Doctor-Patient Relationship with Your Cleveland Cosmetic Surgeon
When you decide to undergo a Cleveland cosmetic surgery procedure, you usually have a mental image of how you want to look after surgery. Unfortunately, sometimes that mental image doesn’t mesh with the reality of your body structure or skin condition. Beyond superior technical expertise, your cosmetic surgeon should have several critical abilities that, while difficult to articulate, ensure the patient’s satisfaction with the results of her cosmetic procedure:
A board-certified plastic surgeon like Dr. Vicente Poblete offers his patients:
- The empathic ability to listen to their desires and share the vision in their minds’ eye.
- An understanding and appreciation of the intense emotions that often drive the decision to undergo cosmetic surgery.
- An intimate knowledge of the complex structures that lie beneath the skin; how each part affects the whole; and how muscle, bone and skin can be molded and shaped.
- The ability to gently guide patients to decisions that will best achieve the results they desire.
When they walk into a cosmetic surgeon’s office, most patients believe they know what they want. They may ask for breast augmentation or a tummy tuck or facelift. Their mind is filled with the image and possibilities of a 20- or 30-year-old body. They rarely realize the normal changes in skin elasticity, muscle memory and tendon flexibility that occur with age. If the surgeon performs the procedure requested, there is a good chance that the patient will be disappointed in her results once the euphoria fades.
When Dr. Poblete meets with patients, he listens carefully for the image behind their words. To achieve the desired results, he may recommend a combination of procedures or a different procedure to achieve the desired results. Just as Dr. Poblete listens to his patients, his patients have learned to listen to and be guided by his expert advice. It’s that respectful relationship between doctor and patient that has made Dr. Poblete one of Cleveland’s preeminent plastic surgeons.