David B. Reath, MD

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More than 60% of our new patients this year were referred to us by existing patients. Your confidence in us makes us proud. Thank you. We appreciate and welcome your referrals. Now more than ever, be sure that the doctor you choose for your plastic surgery is really a plastic surgeon. There is an alarming trend in east Tennessee that you need know about if you or a friend is considering plastic surgery. It is now common to find surgeons certified in other specialties performing plastic surgery procedures. Even more disturbing doctors, with no surgical training whatsoever, have begun performing and aggressively marketing plastic surgery procedures in their offices here in Knoxville.The first questions everyone asks when we warn them about this is, "Isn't there some kind of a law that prevents doctors from performing surgeries they are not trained to perform?" The answer is unfortunately no. It is not against the law for a doctor with only 4 years of medical school, and no surgical training, to set up an office and perform plastic surgery. And it is not against the law for a physician certified in another specialty such as family practice, or dermatology to begin performing plastic surgery. With the demand for plastic surgery increasing and insurance payments to physicians decreasing, it is likely we will see more, not less of this.

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