However, I'm not going to let Dr. Li perform my plastic surgery. (Anyone in here watch Dr.90210?) Dr. Li is a Chinese plastic surgeon (woman) and until Monday's show I really liked her. She performs breast surgeries, tummy tucks and etc. Unfortunately I got see her personality when performing surgery on an over-weight woman that had lost a drastic amount of weight because of her stomach by-pass surgery. Well, when the lady came in the Doctor was friendly and very supported but when the woman was put under, things sure did change. The doctor kept talking about how the lady was so heavy and how hard it was to operate. One of her staff even went so far as to pick a piece of the woman's removed skin and put it over his body as a shield and make a smart remark. The doctor (Thin but pregnant) kept remarking how the woman would never be small and how she would never be tiny. (It made me cringe how obsesses the doctor was with the woman's size.) When the surgery was finished then the doctor resumed her friendliness. What makes me so mad is the fact that this is on television and the woman probably didn't know about this when she got the doctor a lovely card thanking her for the beautiful work and told the doctor that she was so grateful and thought of her as someone really special? (I know the doctor felt like crap after that.) Dr. Rey is much nicer and he seems to care deeply about his patience and doesn’t seem to need to make them feel like less of a person. I want to know if any of you have seen the show and who do you like or dislike on it.
Well, doctors tend to make fun of the patient during surgery (if there is time). It's a way to distant themselves from the procedures. It doesn't seem polite, but it's nothing personal against the patient. It may be wrong to show it on tv, but so is showing the whole procedure.
You may be right but I just think Dr. Rey had more sensitivity. I understand distancing yourself (I hear it alot on Cops.) but lets be realistic; wouldn't you want someone that treats you courteously? I mean I know they are paid well but customer service is still key. (Whether it's word of mouth or referral.)
i imagine most plastic surgeons are inclined to be overly critical of others bodies, as well as their own, which is what would draw them to the field (in part). the more "flaws" the doc can find, the more money she can make. i assume they don't acknowledge the patient as human as much as an object to profit from... kinda like when your server is real nice to you at the table, but then talks badly about you in the kitchen, the server just wants a good tip. i've waited tables, many servers recommend the expensive fatty specialty, then talk about how fat you are in the kitchen. it happens everywhere money is to be made, not just plastic surgeons. it's the customers experience that matters, and if the customer is knocked out, then the trash talk isn't part of her experience. everything is like that in the mass-consumer realm... not just plastic surgery. real estate, cars, retail, even drug dealers. profiting off of someone doesn't mean you have to care about them; in fact, it tends to be quite the opposite, exploiting people in the first place is far from caring.
I agree with lawgirl. IMO, (as a member of the health care community) if Plastic Surgeons were really interested in people as people they would be in a real form of medicine. One which helps bodies overcome illnesses and disabilites. In the HCP, Plastics are not well respected. Only those who do Reconstructive Surgery, like for people who been in fires, or had cancer or born with defects. An "A" cup breast is NOT a "deformity" but many Plastic Surgeons will say otherwise. They are the used car salesmen of the medical profession. OF COURSE they are going to be nice to the patient when she is awake, they want her to have more and more proccedures. In other forms of medicine, a doctor will be concerned if a patient has a mental illness or addictive problem. Most Plastic's refuse to admit that there is a mental illness called "Body Dysmorphic Disorder" (Micheal Jackson has it) where the patient has one procedure after an other cuz she or he thinks he is "hideous." Plastics THRIVE on these ill people, and that, personally, makes me sick. I, personally, have NO respect for Plastic Surgeons who only do cosmetic surgery. I think reconstructive surgeons are wonderful, but most cosmetic surgeons want nothing to do with this (also because it involves quite a bit of pro bono work.) Nothing I hear about Cosmentic Surgeons surprises me. I think most of them exploit their patients to the max.
I like that line about an a cup not being a deformity. However, I have to stand up a little for Dr. Rey. Whereas the lady does plastic sugery for money there are times he'll do pro bono work. (There was a lady from Mexico that was developed and extra pair of breast and he operated on her for free.) There was another woman that was raped in her Native country. I can't remember exactly where but in her country they are just awful to women that aren't virgins. The family has the right to kill her and no one will marry her. Dr. Rey had to preform an operation that would reattach her clitoris. I admit that a tummy touch isn't the most brilliant sugery but these people still have to go to school for years and have to be really smart. (You can't go from waiting on tables to preforming sugery, unless you are highly intelligent.)
I admire doctors who do pro bono work. I think the procedure this womyn had was a HYMEN reconstruction, not clitoris. In some cultures the hymen (a membrane which protects the inside of the vagina, and can be stretched or broken during intercourse, or even othe activities) denotes "virginity" and some even have people who "check" to make sure the girl has an intact hymen. It is sad that there are cultures like this (an other reason that I say there is NO reason to "always respect other cultures') and I am glad this Dr. Rey did this, as her patient had no way to change the expectation of her restrictive, misogynistic family. Cosmetic Surgeons have as much medical school as any other MD or DO. Where you have to be careful, is that ANY doctor can practice ANY form of medicine, whether that was his specialty or not. People get hurt when a doctor who specialized in Family Medicine buys a liposuction machine and sets up shop. If you do go to a Plastic Surgeon, make sure they are Board Certified in Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery, with a Certification from the country YOU are having the procedure in. You will be at least given a change at a safer procedure.
Is Dr. Rey the spiv-dressing guy who drives the sports car and does the Tae Kwon Do? What a fake, plastic hollywood tool.
_My sister is an intern & if you heard her talking about her patients -to her colleagues- you would think she is a monster but this is a way -like Kastenfrosch said- to distance themselves from their patients. When the doctors are operating, they make jokes, they play music, they talk about their families & they even gossip. Why? Because we all do the same in our work. I don't think those actions indicate disrespect to their patients, it's a coping mechanism. I do have respect for Comestic Plastic Surgeons because they are the ones ALSO doing reconstructions to deformed patients, I think if I were to not have respect for someone would be people that take surgeries too far & Cosmetics Plastic Surgeons go thru the same school as other doctors, they just especialize in the area -which by the way is one of the hardest plazas/spots to get-. I respect anyone that does his/her job without intent to harm/moneratily benefit & following certain norms & morals.
_I disagree, I know from personal experience that there are doctors that would not operate on a person if they felt it was not needed. I wanted a breast reduction -from C to A- and a couple of doctors said it would un-balance my body structure & that they would not do the procedure. I joked with one on how if I went for implants he would agree & he was happy to tell me that was not the case. Take Michael Jackson, for an extreme case, he has all the money in the world & there are plastic surgeons that refuse to operate on him because they feel he has taken it too far. Like other professions, you would find your "good guys" & your "bad guys".
