From: Ahab
Date: 12 Jun 2001
Time: 08:21:04
Remote Name: 64.24.41.18
You're right that anybody with a modicum of intelligence and dexterity can be taught simple surgical techniques.
However, if something unforseen occurs during a procedure, it's nice to have a guy who has the training and experience to recognize an unexpected problem and who can do something about it.
I've had transplants, and they were done by a doctor and his "technicians."
After cutting me, the doctor would not pay close attention to what happens later.
After I arrived home the day the bandages were removed, I noticed that unlike fomer sessions, the skin in the area that recieved the newly transplanted hairs, was black and blue.
Realizing this meant a lack of oxygenated blood to the area of the grafts, I called the clinic to ask if this were a bad sign.
The technician assured me that discoloration was normal, and seemed deaf to my observation that I had never seen THIS kind of discoloratin before.
He assured me it was OK.
After months of waiting, almost none of the hairs from that transplant session grew.
The doctor had not taken a close look after the techs had inserted the grafts, and had not been present the next day when the bandages were removed and I was sent home again.
Had the doctor been involved in every step, he might have realized that for some reason there was trouble afoot and might have been able to do something to enhance circulation to the area.
In the hair transplant field, "technicians," really do most of the work (SCANDALOUS!)--the doctor simply does the cutting (DISGRACEFUL!).
HM "clinics" get away with this because once again, the public does not consider baldness and attempts to remedy it important enough to demand monitoring by the AMA.
The AMA must not consider it important, either.
There was one transplant office in the New York City area where after closing time, one long-time "technician" was caught on film doing entire procedures all by himself on a patients who paid him directly.
The video taping came about when the doctors who ran the clinic noticed supplies disappearing, and thought somebody was stealing stuff, so they set up a camera.
There were more than one technician involved, I believe--but the main one turned out to be a garbage man by profession (yes folks, I do mean someone who works for the NYC sanitation garage--where they keep garbage trucks) and was working as a transplant tech part-time.
Also and for different reasons, this same HT clinic is being sued for hundreds of millions in a class-action law suit--but I digress.
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