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When Is Advertising a Plastic Surgeon's Individual "Brand" Unethical?
Carly P Smith1, Daniel George2
1A clinical psychologist and assistant professor of humanities and psychiatry at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Abstract:
Advertising a plastic surgery practice on social media is fraught with both practical and ethical challenges. We use an institutional betrayalframework to explore the range of potential harms to patient well-being while also considering the pitfalls of social media activity, especially marketing, for practitioners. We also give consideration to the relative benefits that such online patient-clinician relationships can provide. In our analysis, we draw on specific examples of plastic surgery procedures prominently featured on social media, including the Vampire Facelift®.