NYC Plastic Surgeon Blog

I just got back from an intensive five day conference in San Francisco entitled The Art of Rhinoplasty.  This course has been in existence for 47 years, all under the watch of Dr. Leslie Bernstein.  Dr. Bernstein is in his eighties and his enthusiasm for teaching his accumulated knowledge involving the nose to his pupils is electric.  I feel as though I was lucky to meet someone whose found his life’s passion.  Dr.

As the last ten years of my practice have quickly passed bye I’ve begun to make a conscious effort to write about the process of becoming, and being, a Plastic Surgeon.  I hope you enjoy what follows.

As physicians we go through many stages during our education and training.  Eventually when those years are behind us, we’re set free and for the first time able to begin shaping the kind of practice we had only dreamed about before.

More so than many of the other surgical specialties Plastic Surgery has two sides.  These are easily split into Cosmetic and Recons