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A recommendation from a friend arrives with something advertising cannot buy, which is a result somebody has already seen at close range for a year. It also arrives with an obligation. When a patient sends us her sister, we are being handed a relationship that predates us and will outlast us, and the cost of a disappointing outcome is no longer one person’s. We think about that more than we think about anything else. It is the reason for the small schedule and for saying no as often as we do.

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There is a popular shorthand for combined post-pregnancy procedures and we do not use it. It is a marketing word, invented to make a serious operation sound like an errand, and it describes the patient rather than the surgery. What we perform is an individually planned combination of procedures, most often an abdominal wall repair with a breast procedure, chosen for one body and one recovery. Language is not a small thing when someone is deciding whether to have an operation. We would rather be precise and a little dull.

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