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.