The benefits of wonderful operating room staff
I know I’ve blogged about how patients are the real winners if they find a doctor who has his or her own operating room, but I can’t overemphasize that enough! Our in-office operating room is getting busier each week with new patients and the OR staff are really starting to shine. The key is […]
Music in the Operating Room
I think most patients would be surprised to know that their surgeons listen to music in the operating room. While the operating room is a place for seriousness and focus, some may think music detracts from that singular focus we hope our surgeons have. However, you should consider music to be a supporting character […]
Benefits of Educated Patients
A recent patient scheduled surgery for liposuction and a breast lift after consultation. A day or two after she booked (but before her surgery), she sent me an email with some follow up questions. All good questions but her questions also had links to online references to help explain her perspective and concerns. It was […]
Time for plastic surgeons to look in the mirror?
I recently returned from a plastic surgery meeting with many of the leading plastic surgeons in the field. This particular meeting focused on cosmetic, not reconstructive, procedures. I’m talking about non-surgical services like Botox or fillers but also surgical procedures such as facelifts, eyelid lifts, breast augmentation and tummy tucks just to name a few. […]
Breast implant removal
Despite the best of intentions and expectations, patients are sometimes unhappy with the appearance of breast implants. They may even want their implants removed. However, they should consider the consequences before having a breast implant removal procedure. If the patient doesn’t have a great deal of breast tissue before breast augmentation, they may be […]
How to hide your cosmetic surgery
A question on every cosmetic surgery patient’s mind is how to keep their secret of recent “work” from their coworkers. There’s no reason to be embarrassed if you want a nip or tuck but you don’t necessarily want everyone back at work knowing all of your business. So how do you hide the fact that […]
Health Insurance Companies Don’t Care About You/Me
I believe in capitalism and I believe that a company shouldn’t be ashamed of trying to make a profit. After all, staying in business is the name of the game. But when it comes to your healthcare, there is some unwritten rule or maybe it is written in the form of the Hippocratic Oath, that […]
Want surgery? Ask a friend.
I just performed surgery on a patient. My patient had a friend who recently had the same procedure. It’s been a great recovery for both the patient and for me! During the consultation and preop visit, I always go over the surgery we’ll be performing, the risks and benefits, the process on the day […]
Dogma is a bad word in medicine
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, the medical establishment is rethinking the whole perioperative period – that time before surgery when you’re starving because you can’t eat or the time after surgery when you’re nauseated, in pain and overloaded with fluid. Medicine is changing, and in this case, for the better. […]
Lifestyle Lift Shuts Down
As first reported by the Wall Street Journal, Lifestyle Lift is shutting down after 14 years in business. The chain of facelift centers had built up a lot of bad debt and bad PR that finally caught up with them. For those of you that don’t know, Lifestyle Lift (the website is still up but […]