Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons

What is a Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon?

Plastic and reconstructive surgeons work across a broad scope of practice from procedures to improve aesthetic appearance to full reconstructive surgery. Reconstructive surgery aims to restore the form and function of a body, and is performed on abnormal structures caused by trauma, infection, tumours, or disease.

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Dr Richard Lewandowski

M.B.B.S., F.R.A.C.S., C.I.M.E., G.E.P.I.

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How Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeons contribute to medicolegal matters

Their role is to offer objective, clinically grounded insight that assists lawyers, insurers, regulators, and courts to understand reconstructive and aesthetic conditions, how surgical care was planned and delivered, and how outcomes, complications or long-term effects may relate to the issues in dispute.

Typically, medicolegal plastic and reconstructive surgeons provide:

File reviews involving medical records, operative notes, imaging, consent documentation, and post-operative care records
Expert advisory input on whether surgical assessment, decision-making, and operative management aligned with accepted standards of practice at the time
Opinion on surgical technique, wound management, scarring, reconstruction outcomes, and management of complications
Independent Medical Examinations in matters where reconstructive surgery, injury, or surgical outcome is central to the issues being considered
Impairment reporting where disfigurement, functional limitation, or surgical complications have contributed to ongoing impact
Supplementary reports to clarify or expand opinion as new information or questions arise
Expert witness work in civil claims, regulatory matters, or inquests, including participation in conferences, hearings, or court
Specialist opinion in matters involving complex reconstruction, trauma, burns, or catastrophic injury

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