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I’m young , beautiful and in good health. Why would I want plastic surgery?

Montefrio

I’m an old guy but I still like pretty women and have been blessed with a NATURAL 55 year old woman who has been blessed with a face and figure that have withstood the ravages of time and gravity. That will end one day, however, and I can say with complete sincerity that were she to wish to resort to surgery to “postpone” what comes naturally, I’d be gravely disappointed. At 69, it’s a near-miracle that I’m still such an Adonis (heh heh!), but ain’t neither one of us going to try and fool Mother Nature, which as we all no “isn’t nice”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVijP-CDVI .

P.S.: margarine is shit! So is the idea that a make-believe face/body is actually attractive unless one prefers a life-size inflatable party doll to an actual human being who is more than a masturbation accessory.

Phil from Oz
Phil from Oz

This is NOT Plastic Surgery, this is is Cosmetic Surgery. Real Plastics involve such major surgeries as reconstructions post major surgeries (e.g. hemimandibulectomies), or reconstruction post major trauma (typically but not only burns / thermal / irradiation injuries).

These “Plastic Surgeons” would be well out of their comfort zone doing this real surgery, and our Plastics Team justifiably lookdown on such “Cosmetic” specialists as almost-charlatans.

For those of you who are so keen on “No State Involvment” in healthcare – “everyone pays for what they need in a “free market” “, consider those charts above very carefully. In your” Free Market” these services will be provided “where the money is”- Cosmetic Surgery, and Cosmetic Dentistry. Don’t kid yourselves that there will be no collusion / establishment of cartels, since US history shows this to be your standard modus operandi – “most money for least effort”.

Important (but relatively rare) problems? If the Cartels cannot make money, they will not provide the service. What path will the Med School graduates (with their hefty tuition loans) choose? The one that guarantees a “good return” on their “investment” – and that mindset will exclude specialities such as Public Health, Infectious Diseases / Tropical Diseases, yet without these specialities modern Medicine will be a lot different (as will modern life expectancy!)

“There will be an oversupply and so they will have to retrain”. Might be worth seeing just how long “re-training” will take. “Apprenticeships” (Registrar > Advanced Trainee > Staff Specialist (Fellowship standard)) can take a decade or more, so the “retraining” option may not be attractive, coupled with “who will be doing the re-training”?? Do you really want your Urologists / Radiologists / Vascular Surgeons to be trained by those who “had” to take these specialities since “that was the only one they could get in to”?

POPULATION healthcare NEEDS centralised management. This should be obvious. Deferring such responsibilities to “devolved organisations” always leads to the “someone else’s problem” mindset, and that “someone else’s problem” WILL come back to bite VERY hard indeed.

Aheinousanus
Aheinousanus

Let’s see these percentages adjusted for population.
From what I read some of the South American countries are lot more active in this.
I also remember looking at a website of a cosmetic surgery center in Europe that was offering to make Africans and Asians appear more European.
Eye surgery for the Asians.
Lips and nose reconstruction for Africans.

bb

Phillip from oz , since you say you are a World Renown Surgeon why do you hang around this site?.Not a trick question . Just nosey…..Plus I believe I can help you with that problem you got !!

Phil from Oz
Phil from Oz

BB – I’m no surgeon. Infectious Diseases – so no “Private” income for me. According to Admin and many others, I’m a “Government Drone”, since by their narrow, judgmental and deeply flawed metrics, I don’t “produce” any “value”, since I’m paid the same whether I cure my Patients, or kill them (providing the Coroner doesn’t notice . . . . .)

I did Medicine because I WANTED to do Medicine, ’cause I was INTERESTED in Medicine.

I’ve worked with many US trained MDs, and the consistent meme there is they did medicine ’cause it was BIG MONEY: EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.

So, your “system” seems to be tooled up to produce “Medicine where the Money is” rather than Medicine where the NEED is. There is a big difference.

Maybe one day you will all realise the benefits of co-operation rather than the wastage of “competition”.

Billah's wife
Billah's wife

I had ter git uh reconstructed ANUS and shitballs uh mighty they got it way too tight. When I deuce it’s like squirtin out silly string. Phil from Oz, what would you reccomend?

Chen
Chen

So that’s what a deuce is

Chen
Chen

BW be needing a major overhaul, I saw it on GoFundMe. Nothing a drone pilot could fix.

Phil from Oz
Phil from Oz

BW – Colorectal’s what you’ll be needing to consult!!

(As a useful aside, the Colorectal Surgeons are one of the larger “users” of my knowledge base – seems gut surgery is a little prone to post-op infections! Who would have known!! 🙂 )comment image

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