Forgive me for being graphic, but I would like to illustrate a point.
Did you wonder why we do not have Prostate Exam parties or Pap Smear Parties?
- Maybe it would take more than a glass of white wine to get you loosened up?
- Maybe because you would feel like the doctor's attention is not only focused on you (as it should be)?
- Maybe because your exam would be diminished by being just another quick exam as others are lining up?
- Maybe because you really deserve better and because it is utterly unprofessional ?
- How about ALL of these??
In my opinion, doctors who resort to such mass marketing practices must be desperate (not real Plastic surgeons or Dermatologists) because no "informed consent process" takes place, the women present are literally coerced by their friends to be cool and join in without fully understanding the process or the benefits and the doctor (or "injector") has seconds to asses his patient before injecting Botox without the benefit of having taken a medical history or doing a physical exam.
There is A LOT OF BAD BOTOX OUT THERE. Botox parties is one of the reasons for those weird looking faces you see out there. (Read http://www.cosmeticsurgeryspecialists.org/botox.html)
Surely - You deserve better!
Peter A Aldea, MD, FACS
