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Doc reported after breast surgery vids hit YouTube

A Stockholm-based plastic surgeon has been reported for uploading videos to YouTube, showing before, during and after footage of patients’ breast augmentations, where the women were identifiable.

Doc reported after breast surgery vids hit YouTube

Two women in their mid-twenties have reported the surgeon, after undergoing augmentations at the Nacka clinic in Stockholm, reported the local newspaper Dalarnas Tidning.

Whilst having consented to the surgeon filming the operation for use on the clinic’s private website, they’d agreed to it only under the condition that voices, faces and anything by which they could be identified would be removed.

The films were then uploaded to YouTube, where the women say they can easily be recognized. The women have now reported the surgeon to the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen).

“Some six months later XX (surgeon’s name) uploaded these films WITH our voices and visible features on the Nacka clinic’s website and on Youtube. Youtube was never mentioned in our agreement, and we were very careful to point out that voices and any visible features should be cut out, so that no one would recognize us in the films,” wrote the women in their report, according to Dalarnas Tidning.

Coming from a small town in Sweden, they have been recognized and questioned by friends, they write.

“The thought of knowing that very many in our age group have seen the film causes us great frustration and panic.”

The films have now been removed from YouTube, but the two women demand some sort of compensation for the insult in their report to Socialstyrelsen.

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Stockholm Pride is a little different this year: here’s what you need to know 

This week marks the beginning of Pride festivities in the Swedish capital. The tickets sold out immediately, for the partly in-person, partly digital events. 

Pride parade 2019
There won't be a Pride parade like the one in 2019 on the streets of Stockholm this year. Photo: Stina Stjernkvist/TT

You might have noticed rainbow flags popping up on major buildings in Stockholm, and on buses and trams. Sweden has more Pride festivals per capita than any other country and is the largest Pride celebration in the Nordic region, but the Stockholm event is by far the biggest.  

The Pride Parade, which usually attracts around 50,000 participants in a normal year, will be broadcast digitally from Södra Teatern on August 7th on Stockholm Pride’s website and social media. The two-hour broadcast will be led by tenor and debater Rickard Söderberg.

The two major venues of the festival are Pride House, located this year at the Clarion Hotel Stockholm at Skanstull in Södermalm, and Pride Stage, which is at Södra Teatern near Slussen.

“We are super happy with the layout and think it feels good for us as an organisation to slowly return to normal. There are so many who have longed for it,” chairperson of Stockholm Pride, Vix Herjeryd, told the Dagens Nyheter newspaper.

Tickets are required for all indoor events at Södra Teatern to limit the number of people indoors according to pandemic restrictions. But the entire stage programme will also be streamed on a big screen open air on Mosebacketerassen, which doesn’t require a ticket.  

You can read more about this year’s Pride programme on the Stockholm Pride website (in Swedish). 

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