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Tuesday July 11, 2006 ins: Cosmetic Surgery News
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It is not good to force anybody to do something that he isn’t sure about or has decided no to. The same goes for cosmetic surgery patients who have decided to cancel certain operations because they are in doubt or that they have simply changed their mind. However, this is not the case in the UK. This Life Style Extra article says so:
Plastic surgery patients are being pressured into going through with operations because they have to pay hefty non-refundable deposits, a leading doctor warned today.
Plastic surgeon Mark Henley slammed the growing number of surgical practices tying people into going under-the- knife for operations from nose jobs to breast enlargements because of the 'no-turning-back' deals.
When you are about to pay at most 95% of the total surgery cost if you cancel the appointment, then you might as well go through the operation. This is the logic that is at play here, and this is where physicians have been getting a lot of money.
Of course, this is not good and Henley strongly opposes this kind of practice.
It is my firm belief that patients should not feel obliged to carry on with a cosmetic surgical procedure that they are not 100 per cent comfortable with.
Surgery of any kind is too big a decision to be led by financial considerations and patients should enter into it for the right reasons – not because they may lose a large amount of their savings.
This is very true. The practice of pressuring patients to proceed with the operation by inflicting the fear of being financially penalized is absolutely not going to give cosmetic surgery a good name. Patients should be in total control of the whole situation and the decision to have cosmetic surgery should be based on their need to really have one, and not because of anything else.
On the other hand, patients should also make sure that before they sign anything, they are already very certain about the decision. That would save everyone from a lot of trouble.
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