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admin @ August 31, 2009 # One Comment
Medical boards exist to make things better and safer for you, the patient.
Medical boards exist at the national, state, county and local levels. All 50 states can bestow – or cancel – a doctor’s medical license.
They can also discipline physicians who somehow get out of line or injure patients.
State medical boards even have the power [...]
admin @ May 26, 2009 # One Comment
Maybe you read our last post about 155 U.S. plastic surgeons who have agreed to donate their valuable skills to remove scars and perform facial plastic surgery on soldiers wounded in Iraq.
Actually, many plastic surgeons are full of the milk of human kindness and often donate their services and skills to people in need.
For instance, [...]
admin @ March 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
While there are about 2,000 to 3,000 board-certified plastic surgeons in the United States, there were about 12 million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures completed during 2007, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS.)
Does that mean every plastic surgeon is performing 4,000 to 6,000 procedures a year? Hardly!
What it really means: if you choose [...]
admin @ March 25, 2009 # 2 Comments
Ever see a physician – including plastic surgeons – on television and wonder what it would be like to have him or her as your personal doctor?
Our guess is that Drs. McNamara and Troy from Nip-Tuck would probably not be considered due to their many quasi-legal shenanigans, schemes and off-beat scenarios. Dr. Jan Adams from [...]
admin @ March 17, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Would you allow a dentist to do a breast augmentation on your daughter? How about letting a doctor trained in reading X-rays do a liposuction on you? (See our post on the liposuction doctor who was really a radiologist.)
Or worse yet, would you let that radiologist supervise another untrained person – who is not even [...]