Emma* was feeling upbeat the day she checked into the shiny private hospital in Sydney for breast surgery. A law student, 26, she’d previously had a reduction to relieve chronic back pain and feel easier in her petite frame. Now a different doctor, who she’d heard about from friends, was going to give her some subtle shape.
“I was very specific about wanting natural lift and upper volume,” explains Emma. Her surgeon was confident and reassuring throughout the consultation in his upscale office; he’d done a lot of cases like hers. “He said, ‘This is what you want and I can promise you this is what you will get.’’’
But what Emma got was mangled “boulders” and a “nightmare” that would last for six months. “I was in pain 24/7; I couldn’t sit at my desk to work,” she recalls. “Mentally I was so unhappy I didn’t want
