September 26th, 2008 Dr. John Millard
Dr. John A. Millard was featured on Dr. 90210 with Dr. David Matlock performing Vaser Hi Def™. Dr. John Millard pioneered the Vaser® Hi Def Liposculpture or Vaser® Hi Def Liposuction procedure here in the United States.
Dr. Millard is a board certified Plastic Surgeon in the Denver, Colorado area. He has taught and performed the procedure to other surgeons throughout the World and United States including Dr. 90210’s, surgeon to the Stars, Dr. David Matlock. He was very excited to have performed the procedure along side of Dr. Matlock which produced a great result. Please check www.MillardPlasticSurgery.Com for more details.
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September 19th, 2008 Dr. John Millard
I want to talk a little more about the Advanced Body Sculpting Institute. As I mentioned before, I have a lot of teachers in my family. My brother, my cousin, two aunts and my grandmother all teach. My own teaching experience comes from the Institute, and I talked a bit about how I got established in my last post.
The Institute was formed because doctors needed a space to learn about liposuction, about how to look at the human body, and about proper surgical settings within a practice. I’m proud to say that, after less than four years, our Institute has managed to raise the bar for doctor education.
We have spent years developing a syllabus that was balanced, comprehensive, and on-point in addressing physicians’ needs. It’s important, from a medical standpoint, to make sure that every article or conclusion you reach as a doctor is supported by medical literature. It’s a bit like a legal brief; you can’t fly by the seat of your pants, but instead you have to expand on a body of knowledge that’s already in place.
Unfortunately, I found that too many other cosmetic courses were too willing to do just that. And it showed: for SmartLipo procedures, there used to be quite a few training courses offering physicians knowledge and expertise on how to use SmartLipo technology. However, the other courses fell apart, and today the Body Sculpting Institute is the only space in the United States where you can find a SmartLipo course.
We’ve been approached by other teachers, trying to start similar programs, who ask to use our syllabus. I believe that our syllabus is so in demand because of the quality and attention to detail we put in. And I’m glad to say that it shows.
The mission of the Advanced Body Sculpting Institute is to provide the latest and greatest in training, as well as to provide a thorough experience for new techniques and technologies. But the philosophy of the Institute has all to do with high quality of medical standards and patient care. It’s a philosophy I apply in my own practice, and it’s a philosophy I instilled in the Body Sculpting Institute. And it’s a philosophy we try to cultivate in every cosmetic surgeon who comes through the Institute, to think of oneself as a doctor above all else.
Wishing you good health,
Dr. John A. Millard
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September 18th, 2008 Dr. John Millard
I’ve been interviewed by many different media outlets, on many different media procedures. I’ve spoken with reporters from Extra to Entertainment tonight, and all the media attention has given me the opportunity to really think about how a cosmetic surgeon should interact with the media.
Because, let’s face it; the media drives a lot of our notions of beauty. We’re bombarded with pictures of perfect-looking men and women. And I’ve heard a lot of accusations, that the media can be a tool for exploitation and hype. Every day there’s a new miracle cure, or device. So what can I do, as a doctor, to make sure the media gets the right story?
My philosophy for media interviews is to try and get as much information to the public as I can, in the most concise form, as to what their options are. There’s a lot of media distortion out there, that’s true. I feel that my job as a cosmetic surgeon is to give the clearest and most detailed explanation of a new device or technique that I can. And when I do this correctly, I feel like the media is a really useful tool for patient education.
I do believe that media coverage of cosmetics can be a good thing. Let me give an example: I’ve had patients come to me after receiving a Vaser Hi-Def procedure from a different doctor, and the patients weren’t happy with the results at all. The doctors had said that they were familiar with the procedure, when they clearly were not. And it seems to me that these doctors weren’t deceiving the patients so much as they were deceiving themselves, by thinking they already knew what was, actually a cutting-edge procedure.
In this case, the patient suffers from a sub-standard result because of the doctor’s unfamiliarity with a new procedure. The patient, as well, was unfamiliar with the range of the doctor’s expertise in dealing with new procedures. A timely news story on the Hi-Def procedure could have prevented such an occurrence, by educating the doctors on what Hi-Def really is, and educating the patients as to what to expect from a Vaser-trained doctor.
That’s why I do believe in the power of media to inform the prospective patient, creating a safer environment for a more knowledgeable cosmetic consumer. And, in my experience as a cosmetic surgery expert for numerous media outlets, that’s why I also believe that the cosmetic surgeon has a key role to play in informing the patient through the media.
Wishing you good health,
Dr. John A. Millard
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September 4th, 2008 Dr. John Millard
Combining Teaching and Cosmetic Knowledge: The advanced Body Sculpting Institute
I come from a long line of teachers; teaching has been the primary profession in my family for the last three generations. So when I took the career path of a doctor, I kept my eyes open for how to integrate teaching with my own medical expertise. I finally found that opportunity with the Advanced Body Sculpting Institute .
I have a long track record of embracing breakthrough technologies, exploring new aesthetic devices and developing expertise on new techniques before many other doctors have the opportunity. So many times, I have been approached by cosmetic companies, which ask me to lecture on their behalf. And after participating as a teacher in several classes for new doctors, I realized there was a tangible need for improvement.
I remember when I came up with the idea of the advanced Body Sculpting Institute; I had just finished several lectures in Italy, Portugal, and the United States. I realized that there was both an opportunity and a need for doctors to have a place to go after residency, in order to learn how to us new technologies. Too many doctors are willing to assume that, after buying a machine, they will already have the necessary experience to use it. That would be like buying an airplane, and assuming you can pilot it!
About the Advanced Body Sculpting Institute
For that reason, I created the Advanced Body Sculpting Institute in September 2005. At first, the Body Sculpting Institute was such a new idea that we had to break through some barriers in order to establish it.
For example, most state medical boards don’t allow out-of-state doctors to practice. Since we wanted to bring cosmetic experts in from all over the world, you can see how difficult a problem that would be! We worked with the Colorado state medical board in order to make sure that we could bring in experts from outside the state to learn and to teach.
We also set up a national insurance policy dealing with malpractice issues for training purposes. This has never been done before, and logistical hurdles dogged us for a while. But we were undeterred: I strongly felt that doctors needed a space to learn new technologies, and I was unwilling to compromise on either safety or quality of teaching.
I want to talk a little more about the Institute in my next blog post; I really think education is incredibly important, so important that I can’t sum it up in just one blog post!!!
Wishing you good health,
Dr. John A. Millard
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