more realistic picture of what these interventions actually cost society and what interventions are the most burdened by the public. This is not about moralizing people’s choices. It is our opinion that the public should stand up to remedy the injury, even when the person has consented to the procedure. The contract The population has, with the state, is based on a mutual understanding that the population pays tax and then knowing that if things go wrong then they will be caught up. Our proposed scheme has to do with doctors’ professional responsibility. It is a problem that doctors as private actors can run from their professional and financial responsibilities and take an unnecessary risk, knowing that you as a citizen must pick up the bills. It undermines confidence in the health care system and the priorities we make jointly – and is not sustainable. Send us your utterance desire to write? Feel free to contact us in news Ytring with your post. The guidelines can be found here. Published 09.05.2025, at. 12.54
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