Dr. Tom Bell is a leading plastic surgeon in Toronto. For years, he and his colleagues have been pressing the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario to regulate the profession. “As a person going into an office, you should not have to ask – are you a surgeon? Or, are you trained in this? You should rely on the regulatory bodies to have done that level of homework.”
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has been told for years that meaningful regulations were needed. In 1989, another woman, Toni Sullivan died after undergoing liposuction. A coroner’s inquest recommended stricter standards and guidelines for surgery in private clinics but the college let those recommendations gather dust for the past 17 years.
