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• Posted to "Uncorrectable" liposuction disaster: board-certification matters on 13 Oct 2009

  And the specific problem is....?

• Posted to "Uncorrectable" liposuction disaster: board-certification matters on 13 Oct 2009

  Sorry for your experience Lexx, however, it is not uncommon for "board certified plastic surgeons" to perform liposuction with conscious sedation (you're awake) for more extensive procedures or even no sedation if the area is small. You may also find it interesting to note that it was a *DERMATOLOGIST* (Dr. Jeffrey Klein) who is credited with developing the tumescent anesthesia techniques used by virtually all physicians, including plastic surgeons, to perform liposuction. Dermatologists, and other non-plastic surgery physicians, can and do perform liposuction competently. Your bad experience is more reflective of that particular physician - or possibly just an unfortunate event that wasn't physician dependent - than any specialty as a whole.

• Posted to "Uncorrectable" liposuction disaster: board-certification matters on 17 Sep 2009

  Ohis post is rubbish and the referenced news story of an outlier event is propagandist sensationalism. Notwithstanding this particular isolated event, almost any generally competent physician - and certainly a dermatologist who despite Dr. Hale's characterization are quite knowledgeable of surgical anatomy of the skin and underlying tissues - can learn to perform liposuction successfully with a modest amount of time and effort. It does not require a full plastic surgery residency to do this safely and well. And, as Dr. Law points out, such training is not a de facto guarantee of good practice or outcome. Certified plastic surgeons belittle and demean other physicians and attempt to carve this procedure - along with many others - out for themselves for the same reason the author of this post claims other specialists seek to perform it: greed. The repeatedly well documented fact in numerous studies is that plastic surgeons have a higher rate of malpractice claims than do other specialists performing cosmetic surgeries and, despite aggressive and biased efforts to prove otherwise, other specialists do not have a higher rate of adverse events. This is specifically true for physicians performing office based procedures with no matching hospital privileges. As for the lawsuit reported in this post: I don't know the details and maybe the doc and Dex screwed up, but given that plastic surgeons are sued at a prodigious rate I imagine Dr. Law and his ilk often change their tune regarding the wisdom of jurors when on sitting at the defendant's table.