A HARLEY Road physician has been banned for 5 months after finishing up a £3,500 “penis filler” operation throughout lockdown.
Dr Mohammed Sefahn Chaudhry, 35, saved his personal clinic open utilizing the web site PenisFill.co.uk and supplied beauty remedies as prizes as the general public had been instructed to remain dwelling through the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Chaudhry, who calls himself ‘Dr Sef’ and drives a Ferrari, put up £1,000 value of “Barbie tip rhinoplasty” and “lip filler” remedies as giveaway prizes in a social media draw.
He was reported to the Common Medical Council after a affected person who underwent “penis filler” surgical procedure between April and August 2020 claimed his genitalia was left “misshapen” and developed a “lump”.
The person, referred to as Affected person A, additionally alleged Chaudhry had posted “earlier than and after” photos of his penis on his web site with out his permission.
The affected person additionally accused Chaudhry, from Coulsdon, South London, of forging paperwork and elevating his voice on the man when he complained concerning the outcomes of the process.
At a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service listening to in Manchester, Chaudhry was discovered responsible of significant skilled misconduct regarding non important work through the pandemic.
He was suspended from medical practise for 5 months.
However the disciplinary panel cleared him over allegations he failed to provide correct therapy to Affected person A.
It additionally rejected claims Chaudhry posted the “earlier than and after photos” on-line – after evaluating the photographs in query to a different image of the person’s penis which he despatched to an knowledgeable witness within the case as proof.
The physician, who certified in 2016, ran two beauty clinics – Dermis Clinic Ltd and MC Medical Aesthetics Restricted.
The investigation started in October 2020 after Affected person A complained about his penis filler process.
It was carried out after he was contacted over WhatsApp the earlier April in a “advertising and marketing name” by considered one of Chaudhry’s work colleagues.
The Manchester listening to was instructed Affected person A had wished ”elevated penis girth” as his companion was ”not happy”, and he had undergone an analogous process in 2017.
He mentioned in a press release: ”The decision was purely logistical e.g. after they might see me, how I might get there (given this was through the COVID pandemic), whether or not Dr Chaudhry had a London clinic and so forth.
“I confirmed that I used to be circumcised and requested whether or not my pores and skin would adapt to the filler, and I used to be suggested that it could.”
Affected person A underwent the process on Might 4, 2020, with Dr Chaudhry.
The next June he attended a second session through which he mentioned the filler had not hardened and his penis began to look “mishappen”.
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He mentioned there was a lump and the filler remained gentle.
He additionally claimed Chaudhry steered additional filler ought to be injected without cost.
On July 18, 2020, Affected person A attended Chaudhry’s clinic for a 3rd session and process, and it was agreed that the enzyme Hylase be injected into his penis to dissolve the lump.
However in his assertion Affected person A alleged: ”Dr Chaudhry raised his voice, implying that he was out of pocket as he had supplied a few of the filler without cost and that it was my fault the filler hadn’t hardened.
“I did not assume this was very known as for.”
He subsequently claimed he noticed “earlier than and after” photographs of his genitals on the PenisFill web site, insisting he recognised it within the “earlier than” photos as a result of positioning of the lump.
He claimed the “after” image was of his penis instantly after the preliminary filler process.
Chaudhry denied wrongdoing claiming the image was of one other affected person’s penis and insisted: ”I deny elevating my voice at any time throughout my appointment with Affected person A.
“He appears to be looking for methods to get a refund.”
He added: ”Through the Covid pandemic my understanding and perception was that the remedies I supply are medical.
“Subsequently I by no means seen them as non-essential.
“Each consumer that got here to us through the pandemic, who was looking for remedies for purely beauty causes, weren’t seen andadvised to come back after restrictions had been lifted.
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”Our clinic was not open as regular and has strict Covid insurance policies and protocols.
“I’d additionally wish to state, that the world that I work in was an especially gray space through the pandemic.
“My colleague medical doctors, engaged on the identical avenue, had been performing a whole bunch of beauty solely procedures.
”I used to be not intently or purposefully breaching Covid laws.
“It was a extremely unprecedented interval with grand uncertainty intertwining additionally features of the working life.
“Once more I’m very sorry if this has put the general public confidence in medical doctors in danger and jeopardising the professions popularity.
“I’ve learnt many worthwhile classes from this course of.”
He additionally mentioned the clinics not supplied remedies as prize giveaways.
In suspending Chaudhry, MPTS chairman Ms Amarjit Sagar mentioned the Tribunal didn’t settle for that Dr Chaudhry “might have presumably thought that he was permitted to stay open through the interval of the pandemic”.
She added: ”There was huge press protection and day by day broadcast updates concerning the dangers of the unfold of COVID-19 but regardless of this, Dr Chaudhry selected to proceed to work and stay open.
”Affected person A had not been in ache together with his penis and there was nothing to recommend he required pressing medical consideration.
“The Tribunal was due to this fact happy that treating Affected person A by injecting him with penis filler was non-essential therapy.
”It decided that in persevering with to work, Dr Chaudhry ignored the constraints imposed on most people and acted as if that these didn’t apply to him.
“Throughout this era, relations couldn’t attend the funerals of their family members and main surgical procedures wanted to be postponed.
“Dr Chaudhry would have been conscious of the seriousness of the state of affairs.”
She added that fellow practitioners had been beneath strain working throughout Covid-19 situations to maintain the general public secure, and Dr Chaudhry was additionally obliged to maintain sufferers secure by closing his clinic.
She added: “The Tribunal thought-about this behaviour to be deplorable and because the public endured the restrictions imposed by Authorities steering he continued offering non-essential therapy for monetary achieve.
”The Tribunal thought-about that Dr Chaudhry was prompting prospects to interrupt COVID19 tips by incentivising them with aesthetic procedures value £1,000.”
Dr Chaudhry has posted saying {that a} winner can be introduced “in 48 hours”, the listening to was instructed.
The MPTS chairman continued: “Though there was nothing to recommend that the winner would obtain the prize through the COVID-19 lockdown, the Tribunal thought-about the context, through which Dr Chaudhry had already beforehand ignored COVID-19 steering by treating Affected person A with a non-essential process.
”The Tribunal was due to this fact of the view that it was potential that he would deal with the winner throughout this era.
“He put sufferers liable to hurt by promoting medical remedies through the COVID-19 lockdown.”
Ms Sagar added: ”Dr Chaudhry ought to have acted promptly to make sure affected person security and as director ought to have closed the clinics and cancelled any sufferers that had been booked in.
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“Failing to take action posed a threat to sufferers who had been travelling, presumably on public transport, to see him in addition to mixing with any employees members on the clinic.
“He has proven no regret.”
