Why is plastics medicine?

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This woman is all over the news http://www.drjenniferwalden.com/

Seriously, why are taxpayers paying to support these people's education and training?
....Would you want plastic surgery to be carried out by people who AREN'T fully trained doctors?

As for uses for plastics that are not based on vanity, how about reconstruction after a traumatic injury or correction of a birth defect?
 
Because it is still medicine. You may disagree with cosmetic plastic surgery, but not everything they do is just cosmetic. I know someone who had their chin rebuilt after cancer... by a plastic surgeon. I read about another person who had a hole in their head filled in... by a plastic surgeon. Cancer patients receive breast implants after mastectomies... by a plastic surgeon. Some people need help losing weight, which can be achieved by using a plastic surgeon.

I believe all of these are ethical uses of medicine and should be covered by insurance.

Other uses, like breast enlargements and cosmetic surgeries, are not needed and most insurance doesn't cover it. If these people really want it, then they have to pay up front. The reason why I think this is still needed is that people would still get the surgeries if there were not plastic surgeons. They would just go to backyard clinics and get them done, with higher fatalities and infection rates. At least with plastic surgeons they get medical training and have the proper facilities to do these surgeries.
 
This woman is all over the news http://www.drjenniferwalden.com/

Seriously, why are taxpayers paying to support these people's education and training?

What exactly upsets you? The money? The fame? The superficiality? I can find you 3 threads from the last 2 days alone on SDN where people straight out say they are in it for the money/prestige. If you honestly polled SDN, I'm sure a significant fraction would take this woman's career path in a heartbeat.
 
What exactly upsets you? The money? The fame? The superficiality? I can find you 3 threads from the last 2 days alone on SDN where people straight out say they are in it for the money/prestige. If you honestly polled SDN, I'm sure a significant fraction would take this woman's career path in a heartbeat.
Agreed. Someone is selling a service that obviously many people are willing to pay top dollar for. It is just as legitimate as any other field of medicine, especially if the surgeon's practice does work for those who truly need their services, in addition to the big money elective "enhancement" cases.... Though they would be just as justified running a practice that exclusively performed elective procedures.
 
Why shouldn't it be?

They're surgeons, in an operating room, performing surgery on humans. Don't you think that should be a physician?
 
....Would you want plastic surgery to be carried out by people who AREN'T fully trained doctors?

As for uses for plastics that are not based on vanity, how about reconstruction after a traumatic injury or correction of a birth defect?

Exactly. I worked for a plastic surgeon whose primary work consisted of Botox and boob jobs; that being said, when it came down to a nose reconstruction for a motorcyclist hit by a drunk, I was extremely thankful he could help. I'm going to quote Scrubs on this one:

"Pumpkin, that's modern medicine. Advances that keep people alive that should have died along time ago, back when they lost what made them people. Now your job is to stay sane enough so that when someone does come in that you actually can help, you're not so brain dead that you can't function-for the love of God, what?" - Coxy
 
Seriously, why are taxpayers paying to support..

There are so many more legitimate arguments you could have entered following the statement above. In regard to this particular case, I've never heard of her before this but I think her credentials are impressive, she has taken the time to assume many roles along her career that were completely optional and many of them are providing support to future generations in her footsteps. When it boils down to it, there is a high demand for plastic surgery and this is America. The amount of taxpayer money that was used to support her during her training is minuscule compared to the amount the government will get back over her lifetime taxing her income.
 
This woman is all over the news http://www.drjenniferwalden.com/

Seriously, why are taxpayers paying to support these people's education and training?

What is this crap? Do you honestly think that the only thing that plastic surgeons do is boob job and feed other peoples vanity. Perhaps you have heard of reconstructive surgery, yeah plastic surgeons do that. So next time your walking in Miami and you happen to encounter a raging bath salted out guy and he starts eating your face you'll think gee I hope the guy that puts my face back on is a physician.
 
The sad thing is the OP actually created a new SDN account to make a troll post like this.
 
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