From Right to Left Dr. Parsa, Dr. Terino, Dr. Pasquale
The Pan Pacific Surgical Meeting which is held biannually here in Honolulu Hawaii is well under way. The speakers are excellent consisting of local Plastic Surgeons and Surgeons from around the world. High lights of the conference range from Poetry Readings by Dr. Parsa in his native Farsi , to a poem written by Dr. Robert Flower in his absentia. Lectures were given by local surgeons as well international experts.
The lectures range from breast reconstruction techniques to facial implant surgery for cosmetic surgery. The attendance is good and people seem to enjoy meeting with old and new fellow surgeons. Last night we attended a talk sponsored by LifeCell and had dinner at local Japanese restaurant. This was a nice affair and the food was very good.
I always like these meetings as they are a time for plastic surgeons to share some common bonds and learn from each other. The field can be very competitive which is a good thing becuase it brings out the best for the public I believe. If we are all trying to do better than the next guy, then the public has the best of our efforts.
The fellow on my right is another Italian , Dr. Terino who has made a name for himself in facial implants. I was looking at his slides today and he has some impressive results. I have seen his books as well, but something about him showing his slides in person makes it more believable. He is also a very good friend of Dr. Robert Flowers now retired who was one of my mentors to some degree, These two are some of the greats of cosmetic plastic surgery along with Dr. Parsa.
Well I am not of the traditional academic bend like Dr. Flowers, Terino and Parsa all who write for journals and produce some very good research papers. I am more of a practical guy with good technique and can operate my self out of anything, so what I lack in academic prowess I think I make up in skill and hands on. Typical town verses gown type thinking perhaps.
I do have my academic time , teach some practical courses like facial nerve and face lifting in China, Buttock Augmentation in Korea, and other lectures in Japan invented some surgical instruments and taught some courses on the mainland USA. I have as well as lectured here in Hawaii as we all have. I also bring some younger surgeons in my office to show them the more practice approach to plastic surgery by hands on care. Yet I not care for writing for journals too much or books. I think because it is so time consuming, that I rather be in the operating room more and when not I prefer sports or working on the web. Yet thank God for the Dr. Flowers, Parsas and Terino s of the world to immortalize our knowledge in journals and books. If it was up to me and those like me, plastic surgery would regress in one generation into the dark ages, due to lack of suitable reading material. I suppose we could pass on the art by oral tradition and verbal history, but books are more efficient.
Well thats all for now.
Doctor808
Dr. Parsa above is of Iranian descent and what I call a gentleman’s genetleman. Perhaps that is why he has been Chief of plastic surgery at the Queens Medical Center for as long as I can recall. The rest of us are perhapsshall I say too “sporty”. His efforts are responsible for the meeting which is going along very well. So here in that picture you have three doctors from I -descent, two italians and an Iranian , could you call them I-doctors? Almost like a joke in way to me. What happens when an Irainian plastic surgeon and two Italian Plastic Surgeons are at a meeting? Well if you think of good punch line I will give you some free botox becuase I have no idea.
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