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As an organized profession, plastic surgery struggles delivering a clear message regarding scope of practice to patients given the diversity of procedures performed. Whereas granting licensure to practice medicine resides with governmental bodies, certification rests with organizations. However, certification is not required to practice plastic surgery. Since plastic surgery operationalizes techniques rather than working within a defined body organ, competition for patients is intense. Mapping territorial interactions between healthcare providers while parsing taxonomy elucidates individual, community, organizational, and governmental levels, creating various selection pressures. Applying evolutionary biology as a framework predicts the termination of plastic surgery over time as a unique specialty. An entirely new domain, Restorative Healthcare, is proposed which circumvents an extinction outcome.
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