Ep 44 - Soft Tissue Filler Therapy and Informed Consent with Dr John Arlette

JCMS: Author Interviews & Editor's Choice with Dr Kirk Barber (Listen and earn CME credit)

"Informed consent is your responsibility no matter what. It doesn't matter how many assistants that you have, it doesn't matter who you delegated to, how they word it, in the end it's 'did you talk to the patient about the risk.'"

In this fascinating second part of this interview on the risks of iatropic blindness in soft tissue filler therapy, host Dr Kirk Barber talks to Dr John Arlette about the responsibility of doctors in getting informed consent from patients.

The interview is based on Dr Arlette's article in the Jan/Feb edition of the Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery titled: "Soft Tissue Filler Therapy and Informed Consent: A Canadian Review."

It is co-written with Andrea Froese and Jaspreet Singh of Bennett Law in Calgary and based on a review of all of the data provided by the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) on medical-legal cases arising from the provision of dermal filler therapy between 2005 and 2019 and reported medical-legal cases related to STF therapy in Canada between 2005 and 2019.

The article is available for free for three weeks on the JCMS website after this podcast is posted.

JCMS Author Interviews is produced by David McGuffin of Explore Podcast Productions in Ottawa.

Our theme music was composed by Lee Rosevere.

Be sure to also check out the CDA's Residents Podcast, Dermalogues, hosted by Dr Kerri Purdy and available wherever you listen.

For more on the work of the CDA, please visit our website: www.dermatology.ca