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Botox nurse ordered to pay $30k, face five-month professional suspension

A nurse who got Botox from someone who wasn’t a pharmacist and injected clients without a doctor present has been professionally reprimanded, following a recent decision from the B.C. College of Nurses & Midwives. Roshanak Rahi, who operated out of a Westwood Plateau medical clinic, is facing a five-month suspension and has been ordered to […]

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