As we all know in life, when you are sick, especially when you are seriously ill, the most important thing you can do to ensure the best treatment effect is to choose the right doctor.
But how to find the "best" plastic surgeon? Search online for "the best plastic surgeon in xx"? If so, you are likely to be captured by keyword bidding. Plastic surgery institutions are very familiar with the habit of becoming beautiful online, and the common search words used by women with plastic surgery intentions are also the words that these institutions spend a lot of money to get themselves in front of search results. You know, medical advertisements contribute half of the profits of the largest search engine company in China. Plastic surgery institutions are very willing to package their doctor status into what you want to see. Most of the information you find online is pure advertising, and there is usually no evidence to prove their experts' "expertise". Of course, you can find many "* * first people" and "* * association members" on the Internet, but what you really need to know is 1) the hard facts about the surgeon's qualification certificate: education, training and professional certification, and 2) the evidence record of the surgeon's experience-not just the surgeon's claims, but the records published by the surgeon in authoritative scientific journals to support these claims.
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When we are sick, especially when we are seriously ill, we all know to go to a big hospital because there are the best experts in the big hospital, but when it comes to plastic surgery, this experience is very problematic. This should start with the development of plastic surgery industry in China.
In the United States, excellent plastic surgeons and doctors will go out to practice privately, but social capital is not allowed to enter the plastic surgery field. So there are no private plastic surgery hospitals in America. The United States only chooses surgeons, not plastic surgery hospitals. Although doctors all over the world are in private practice, it is extremely difficult for doctors to open clinics in China. On the contrary, it is easy for social capital to enter the plastic surgery industry.
I know that many people who are interested in plastic surgery prefer public plastic surgery hospitals, but in fact, there are few real public plastic surgery hospitals in China, and most of the plastic surgery departments in public plastic surgery hospitals may be privately contracted, so the experience of "big hospitals = good doctors" may not be applicable. Of course, if you can find a real public plastic surgery hospital or a plastic surgery department that is not contracted by a public hospital, their expert qualifications should be no problem, but all these plastic surgeons who became monks in China studied in those hospitals, and the doctors who have studied will also operate in these real public hospitals (hospital names are abbreviated). Therefore, if you don't carefully examine the qualifications of hospitals and doctors, and casually choose public top-three hospitals, military hospitals or private plastic surgery hospitals, then the star "experts" who will operate on you and the organizing Committee of XX Association may already be general practitioners, dermatologists, gynecologists, otolaryngologists, dentists, general surgeons and even nurses. You said impossible? There are many "experts" who have become monks halfway, and some doctors who have not obtained the "three certificates" are doing cosmetic surgery every day. In addition, there are all kinds of "masters" from 6-day training courses in various studios opened by private houses.
The reality is that patients see an advertisement or hear a name, consult a plastic surgery institution and book an operation that will change their bodies forever. When they do this, they have never investigated the qualifications of surgeons, never seen another surgeon, never learned about the operation they are considering, never confirmed the experience of surgeons, and even saw the surgeons on the operating table for the first time, or even never seen a surgeon.
When bad or even catastrophic results occur, it is incredible that many patients are allowed to operate on them repeatedly with surgeons-they usually never seek other opinions or study the surgeon's certificate! When the situation gets worse with each reoperation, someone or something must be blamed in the end. In my 20 or 30 years of practice, I have seen hundreds of such cases, but I rarely see any patient who blames himself for not doing his homework because he chooses a surgeon.
Many patients spend far more time buying a car than choosing a plastic surgeon.
This is your own body, and you will look at it all your life.
It is your job to choose your surgeon. If you neglect your responsibility, don't complain in the future.
To ensure the best effect, the most important thing you can do is to choose your surgeon.
How to choose a plastic surgeon?
The first step is to understand how a surgeon is educated and what all kinds of certificates mean. What certifications do plastic surgeons have to go through? What do you mean by "Physician Qualification Certificate", "Physician Practice Certificate" and "Medical Beauty Attending Physician Qualification Certificate"? Who will be certified?
Some certificates are valuable; Many certificates are worthless. Once you know the basic credentials, you can collect a series of surgeons with gold certificates. Then you will need to jump from health department certification to other useful information to shorten the list. After you shorten your list, you can start calling the plastic surgery agency for information. Your final decision and surgeon's choice should be a combination of 1) qualification certificate, 2) the quality of information you get (written and oral), and 3) your experience in consultation. The following is to introduce the qualification certificate of plastic surgeon and other useful tools to help you start looking for a surgeon.
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Since many people have no patience to read a long article, you should at least know what is not enough for choosing a surgeon.
