It seems that there is no longer collegiality amongst friends where completion is concerned.
I’m a board-certified General Surgeon and a board-certified Cosmetic Surgeon. I am even credentialed at our local hospital to perform cosmetic surgery.
There has long been a turf battle between the board-certified Plastic Surgeons and anyone else wishing to practice cosmetic surgery. Evidence of this is everywhere. All you have to do is see where Plastic Surgeons always say that the only qualified surgeons to perform cosmetic surgery are those certified by their board.
This is utter rubbish. During a standard 2 year Plastic Surgery fellowship a minimal amount of time is spent in cosmetic surgery, perhaps 6 months at best and then not full time. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is a vast field encompassing tissue transfer, hand surgery, facial and cranial reconstruction amongst others.
In my General Cosmetic Surgery fellowship I’m quite certain that I spent much more time learning and performing cosmetic surgery than any Plastic Surgery fellow. But they won’t tell you this.
I welcome any rational discussion of this topic. Sometimes I think this is a more west coast phenomenon than east coast.
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