Dr. Anthony Youn
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And she was there for three days and never actually got a hospital bed, like a room.
She was in the hallway for three days.
Because there just weren't any rooms available because so many people are using the ER, unfortunately, for things that aren't necessary.
So there's a lot of stuff going on in health care right now that the whole system is broken and I'm not sure how to fix it.
But throughout my training, that was something that you really saw a lot of.
So basically the story is, is that I, you know, so I go to LA, I come back to Michigan, I start my practice and you know, we're taught in surgery, the term to cut is to cure, or the only way to heal is with cold steel.
And the idea is that your goal is to bring people to the operating room.
now if you're a general surgeon the goal ideally that the big surgery that you want to do is is called the whipple and this is a large 10-hour cancer operation and if you're so lucky that you can do a whipple you know you've reached the pinnacle of success in plastic surgery it's probably the facelift
because patients may trust almost anybody to do their liposuction, but you know if they're trusting you to do their facelift that you are the cream of the crop.
And so for many years, Bunny, I actually gauged the success of my practice based off how many facelifts I was doing, how many I had on my schedule.
It's kind of dumb, but that was how I gauged it.
And I got to a point where I was the busiest person in town.
I had a one year waiting list of people flying in all over the country to see me.
And then I had a patient of mine who absolutely completely changed the trajectory of my career.
This was a 60 some year old woman who came to see me for a facelift, and she looked like she was a good candidate for it.
Her internal medicine doctor cleared her for surgery, and then she was even cleared by a cardiologist.
So I perform the operation on a Thursday.
It's about a three and a half hour surgery.