A Plastic Surgeon and an Early Adopter

I have been curious about new things since I was young, so I have always felt excited whenever new electronic devices appeared. Gathering up that excitement and anticipation, and then getting my hands on them just a little earlier than anyone else to try out their new features, gave me a catharsis and pleasure that is hard to put into words.

 

Before I knew it, I had become a plastic surgeon, sometimes wielding a scalpel to operate on patients suffering from illness, and at other times performing surgery to further improve the appearance of healthy people.

 

Of course, as an early adopter, getting access to new civilization and culture before anyone else may be one of the common desires many people share.

 

I am also one of those people who, even if it means the inconvenience of carrying two phones, with a touch phone in hand and a newly released smartphone purchased as well, wants to experience that kind of fun as an early adopter.

 

But if the habits and desires of early adopters, or of people who follow trends, extend even to medical procedures performed on their own bodies, that can be a very dangerous idea.

 

Although the number is not large, I feel deep concern when I see a considerable number of fellow plastic surgeons introducing unverified procedures for differentiation and promotional effect, misleading ordinary people who are ignorant of medical knowledge with their words, and also carrying out dangerous procedures as if they were simple and easy.

 

A hospital is not a place for Maruta experiments.

 

And people receiving procedures should not make their own bodies the target of a road test for newly released products either.