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Question: When I called our Medical Association prior to reconstruction, I was
informed that all anyone had to do to do brain surgery was graduate
from medical school. Then without any other training, they could do
any type of surgery they wanted. They just couldn't say they were
board certified in the field.
A few years ago, my step children were having a fit wanting their dad
to go see a doctor who specialized in chelation of the veins with
pyroxide. I checked out the doctor. He was an OB/GYN, according to
the state, and had never changed his designation.
Many of those who have changed to the more lucrative field of plastic
surgey do so not out of concern for their patients, but for their real
concern for the health and welfare of their wallets.
When will we ever learn? The majority of the plastic surgery industry
is about nothing but $$$$$$$$$4.
Answer: When you look into the mirror, are there things that you would like to
change or a few pounds you would like to shed?
You could invest time at a gym or instead follow the path of many Canadians
and pay for a quick fix with cosmetic surgery. But be warned. The
physician's sacred oath, "First do no harm" may not always apply.
The confusing and competitive world of commercial medicine reinforces the
old consumer adage "buyer beware". Any doctor in Canada with a license to
practice medicine can perform cosmetic surgery.
In Calgary, Alberta, 50-year old Helen Dueck is living proof of what can go
horribly wrong.
Like many middle-aged women, she was unhappy with the bulge of fat around
her middle. In April 1998 she decided to do something about it.
Helen heard of a doctor who would do liposuction for a few hundred dollars,
but the price she paid for the cut-rate surgery turned out to be a lot
higher.
"I was too sick to even realize how sick I really was."
Helen ended up in emergency and she wasn't alone. Helen met Dorothy Smith at
the hospital. She'd been to the same doctor for liposuction. They met yet
another patient, Sharlene McLaughlin.
I had to have skin grafting off both of my legs," says Sharlene.
The women all developed a life-threatening infection from the liposuction,
necrotizing fasciitis. It is the same disease that resulted in doctors
removing part of Lucien Bouchard's leg.
"It ended up that I had flesh-eating disease to the point where I had no
lower abdomen... It was gone," says Sharlene.
"It was eaten down to the organs. I guess apparently it traveled that fast,"
says Dorothy.
The hospital rushed in plastic surgeon, Dr. Wayne Perron to repair the
damage.
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