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Example of unscrupulous cosmetic surgeon Case 3

Fatal accidents. Medical errors. Plastic surgery failures. Medical accidents caused by cosmetic surgeons are quite large and often covered by the media. Unlike insurance treatment, cosmetic surgery treatment is influenced by the patient's subjective opinion, and there are actually very few obvious medical accidents such as plastic surgery failures. However, fatal accidents are a different story. One cosmetic surgery actively hires doctors with little experience in surgery or cosmetic surgery. Normally, doctors with a lot of clinical experience should be given preferential treatment. In fact, one cosmetic surgery was a clinic that attracted patients by selling low prices and performed surgery in an assembly line manner. It was decided that taking time to counsel each patient and having an experienced specialist perform cosmetic surgery carefully would be a negative profit, so the policy was to perform surgery in an assembly line manner with techniques that were close to inexperienced. Doctors with a lot of clinical experience naturally have doubts about this type of treatment, but doctors with little clinical experience take it for granted. In other words, they easily perform rough surgery in an assembly line manner, thinking that it is the original cosmetic surgery. This is a clinic that attracts customers and performs surgery at surprisingly low prices, such as double eyelid surgery at 2 yen and breast augmentation at 22 yen. Even as a specialist, I have doubts about the fact that double eyelid surgery is an astonishing price compared to the general market price. When you consider the counseling, preparation, surgery, aftercare, and guarantees for patients who undergo surgery, the price is less than the cost price. You cannot receive real medical care at this price. I also have doubts about the clinic's catchphrase, ``We are a major clinic, so you can rest assured, and we offer the highest level of safety and security.'' I have performed many revision surgeries on patients who have had surgery at this cosmetic surgery clinic. The immaturity of the surgical techniques is clear when you look at the postoperative condition of the patients. In fact, this cosmetic surgery clinic has had a fatal accident in the past, which was widely covered by the media. They had a doctor who had just graduated from medical school perform surgery for underarm odor. This doctor, who lacked surgical training and basic medical knowledge, seems to have injected a lethal dose of anesthetic into the patient. The patient died of anesthetic poisoning after the injection. The fact that the doctor did not know how to respond in an emergency led to the patient's misfortune. It is said that local anesthetic shock can occur in one case out of 10. Proper treatment can sometimes save a patient's life. In this clinic's case, the problem was not with the patient's constitution but with the doctor's ability. A doctor who is inexperienced and does assembly-line work cannot deal with such problems at all. Most of the doctors at this cosmetic surgery clinic do not attend or give presentations at cosmetic surgery conferences. Will new surgical techniques and ideas from academic exchanges interfere with their assembly-line surgery? Naturally, there is not a single specialist certified by the society at this cosmetic surgery clinic. I am surprised that this cosmetic surgery clinic is still growing, selling low-cost surgery despite the fatal accident. I am in my 1th year as a cosmetic surgeon and I preach that cosmetic surgery should be performed carefully, but a certain cosmetic surgeon who performed major surgery immediately after graduating from medical school tells patients that it is easy. I believe that such doctors should be excluded in order to protect the rights of patients and to be recognized as a cosmetic surgeon in society.