Plastic surgeons may go through extensive training to be excellent clinicians, but they often end up learning how to practice the business of medicine through trial and error. This unique book, targeted specifically at plastic surgeons and other general practitioners, seeks to address this glaring weakness; it offers many different viewpoints while covering a wide ranging multitude of topics that includes the latest know-how on how to build one's website and office surgery suite, track his practice for increased productivity, and develop medical inventions and a medspa. The Business of Plastic Surgery also features notable authors like Michael Longaker, Robert M Pearl, and Mark Gorney.
Each chapter includes patient selection and preparation, technique, complications, outcomes assessment, and references, and many illustrations that have been prepared specifically for this book.
Yet , only 62 percent report board certification in this area ( Randolph 1997 , 65 ) . More than one - fifth are not certified by any ABMS - recognized board and another 16 percent are certified by a different ABMS - recognized board .
Provides information on developing a successful aesthetic medicine practice, covering such topics as branding, defining a market, promotion, marketing, image and reputation, and chossing staff.
The authors answer many of the questions posed by plastic surgery, showing readers how to locate, evaluate, and communicate with a skillful, professional provider of plastic surgery services, while also discussing the aesthetic and ...
This three-volume set also includes seven DVDs with 24 operative videos. Comprehensive Coverage 93 chapters in three volumes cover the full range of cosmetic medical treatments and aesthetic operations.
This book covers the history of plastic surgery from the remarkable achievements of such ancient civilizations as India and Egypt up to the revolutionary techniques developed at the end of the Middle Age, the Renaissance and beyond.
Written by experts in plastic and reconstructive surgery worldwide, this book is a valuable resource for practicing plastic surgeons as well as residents and fellows in plastic surgery.
The book covers the most innovative, contemporary, and common plastic surgery procedures, and aims to improve both reconstructive and aesthetic surgical results while decreasing the incidence of complications.
With novel approaches to the application of new technologies via research based studies on stem cells, tissue engineering and new fields of reconstructive transplant (face, hand or larynx transplants), this book facilitates access to this ...
In Venus Envy, Elizabeth Haiken traces the quest for physical perfection through surgery from the turn of the century to the present.