A ^Retired Plastic Surgeon's Notebook

Yet another bogus TOP DOC award I could hang on my wall but won’t.  Here is the cut and paste of an email I received today from one Daniel Singh. “You Have Been Nominated – Join the Top Breast Surgeons in America Only 5 Plastic Surgeons will be chosen per state to be showcased www.AmericasTopBreastSurgeons.comContinue reading…

Seattle Plastic Surgeon is off to Spokane to inspect an in-office operating for the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities, Inc.  (AAAASF) I am off to my hometown, Spokane, this weekend both to visit family but also to inspect the in-office operating room of one of Spokane’s plastic surgeons for AAAASF.  I’ll be snooping aroundContinue reading…

Seattle Plastic Surgeon advises patients to do their homework when choosing a plastic surgeon.  Make sure that “cosmetic surgeon” is the real meal deal. Today I saw a patient for follow-up after her Botox injection.  She was thrilled with how well the injection worked for her frown lines.  Prior to seeing me, she had beenContinue reading…

Seattle Plastic Surgeon loves this billboard in Utah. This is a billboard in Utah that has a bunch of plastic surgeon wannabes’* knickers in a knot.  Why?  Because the billboard implies that plastic surgery ought to be performed by plastic surgeons.  Shocking, huh? So what’s a wannabe* to to?  Take it to court, of course. Continue reading…

Seattle Plastic Surgeon Tells the Tale of a Tail – It’s a great story about greed.   Gertrude McFuzz is a wonderful Dr. Seuss story, one of three in his book Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories. All three stories involve hubris and/or greed. Here’s the Cliff Notes of Gertrude McFuzz: Gertrude is a plain littleContinue reading…

Seattle Plastic Surgeon blogs about the MYTH of local anesthesia being safer than general anesthesia. I would  like to dispel the myth that local anesthesia is somehow safer than general anesthesia.  There are some practices that use the “we only use local anesthesia” as a selling point to imply that their practice is  safer, more advanced or “less invasive”Continue reading…

Seattle plastic surgeon blogs about the lessons she has learned (the hard way, of course) about Mini Tummy Tuck. Indications for a Mini Tummy Tuck are few and far between. Sometimes a procedure just seems too good to be true and that is often the case for Mini Tummy Tuck.  It seems that every weekContinue reading…

Seattle Plastic Surgeon weighs in on the Dr. Conrad Murray verdict. I remember clearly the day that Michael Jackson died.  I was operating at Seattle Surgery Center and the news went around the O.R. quickly as did speculation of his cause of death.  Drugs was at the top of my list. As the story unfolded,Continue reading…

Seattle Plastic Surgery, Dr. Lisa Lynn Sowder gets picky and prickly about before and after photos.  You should be picky and prickly too! I have blogged about this topic on many occasions but this example takes the cake!  Not because it is blatantly Photoshopped but because it comes from an advertisement insert in the latest editionContinue reading…

Seattle Plastic Surgeon Discusses          Lifestyle Lift Okay, okay. I have had a jillion questions about the “Lifestyle Lift” in the past few weeks. All I can figure is that they are doing some sort of marketing blitz. I don’t watch T.V. so I am a little out of the loop. I am not one ofContinue reading…