Source – https://calgaryherald.com/
Regulators have suspended a Medicine Hat family physician following a pair of botched cosmetic procedures.
Dr. Adriaan Kriel has been barred from practising medicine as of Aug. 10 after unprofessionally performing an eyelid revision and a liposuction that resulted in poor outcomes for two women.
A tribunal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta also found Kriel, a family doctor “with an interest in cosmetic procedures,” conducted 610 of the operations in his office, which was an unaccredited and unapproved setting, from 2005 to 2019.
“Dr. Kriel was accused of displaying a lack of skill and judgment in his medical practice after performing a cosmetic blepharoplasty (eyelid revision surgery) and liposuction on two patients. Both patients experienced complications, which Dr. Kriel failed to treat appropriately,” the college said in a news release.
“He performed these procedures over a number of years in unaccredited, non-hospital surgical facilities.”
A month after a blepharoplasty performed in June 2018, a specialist examined Kriel’s patient and found she “presented with a generalized deformed appearance, an inability to completely close her eyes, generalized discomfort, facial swelling and mildly blurred vision.”
Another specialist noted that six months after an October 2018 liposuction, the patient “presented with a significant number blotchy scars, several areas of redness and a buried suture beneath her skin,” stated the tribunal decision.
“Protruding from several of the scars was some brown material. (The patient) subsequently underwent four operations with the specialist to have at least 12 scars revised by excising the scars.”
The tribunal also concluded Kriel failed to adequately address the surgeries’ complications and had inaccurately reported to the CPSA that he had stopped performing blepharoplasties.
But they also noted the physician has generally served his communities well for many years, that he hadn’t been previously disciplined and he fully accepted responsibility for his actions.
Kriel has been ordered to pay the $19,252 cost of the investigation into his case and its hearing, and that he provide the CPSA written assurance he will not perform any procedure that must be provided in an accredited facility.