Making a decision
The core questions that apply whichever procedure is on the table: deciding, expectations, suitability, safety and terminology.
How a particular operation is done, and what comes before and after it, is not here but on that operation's own page.
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Questions to ask before deciding
Questions to put to yourself and to your physician: whose wish it is, timing, preparing for the consultation, comparing the options, and whether the decision can be deferred.
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What is a realistic expectation?
How the change expected relates to the limits of the procedure, what the research measures about satisfaction, and why that cannot be turned into an individual result.
- 8 min read
Who is it not suitable for?
Why an aesthetic procedure may be deferred, or may not be recommended: what an assessment looks at, and what allows a physician to say no.
- 11 min read
How do you verify a specialist?
The difference between a specialty title, a competence certificate and authority to perform a procedure; the routes available for checking physician and facility information.
- 10 min read
Patient safety
How consent works as a process, the team checks carried out around an operation, discharge information, and when not to wait.
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Glossary
Short equivalents for the medical, legal and research terms used in the articles on this site.