I hope you find me primarily an honest person who likes doing what others call cosmetic or plastic surgery
you will only be able to assess if the following statements I make about myself are true when you meet me or you know people who have met me. I encourage you to take the time to come and see me if you are considering a procedure that is within my skill set.
I consider my self old enough, and hopefully wise enough, to have made mistakes in my time. What I hope I have done in my life is not to have admitted my mistakes and have apologised for them and learn from them. I would like everyone to like me but I am realistic that not everyone will (there have been a couple of times when after relationship breakdowns I know certain people who have definitely not liked me).
I like helping people and by doing work in this field you do help people. Generally, which is good for me, I like the people I help. So most of my patients consider me as a friend after the procedures.
I like to keep my word and if I doubt that I can be able to keep my word I don't give such an assurance. If circumstance beyond my control make me not keep my word, I feel the pain and I attempt to make up what I can even if I have not been to blame.
My commitment is to continued training in the field of plastic and cosmetic surgery
My personal training has been slowly acquired over the years. I have spent a lot of time and money travelling to find who I think are the best people and learn from them. I acknowledge their input to my growth. My training has been a slow acquisition of skills. I spent years in emergency departments and ICU's learning to keep people alive, these skills I always want to have in the worst case. I consider some of the skill that best serve me in helping people with the changes to their appearance is the years I spent in general practice talking and establishing rapport with people. Also the training I had in psychiatry helping me to understand the distress and being able to differentiate between pathological thought problems and those that are simply an exaggeration of normal.
II have and will never, stop learning. Whether it be by my constant reading, attending courses, participating in research, or by attending conferences I feel there will always be something to learn, so I can give a better and safer result.
n the practice of Plastic Surgery or Cosmetic Surgery how do you choose a particular doctor to change your body shape?
When you search for someone to help you with changing your body shape you will clearly see the marketing hype I have indicated. It is common practice to portray any one doctor as the "best", an "expert", a "world renowned", the "leading practitioner", or a "pioneer in the field", or "has years of experience". I do not hold myself out to be any of those things. I just what to help people by what I do.
All I am is passionate about what I do and I am constantly trying to learn to be better. I believe that I am not alone and would like to encourage people to look beyond the "credentials" of any one person in making the choice about allowing someone to help them with their appearance. Meet the person and then make your judgements on what you feel about how they want to help you.
"Trust", should be the key test for allowing someone to alter your appearance in Plastic Surgery or Cosmetic Surgery.
My philosophical position is that a person's psychological and physical well being can be strongly influenced by their distress, even if it may only be perceived to the individual, about the way they appear. I believe that most important factor in choosing who to help you, should be based on your trust in me as a person in addition to my skills as a surgeon. You can have a bad result from a good surgeon, the difference in the final outcome will be if you trust that the surgeon cares about you.
My guiding principal is to acheive a realistic outcome, as close as possible to a patient's desires as I can. If I can't do that I don't do the prccedure. I would hope that anyone who finds them in that situation of me saying I can't help feeling that I cared enough about them to have saved them from suffering false expectations from any procedure or even worse the possible adverse outcomes. Also, I hope that in my discussions during the consultation, I will have helped by bringing to your awareness the other options available.
Learn about me and what I may be able to do for you
I invite any one who has found this site by direction or searched to read about me to dive deeper into the site. I encourage you to tell others to do the same and link to this site. I would like to see a conceptual change towards "honesty" in this field and hope to lead by example.
