Alberta doctor suspended after performing liposuctions, eyelid surgeries in office

Dr. Adriaan Kriel, a Medicine Hat-based doctor, has been suspended for a year and fined more than $19,000 following an investigation into more than 600 surgical procedures conducted outside of a hospital. According to the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA), Dr. Kriel admitted to performing more than 340 liposuctions and more than 280 cosmetic blepharoplasty (eyelid modification) procedures in his office between 2007 and 2019 The CPSA confirms Kriel's office was not an approve