The Hospital Group Challenges Teenage Surgery-Seekers
Released
on: July 28, 2009, 3:48 am
Author: Rachel Phillips
Industry: Healthcare
Leading
cosmetic surgery providers The Hospital Group has helped inform
teenage surgery-seekers in a BBC3 television programme.
Two
thirteen-year-old girls undertook a week-long journey to decide
whether they really did want to take the plunge and have breast
augmentation surgery as part of the ‘Boob Job: My Big Decision’
programme.
The
‘grand finale’ of the week was a visit to The Hospital
Group’s specialist cosmetic surgery hospital in Bromsgrove.
During the week, the girls, Kianna and Kat, met women who had
already had surgery and quizzed a group of boys to find out their
views on breast size and the fake vs real debate. The girls also
had a session with a family counsellor to explore their motivations
for surgery plus a day’s work experience as a dancer and
a chef to get a taste of adult working life.
The
girls’ journey ended with an opportunity to sit in on a
consultation with a real-life patient and consultant surgeon Mr
Sulaiman, with the chance to pose all their questions to both
the surgeon and the patient. They then followed the patient into
theatre to experience first-hand the reality of undergoing a cosmetic
procedure.
Following
the experience, both Kianna and Kat decided that surgery wasn’t
the answer at this stage in their lives. Although Kat still intends
to have plastic surgery when she is older, Kianna
realised that she is still growing and larger breasts could hinder
a career in
dance. While The Hospital Group is one of the country’s
leading surgery providers, it remains stringent in its values.
David
Ross, Chief Executive of The Hospital Group, said: “We were
delighted to take part in ‘Boob Job: My Big Decision’.
The Hospital Group is a responsible surgery provider and we are
proud of our values. We have an extensive consultation process
prior to surgery to discuss the realities of surgery with our
patient – including what outcome they should expect as a
result of the surgery as well as the recovery implications and
the risks. Being involved in informing and challenging these two
young girls’ thinking was very worthwhile.
“Women as young as Kianna and Kat would never be treated
at The Hospital Group as we only treat patients over the age of
18. However, we do have interest from younger patients so this
was a useful educational process.”
The
Hospital Group’s role in ‘Boob Job: My Big Decision’
follows gastric surgeon Paul Super’s appearance on Channel
4 programme ‘The Hospital’, where he advised obese
patients on bariatric (weight loss) surgery.
Since
The Hospital Group was established in 1992, it has grown from
a small pharmaceutical company to one of the UK’s foremost
cosmetic surgery and weight loss surgery providers. The Hospital
Group is committed to providing the very highest standards and
all procedures are performed by an expert medical team in state-of-the-art
facilities that are second to none.
Contact Details: For further information of The
Hospital Group’s range of surgical procedures, surgery-seekers
should visit the website www.thehospitalgroup.org
or call our Patient Care Coordinators on 0845 762 6727.
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