Vampire Breast Lifts, Lawsuits, and more! - No Spin Live - Ep. 27

Описание: Board certified plastic surgeons discuss the latest hot topics in plastic surgery including Vampire Breast Lifts, Lawsuits, and more!

ued by 15 Women After Plastic Surgery Complications


A story often heard, another doctor unqualified to perform plastic surgery procedures is – you guessed it – under legal fire by 15 female patients for surgical complications. The doctor in question was trained in family practice, a medical specialty woefully short in required experience for surgery.

Why is it that non-qualified doctors get into performing plastic surgery procedures? Why do patients end up in unqualified offices to request procedures the doctor doesn’t have adequate training for? Board certified plastic surgeons discuss on the latest episode of No Spin Live!

MISREPRESENTATION IN THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY
Perhaps the most obvious problem with these situations is how unqualified doctors get patients in the door for plastic surgery procedures. If a doctor only trained in family practice – years and years shy of the training and experience required to achieve status as a qualified surgeon – why are patients giving them the time of day, and worse, putting their lives into the doctors’ hands?

“There’s always two sides to this story,” explains board certified plastic surgeon Dr. Jason Pozner. “One is, the guy was completely misrepresenting himself as a board certified plastic surgeons. On this show, we’re all board certified plastic surgeons. It means we’re qualified in our fields, and we’ve gotten to a certain state by following the rules. Obviously this guy is just trying to ride on our coattails by advertising whatever.”

Advertising and marketing are powerful, but their power can be used for both good and ill. With the speed and shortcuts available thanks to the digital age, it takes little more than some hard work to set up a website that could claim all sorts of things. Flashy pictures and bold headlines may alleviate all concerns about what a doctor’s true skillset is, and which accreditations are meaningful. Due to this, there is some responsiblity on the patient to know what to look for, and to simply do research from the get-go.

“In this day and age of the internet, the women should be looking up the doctor and checking their credentials themselves to make sure that this is a board certified plastic surgeon,” continues Dr. Pozner.

DO THE LAWSUITS HAVE MERIT?
In many of these cases, the unfortunate result is death. In this particular case, many of the lawsuits dealt with fairly common complications following some plastic surgery procedures.

“Some of the lawsuits that I read that this doctor had were capsular contracture – which can happen to anybody!” says Pozner. “Whether you’re a board certified or not, we get capsular contracture.”

Dr. Dustin Reid, a board certified plastic surgeon practicing in Austin, disagrees. While the complications are in fact somewhat common in even the best of hands, the frequency is what should disturb readers.

“Jason, I’m going to argue with you on that,” Dr. Reid begins. “I agree with you that he misrepresented himself, but then you turned around and said he had the complications we all have. But by definition, if you have the training, you are going to have fewer of these complications. I would say no one on this panel – or anyone that we would respect as a good board certified plastic surgeon – has 12 lawsuits against them for this sort of thing.”

Complications do happen in the hands of the best plastic surgeons. The importance of seeing an expert is that they know best how to deal with complications – both the extremely serious ones that could always happen on the OR table and those that happen months and years later as the body reacts to the changes that were made.

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