It’s becoming a group thing:
Gone are the days when patients slipped into a plastic surgeon’s office alone and sometimes in disguise for a consultation and, after the surgery, slinked away to a secret location to recover. Now, patients may arrive not only with a wish list of procedures they have seen on TV or researched online, but also flanked by parents, siblings, spouses or partners. Or the wild card: the friend.For some doctors, having a second person in the room can be extra insurance that the serious information they are trying to impart is being heard. But at times the consultation begins to feel like a shopping trip to Barneys.
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I went with a friend to her boob job appointment. It was a little awkward to say the least. She would hold up the saline boobs and ask if I thought they were too big. If I ever get asked to attend another plastic surgery appointment with a friend, I’m going to be busy that day.
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