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Plastic surgery alert: Propofol should be administered only by a physician trained in anaesthesia or intensive care.

Another preventable death! The public is taking this major surgical procedure 'liposuction' too lightly. Read more here on another death related to liposuction in Malaysia: Liposuction related death ........................................................................... From the Straits Times:  Family doctor who did liposuction 'unqualified'  A prominent plastic surgeon on Friday said the family doctor who performed a liposuction on a property management firm boss was inadequately trained and unqualified to do it. The opinion came from Dr Vincent Yeow, 47, the sitting president of the Singapore Association of Plastic Surgeons and an expert witness for the state in the inquest into the December 2009 death of Mr Franklin Heng, 44. ....... Read more here:  http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_728407.html