Well I finally posted the material I have been carrying around in my Iphone. 2 weeks have passed since I actually wrote the last post , just added, and all is well. We have had a very busy two weeks seeing and scheduling patients for breast augmentations, abdominoplasties and facial procedures.
I am also amazed at how many people I see that need to be revised after bad experiences elsewhere. Sometimes I think I only treat others complications. I have become a master at redoing someelse's initial failed rhinoplasty or breast lift. It also seems that I see an awful lot of patients with capsular contracture who have lost faith in their previous surgeon or surgeons.
I feel badly for these patients because they have already spent alot of money and havn't gotten what they want. At the same time it is unrealistic to think that it is somehow easier to get it right the second or third time around so because the patient has spent alot of money already with someone else they should not have to pay me atleast what they initially spent for the first procedure. I feel for them but I have too have to survive in these hard economic times.
The truth is though that it is not about the money but the satisfaction in helping someone. Now I am trying to figure out how I can get my surgical team to Haiti and yet not disappoint the people I have already scheduled for surgery here!
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
My thoughts as a Plastic Surgeon
December 24th 2009
While watching Julie &Julia on a plane back from Canada I have gotten the great idea to do a plastic surgery blog. I will do a total incite into my mind as it relates to my specialty – fears and triumphs. I will have to fight to make time. Hopefully it will give people a view of what goes through the minds of MD’s that care – how our concerns go far beyond the surgery and how we are always on edge, always thinking the worst when it rarely or never occurs.
December 28th 2009
Well I took some time off and got the chance to spend some family Christmas time in my new home in Canada. I operated literally to the day I left as patients wanted to use holiday time for surgery. Of course that meant that I would not be close to the office if someone had a complication though all the surgeries went extremely well.
It was after Christmas and of course I got a call from a parent that her daughter who had had a septorhinoplasty and turbinate resection 6 days before wasbleeding heavily from one side of the nose, Given the choice of going to the Emergency Room and seeing an MD or going to my office and seeing my nurse they chose the latter. The “heavy” bleeding that I feared might be from the turbinates was a small ooze from a stitch that could easily be controlled. I of course was thinking and fearing the worst and it was essentially nothing. Now I am wondering what the office will have in store for me when I get back.
January 1st 2010
Surprisingly the office was great on my return and there were no problems hanging out and we were able to get through a fairly arduous surgical schedule on two days before the New Year. I was invited to a wonderful New Years Eve party near my home and just as I was really beginning to have fun and converse with friends and acquaintances, I got a page to the Emergency Room of a local hospital and spent the New Year in the operating room controlling someone’s facial bleeding. What a way to start the New Year. I got in at 2 AM atleast I have the next two days off assuming no problems.
While watching Julie &Julia on a plane back from Canada I have gotten the great idea to do a plastic surgery blog. I will do a total incite into my mind as it relates to my specialty – fears and triumphs. I will have to fight to make time. Hopefully it will give people a view of what goes through the minds of MD’s that care – how our concerns go far beyond the surgery and how we are always on edge, always thinking the worst when it rarely or never occurs.
December 28th 2009
Well I took some time off and got the chance to spend some family Christmas time in my new home in Canada. I operated literally to the day I left as patients wanted to use holiday time for surgery. Of course that meant that I would not be close to the office if someone had a complication though all the surgeries went extremely well.
It was after Christmas and of course I got a call from a parent that her daughter who had had a septorhinoplasty and turbinate resection 6 days before wasbleeding heavily from one side of the nose, Given the choice of going to the Emergency Room and seeing an MD or going to my office and seeing my nurse they chose the latter. The “heavy” bleeding that I feared might be from the turbinates was a small ooze from a stitch that could easily be controlled. I of course was thinking and fearing the worst and it was essentially nothing. Now I am wondering what the office will have in store for me when I get back.
January 1st 2010
Surprisingly the office was great on my return and there were no problems hanging out and we were able to get through a fairly arduous surgical schedule on two days before the New Year. I was invited to a wonderful New Years Eve party near my home and just as I was really beginning to have fun and converse with friends and acquaintances, I got a page to the Emergency Room of a local hospital and spent the New Year in the operating room controlling someone’s facial bleeding. What a way to start the New Year. I got in at 2 AM atleast I have the next two days off assuming no problems.