Chatham Donn R
Chatham Facial Plastic Surgery, Louisville, KY, USA.
Facial Plast Surg Clin North Am. 2008 May;16(2):207-16, vii. doi: 10.1016/j.fsc.2007.11.016.
Many different people present to the surgeon for possible elective procedures, but not all of them are suitable patients. Learning to identify possible problematic patients before surgery is a valuable survival strategy in the profession of plastic surgery. In this article, an "animal model" is used whereby patient and physician "species" are presented in a lighthearted tongue-in-cheek manner but also in a practical sense.