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July 3, 2007
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
BEFORE
HAVING PLASTIC SURGERY
Spencer
Aronfeld
Board Certified
Trial Lawyer
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 Dear
Client:
About ten million Americans will have
plastic surgery. More than a few patients
are reporting less-than-desired outcomes.
The range of botched
cosmetic procedures can run from the less
than the desired outcome; to life
threatening cases like Jeanette Bernal and
Alexander Baez who are victims of the
Butcher of South Beach.
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10
Ways to Avoid Being a Victim:
1. Make sure you doctor is licensed and
has insurance..check your state's
licensing board or our site:
www.aronfeld.com.
2. Check the local hospital and see if the
doctor has staff privileges.
3. Confirm if the doctor has insurance.
Ask for his insurance policy, limits and
confirm it with the company. In Florida,
insurance is not required to practice
medicine.
4. Speak to actual patients. Ask them
their experience with the doctor both
before and after the surgery. Verify that
the before and after pictures are actual
patients. I have seen cases where the
doctor showed my client photographs of
people who were not only not his patients
but had not had surgery.
5. Some cut-rate practitioners also handle
the anesthesia during the operation. That
means they have twice the work to do and
their attention is divided.
6. Schedule your procedure to be the first
one for the doctor that day. Some
practitioners will perform several
procedures in one day. A typical plastic
surgery usually lasts no longer than four
and one-half to five hours. But in bargain
basement offices, I've seen some cases
where the practitioner operates for 11 and
12 hours.
7. Ask about the doctor's particular
training and experience in that
procedure. Liposuction is art as well as
science, physicians say. But a
practitioner who has taken only a weekend
course before seeing patients for
liposuction services often leaves, not a
smooth contour in the body, but "divots"
in the flesh, spots where too much fat was
removed.
8. Demand that the doctor is board
certified. That means he or she has had a
year of hands-on experience at the side of
an established, older surgeon and has met
vigorous standards in the industry.
9. Shop around. "If you get any pressure
about a low, low price being good for
today only, a huge red warning flag should
go up" .
10. Remember, this is surgery. Take it
seriously and be careful, as your life is
in the hands of the surgeon.
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We are devoted to helping those in need of
justice as a result of the negligence
 of
others.
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For a FREE CONSULTATION please call.
305.441.0440 |
 Spencer Aronfeld
Board
Certified
Trial Lawyer
3132 Ponce
de Leon Boulevard
Coral
Gables, Florida 33134
U.S.A.
TEL: 305.441.0440
FAX:
305.441.0198
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