Doctor808 Plastic Surgeon Honolulu Hawaii

I read a lot of blogs about Plastic Surgery for many reasons. First ,  I like to keep in touch with the public opinions, what is hot and what is not in the field of plastic surgery and plastic surgeons. Second, I have a web design company and SEO  firm .In simple terms it is an Internet marketing/advertising company to promote business on the Internet. We handle  from design to promotion at 3d-plasticsurgery.com . So I need to know as much about blogging as is possible. How can I advise my clients if I  don’t know? The third reason is that I enjoy many of these blogs purely as entertainment.

Since I am an nternational plastic surgeon and my internet company is international,  in that we have capability for  multiple languages both in my plastic surgery office,  as well as web company ,  I read blogs in other languages.  Yet as my readers know, I barely can read some Romaji Japanese at this point, so how do I do that?  Well I use translations software.  On my Mac , I have a button on the browser that if for example I am reading  this blog:

「ハワイ美容整形外科」　豊胸・二重・脂肪吸引・フェイスリフト・フォトフェイシャル・レーザー脱毛・スキンケア

Which says something to the effect of Hawaii Cosmetic Surgery I click on my translate button and whoopee— its in english!  It is not accurate in Japanese , but I get the idea what the author is talking about. It works much better for simplified Chinese and European languages these are clearly translated . Unfortunately Nihongo is not so easy.

The blog to the left is about various aspects of Plastic Surgery in Hawaii, notably my practice. The  interesting issues about these Japanese Blogs is the bloggers. The culture it seems takes a more ” diary “approach to their blogs. They are heavily scattered with a lot of insight into the bloggers mind. I wonder if this is due to the nature of Japanese culture,  where there is the public face and then the face which is hidden. That means that there has been pressure on Japanese society to all stay within some very confined limits. The nail that sticks out,  gets hammered down so to speak. So the blog especially if anonymous or a written in psuedo-name. allows for greater freedom of expression.

On the other hand the American Blogs are more expressive of individualism it seems and its about the author and what he or she thinks should be said and DIRECTLY. As example , I will tell you I am the best plastic surgeon in Hawaii and perhaps the world (said with tonque in cheek) but the Japanese are more subtle and have a certain humble aspect so they would not say that.

If this is good or not,  you have to judge for your self , but I believe this is what I see when comparing the blogs by Japanese writers and American Writers about Plastic Surgery or other topics such as Hawaii vacations and the like.

Another aspect I note about American Blogs is they are usually very commercial, as many blogs are becoming. In my case of www.doctor808.com which is a mixed plate of Web stuff , Plastic Surgery, Travel and Muay Thai I tend to simply bring the reader into various aspects of my life so they can perhaps figure some of these things out how they help. I also enjoy entertaining and as my readership continues to grow I get more comments to my email.

Yet there is a commercial aspect to this blog as well. It is one I have discovered indirectly which does help with my internet company. That is the value of blogs to help gain ranking in google. This is pure advertising but it works great. Some SEO blogs really give the reader nothing in return meaning that their purpose is to gain rank or clicks and earn accordingly. It is well documented that this adds to how well a web site will rank in google. As mentioned in an earlier post about ethics of some these internet companies I strongly disagree with the making your blog for pure commercial benifits as does google. So I think of it more as two way street. I try ot bring good information, written by me as well as entertainment to my readers. In return my blog becomes valuble and the commercial aspect comes with that. That is difference between my blog and the blogs my company promotes and the borderline fraud of some blogs out there who write nothing but keywords and seek to try and obtain rank only. They are rather ruthless with no redeeming value.

At any rate, I suppose my point is lets keep the internet clean to some degree and in doing so we can have our own interest in mind as well. You have to give to get I suppose and I dont think there is anything wrong with that. Yet taking all the time is another story I will save for another blog. Seems many Americans are turning into takers more than givers these days. It gets back to the golden rule of treat others as you would be treated.

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I usually work most Saturdays for one half a day.  Saturdays in Hawaii are good days. Mostly family day,  where the locals go to da beach and hang out eating lau lau or eating something else I do not like. After over 20 years here I am still such a Haole Boy.

So typically on Saturday,  as far as plastic surgery goes I see a few patients who are post procedure, and maybe a few new consults. Mainly Saturday is my catch up day from the busy week. I will look over patient charts, troubleshoot management issues. I will spend special time with staff to go over issues or train them the way I want. They learn from others many times in the practice and sometimes that means the wrong way. So Saturday is a good day to directly interact with my staff as their is less business to take care of and I have time.

A plastic surgeons office in Hawaii is a very interesting thing in that such a wide range of cultures and ethinic issues arise. We have Japanese from Japan, local Japanese, military from Texas , Vietnamese, Korean, British , Russian and on and on. Hawaii is like that and we as plastic surgeons we learn all the nuances of a multiplicity of cultures. This Saturday my receptionist was from main land china, other days my tech is from Japan, my other tech is Filipino and my other receptionist is Korean. This is required to deal with all the languages and cultural issues.

Today I spent teaching my newest receptionist who is from mainland china, she is smart so its easy. Saturday is generally a no surgery day so its easy., I saw all the patients myself and corrected some documentation. It was really a boring day…..but thats ok. I need that by Saturday in my plastic surgery office—now off to the gym.

As a plastic surgeon performing surgery for over twenty years I thought I had heard everything. Well a few years ago I was suprised. A 64 year old Japanese lady came in my office sit down at the consultation and I asked her how I could help. Without a blink or stutter she asked quickly ” doctor can you cut my nipples off?”. Well my first thought, great my receptionist let a mentally I’ll person through the gate. Every plastic surgeon has people come to their office who are better served by psychiatrist, but we all try to screen ahead of time. My receptionist is pretty astute so maybe she slipped up I thought.

Well after examination I noted the woman indeed had nipple length of 2 centimeters. So after all she was right. We preformed the reduction later and she was happy.

The punchline is I asked her why she waited till age 63? Her answer was she just left her husband of 40 year marriage and wanted to find a new boyfriend !