Surgery Done with Words, Surgery Done with Hands, Surgery Done with the Heart

For plastic surgeons, the methods of surgery can be broadly thought of in three categories.

 

Surgery done with words, surgery done with hands, and surgery done with the heart.

 

First, surgery done with words is often not so much the realm of a doctor as that of a con artist.

 

It is a case in which, during the consultation, the surgery is essentially carried out entirely with words.

 

Using pretentious eloquence, the actual surgical situation is dressed up differently from reality. Although this may sound appealing to ordinary people who lack medical experience, it often plants false hopes and leads to unhappiness after surgery.

 

Second, surgery done with the hands is sufficient only for a doctor as a technician.

 

If the process of placing a scalpel on the human body and performing procedures is done only with the hands, then it is worth thinking again about how happy one would be after going through such a process.

 

Third, surgery done with the heart is a virtue that we doctors must always keep in mind.

 

When performing surgery, we must always think about the fact that we are placing a knife against someone or carrying out procedures that may be harmful to the body, and about how precious and grateful the relationship is in which that person trusts us and entrusts their body to us. With that bond in mind, we should approach surgery with the wish that they will always be happy because of it.