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Cosmetic Surgery Dangers
By admin | March 19, 2010
The Dangers Lurk When Cosmetic Surgery is Performed in an Inapporpriate Location
Recently, the news about some cosmetic treatment has not been good. Nonphysicians injecting the equivalent of WD40 into women’s buttocks. Skin peels being done in doctor’s homes. What is going on here?
The common denominator in some of these stories of outlandish and nonprofessional conduct is that procedures which may not be surgical and yet still involve treatments are being done in inappropriate locations. Why is that?
One reason is that the practitioners do not have the qualifications to do the procedures in a facility which is accredited or licensed. What that means is that a facility that has certain standards that all its physician staff members must meet are being bypassed. It is easy to make a case for accreditation and, therefore, qualification of surgical facilities.
Understand that physicians are not obligated to perform procedures in properly credentialled facilities but for those physicians who wish to operate at the highest professional level, they should be.
It is not appropriate to have nonphysicians perform procedures, of course, and it is equally improper for physicians to perform procedures for which they are not qualified and yet evade the stringent requirements of a surgical facility. There should be no “underground” procedures.
So prospective patients need to ask, where will my plastic surgery procedure be performed? Is the facility licensed by the state, certified by the United States government or accredited by an independent accrediting organization? In my book, THE ESSENTIAL COSMETIC SURGERY COMPANION, Don’t Consult A Cosmetic Surgeon Without This Book!, we list the organizations which act to credential surgical facilities.
Yes, this seems like a lot of work and, yes, it takes a little bit of time but is anything more important than getting the proper care in the right and safe location?
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