The cost of this surgeon is much less. Generally speaking, you get what you pay for, but even if the price is higher, you should check the doctor in charge, because the doctor you pay a high price may not even have the qualification to practice medicine! The surgeon said that he was selected as "the best in this city" by a certain media or website. The space provided by media or websites for surgeons is largely based on the advertising fees spent by hospitals or doctors in magazines. Voting the "best doctor in a certain industry" can be manipulated by surgeons or other doctors, health care organizations or companies (to make their doctors look good), or magazines themselves can please their surgeon advertisers. I heard at a party or QQ group that the surgeon was very good. A large number of patients who think they have perfect results may not realize how good results they can have if they don't do more research and homework before plastic surgery. Or, you must remember that Toto is everywhere. A friend of mine had an operation with this surgeon, and she was very satisfied. If you don't ask how long it took her to recover, how many secondary operations she may have had, and how long she has had the operation, you won't really know. I saw the surgeon on TV. Seeing a surgeon on TV can rarely prove anything unless the surgeon appears on a credible educational channel, and plastic surgery institutions or surgeons can't control the content of the program. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Which is important to choose a surgeon? ===================
Complete three certificates
In China, plastic surgeons must first have professional qualification certificates, that is, doctors' certificates and practicing doctors' certificates, which are issued by the Ministry of Health of China. In addition, the provincial health departments may stipulate that plastic surgeons must have the certificate of medical beauty attending physician (regulations vary from province to province, and some provinces may not have such regulations). These three certificates are necessary for plastic surgeons in Guangdong Province. (Foreign doctors who come to China for short-term medical practice must also obtain the License for Short-term Medical Practice for Foreign Doctors. For detailed laws and regulations, see: Measures for the Administration of Medical Beauty Services; To confirm whether a surgeon is qualified for practice, you can inquire on the website of the Ministry of Health: information inquiry of doctor's practice registration.
How can I find a plastic surgeon with complete three certificates? When you choose a plastic surgeon with complete three certificates, this surgeon is certified by the national and provincial health departments. This means that doctors graduate from recognized medical schools and have completed at least five years of additional residency training, which is usually three years or equivalent to three years of general surgery and two years of plastic surgery (many people have completed six to eight years of residency training). In order to be certified by the national and provincial health departments, surgeons must also practice for 2 years and pass a comprehensive written and oral examination.
According to the latest regulation of Guangdong Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission (20 14), plastic surgeons with Guangdong Medical Beauty Attending Physician Qualification Certificate "should have more than 6 years of clinical work experience in cosmetic surgery, plastic surgery and other related majors after practicing registration". Details: Notice on Printing and Distributing the Administrative Measures for Qualification and Practice of Medical Beauty Attending Doctors of Guangdong Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission (Trial)
Surgical experience
Can I guarantee that you have all three certificates? Not necessarily. Plastic surgeons with complete three certificates do all kinds of plastic surgery. Some focus on reconstruction surgery, some focus on cosmetic surgery, and some are both. Experience is very important, but there is no such thing as how much experience can guarantee a doctor to be a good surgeon, or how much experience can guarantee the effect of the operation. Moreover, you must know that the more you look at it, the more experienced you are, because this doctor may have just switched to plastic surgery.
Regarding experience, you can ask the surgeon some specific questions during the consultation, such as "What percentage of your business is xx surgery? How many xx operations do you do every year on average? " If you fully understand the operation, you will be able to quickly judge a surgeon's experience in this operation.
When you get the answer, think logically. For example, many plastic surgery institutions advocate that their experts do tens of thousands of breast augmentation operations a year. If you make a simple division, you will know that this is completely nonsense.
Personal expertise
Every plastic surgeon has his own more professional operation, because he is doing this operation every day, and he is usually more experienced. A few doctors even give up other operations and concentrate on one operation. Better at some kind of surgery, he may have other certificates. Ask to see his resume. The resume should list in detail the training of the surgeon and all the professional activities that the surgeon has completed. See how many professional reports this surgeon has made, how many courses he has taught other surgeons and how many professional papers he has published. Ask him if he has a personal website and check the content.
Then it is very important to check the moisture inside. Plastic surgery institutions always package their experts as you want to see them. You just need to make a phone call or search online. You can easily see through most gimmicks, but few people will do this kind of work.
school achievement
The resume of the surgeon should list the professional introduction and academic achievements of the surgeon. If a surgeon has not published a professional paper in a medical journal, can't a doctor do a good job? Or that a doctor has a lot of academic achievements, does it mean that he has done a good job in surgery? Absolutely not. The academic level is not necessarily consistent with the quality of surgery, and the gold content of the paper is different from that of the paper. You should have heard of academic corruption in China. The academic corruption in plastic surgery is no different from other disciplines, so what is really valuable is the top international plastic surgery magazine.
But it is still meaningful to check academic achievements, which can easily help you identify many self-proclaimed "experts". You can see on the website of plastic surgery institutions that hospitals or their doctors claim to have created some kind of technology. In this case, you just need to ask him to provide the index of the paper, and you will know the truth after a try. I can tell you for sure that most of those so-called new technologies are unfounded concept hype! Look, a simple check can avoid the operation of buying radish at the price of ginseng.
What if doctors or hospitals can provide papers? Then it is necessary to review the gold content of the paper. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS) is the most authoritative magazine in the field of plastic surgery, with the largest circulation among surgeons all over the world. PRS magazine is one of the professional medical journals with the strictest standards and review process in plastic surgery industry.
