Patrick Treacy on Pioneering Aesthetic Medicine, Treating Michael Jackson & Witnessing History

 

Meet Patrick Treacy…

Patrick Treacy is a pioneer in Aesthetic Medicine. Throughout his incredible career, he’s won countless awards, trained thousands of doctors and trail-blazed new protocols used around the world today.

In this episode, we talk about:

  • Smuggling cars across the German border to pay for med school

  • Being arrested in Iraq under suspected espionage

  • How being from Ireland quite literally saved his life

  • His phone call with Nelson Mandela

  • Treating Michael Jackson and the subsequent friendship that ensued

  • How he wants to spend the next few decades

  • And advice he’d give to his 18-year-old self

Check it out!


Magic Moment: Dealing Car Scheme


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