I was watching a television documentary the other day about fake products such as the designer hand bags which fake the label such a coach, LV etc. I was amazed how many fakes were out there. The documentary stated it was a 2 billion dollar a year business. I reflected on this notion of these fake designer handbags and thought about fakes in medicine , business and life.
The other day I came across and interesting story about a mexican man charged with practicing medicine without a license. This fellow apparently was performing plastic surgery procedures in Miami Florida at a very good price. I do not know how many surgeries he performed, but one of the more interesting ones had to do with pectoral implants. Pectoral implants are made to make a mans chest look like he has muscles on his chest. This mexican felllow placed breast implants in some poor guys chest instead of pectoral implants. So when he woke up after anesthesia he had what looked like woman’s breast ! It always pays to check the credentials of the plastic surgeon you go to and not just go with cheapest I suppose.
I guess all fields of endeavor have fakes, you know like the man who was caught telling people he was in the Green Berets and was not. Seems this fellow went around to various military clubs and bragged about how he was with the 5 th special forces group (MAC-SOG) Vietnam Green Berets. Eventually he was invited to give a lecture to a group of young army soldiers at I believe a military base. At this larger gathering as I recall the story there were several members of the army green beret unit that he claimed he was there. Also these real Green Berets were in there at the same time he claimed to be there. So the Green Berets is a small outfit and very closely united so they would have remembered him and discussed this among themselves. Since they did not recall this fellow they went back and checked the records. He was no Green Beret, he in fact was not even in the Army but claimed he was. Another fake is found out …… you cannot get something for nothing.
There are many stories of wonderful doctors in small towns who helped the community. Then they were found out not to be doctors at all but may have had some medical training.
The point of all of this is one should make sure people are who they say are, before you get involved, you may suffer like the man in first story who woke up with woman’s breast when he was a man. He thought he was getting pectoral implants, but instead got breast implants. So doctors are easy to check credentials, I do not know how to advise you on others. Perhaps we need to get back to the days when people were introduced to each other by a reliable friend.
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