Other authoritative surgical journals include Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Yearbook of Plastic Surgery and British Journal of Plastic Surgery.
How to search English SCI papers? You can go to the National Biotechnology Information Center (NCBI) and download the papers to the following common databases:
OVID:OVID: Welcome to Ovid (for my personal use). Elsevier science: sciencedirect. com sciencedirect: sciencedirect. com ebsco: host login Blackwell: Wiley online libraryspringer: home-springer thieme: thiem. EMedical Publishers Ingenta: Publishing Technology If a surgeon can publish papers in these magazines, it means that the quality of the surgeon's ideas has been recognized by his peers, who have strictly examined the surgeon's ideas and experience. Domestic plastic surgery magazines do not have such authority. However, some surgeons have high academic innovation ability, but they are not good at publishing papers in English core journals. But in any case, first-class papers are published in foreign languages, and second-rate and third-rate papers are published in Chinese core journals. This is a common situation in medical (physics, chemistry) majors.
As far as plastic surgery is concerned, the important Chinese periodicals are Chinese Journal of Surgery: Chinese Journal of Plastic Surgery > Chinese Journal of Medical Beauty.
How to check Chinese papers? Commonly used databases are HowNet and Wanfang:
China HowNet Wanfang Medical Network-Medical Journal (for my personal use) can search papers. These databases can be used, but it costs money to get the papers. You can buy a database account on a treasure for more than ten yuan a month, or you can spend more than one hundred yuan for permanent use. It's definitely worth spending this little money. You can download Chinese and foreign medical papers at will. The method was told me by a medical student. I won't talk about the specific database. If necessary, please trust me privately.
social service
In the title of "Surgeon", we can see various associations and awards, some of which are meaningful and some are similar to the "UN Habitat Award". What you need to know is that anyone can register for a beauty association named "Asia", "Korea", "Japan" or "World". Some plastic surgeons even fabricate associations that don't exist, and beauty seekers often don't review them.
The formal plastic surgery associations in China are: Plastic Surgery Branch of Chinese Medical Association, Plastic Surgery Branch of Chinese Medical Association and China Plastic Surgery Association.
If you don't know the meaning behind various associations, then cut these titles from the surgeon's resume. These titles do not guarantee whether he is an excellent surgeon.
A friend recommended it.
Your friend's advice may be significant or meaningless! It depends on how much this friend knows and how much her surgeon teaches her. If a friend of yours is very grateful to her doctor, ask why, and try to judge how much your friend knows about the operation you are going to have.
If you know this friend online (such as QQ group), he keeps showing how good his surgery is and keeps passing through a plastic surgeon (hospital), please be careful.
If your friend is a beauty shop owner, I hope you will be more careful. Many beauty salons take a certain intermediary commission to bring customers to plastic surgery institutions. Guess who pays these extra commissions? Plastic surgery hospital? No, you!
Online information
The doctor information you see online, the doctor profile you see on the website of plastic surgery hospital and the doctor profile you see on other websites are basically soft articles or advertisements published by plastic surgery institutions themselves. What you see is that this information is not supported by the records of peer-reviewed scientific publications, which really measure their ability compared with other surgeons.
Now, the network has become a space for plastic surgery hospitals or surgeons to promote themselves, rather than a resource for patient authentication information. The answers you get from "free" online search are actually advertisements or soft articles presented by plastic surgery institutions at a high price. In most cases, some large private plastic surgery institutions spend millions of dollars every month to "buy them to rank in websites or search engines". The money doesn't necessarily correspond to the surgeon's skills or real experience, but in the end you will pay for it.
You should be careful of any information you read on any website, unless it is supported by conclusive facts, which record the qualifications and experience of surgeons, especially peer-reviewed scientific publications in indexed scientific magazines such as PRS magazine.
Please refer to: Is there a trustworthy cosmetic hospital in China? -Wang Shihu's answer.
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PS: I think I have covered this answer, whether it is brainstorming or non-brainstorming, but there are still many friends who still don't know where to start after reading all my articles. After private communication, I found that many people don't need methodology, but want you to tell them the answers such as hospital/doctor word-of-mouth ranking directly. Sorry, Baidu, such as "Top Ten Plastic Surgery Hospitals Ranking" or "No.1 in XX", has already been ranked. You can find out by searching. I don't have the ability and qualification to do this ranking, and I don't know which institution has enough authority and credibility to do this ranking. So, if you don't want to think about it, just want me to recommend specific doctors and hospitals, then I will volunteer to make a small advertisement-I am the best plastic surgeon, come and see me.
"Lack of knowledge of decision-making is often flawed. The best decisions require knowledge. The more you know, the better choices and decisions you make. The better decisions and decisions you make, the more likely you are to get a good result. " —— Wang Shihu, Dean of Guangzhou Junmei Medical Beauty/Beauty Attending Physician, please pay attention to my WeChat subscription number "WSHPlastic" or "Plastic Surgeon Wang Shihu" in Weibo.