{"id":592766,"date":"2026-04-08T05:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/592766\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:29:09","slug":"gp-guilty-of-helping-patient-use-18500-in-super-to-fund-cosmetic-liposuction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/592766\/","title":{"rendered":"GP guilty of helping patient use $18,500 in super to fund cosmetic liposuction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A GP who helped a patient use $18,500 of her superannuation to fund liposuction by claiming it was for life-threatening obesity has been suspended for three months.<\/p>\n<p>The Perth GP was found guilty of professional misconduct last month over \u201cmisleading\u201d information on the patient\u2019s early release of super application, including a suggestion that the patient would have bariatric surgery.<\/p>\n<p>He had treated the patient for years, including for weight management, when she asked about abdominoplasty or liposuction in 2017, according to the State Administrative Tribunal of WA.<\/p>\n<p>He referred her to a surgeon to discuss management of \u201cfatty tissue around the midriff\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A GP who helped a patient use $18,500 of her superannuation to fund liposuction by claiming it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14841,64,63,79041,11910,137,94910,44,16570,1369,289412,289413],"class_list":["post-592766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ahpra","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cosmetic-surgery","tag-general-practice","tag-health","tag-medicolegal","tag-news","tag-regulation","tag-surgery","tag-tribunals","tag-wa-western-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}