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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
BEFORE HAVING PLASTIC SURGERY
Spencer Aronfeld
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 Dear Client:
About ten million Americans will have plastic surgery. More than a few patients are reporting problems.
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. Don't let this happen to you.
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1. Make sure you doctor is licensed and has valid insurance..check your state's licensing board or go to 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. Amazing.
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 should lasts no longer than four and one-half 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 an art as well as a science. But some practitioners have only taken a weekend course before seeing patients. This often leaves a patient with "divots" in the flesh, spots where too much fat was removed.
8. Only use a doctor that is Board Certified in Plastic Surgery. This means he or she has met the vigorous standards of the profession.
9. Shop around. "If you get any pressure about a 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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Need Justice?
Your team: Rosa Romero, Katiuska Batista, Spencer Aronfeld, Esquire, Patricia Sequeira, David Baroff, M.D.
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| For a FREE CONSULTATION please call 305.441.0440 or email: aronfeld@aronfeld.com |
 Spencer Aronfeld
Attorney at Law
3132 Ponce de Leon Boulevard
Coral Gables, Florida 33134
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