Inspired by the Dr. 90210 thread...

[sleepyone]

If you're going to have plastic surgery done, please research the procedure and most importantly your surgeon.

Did you know that Dr. Robert Rey isn't a certified plastic surgeon? Look under his credentials here: http://www.ienhance.com/physician/page3_training.asp?DocID=56260

If you need CPR while you're on his operating table, you're all set. He can give you basic life support!

He is a current memeber of the Screen Actors Guild, though.

 

[Disney-Kim]

His credentials/schools looked pretty decent I thought???

He has to be a member of SAG because of the show.

 

[disneynutt1225]

Um...doesn't this mean he's qualified:

Diplomate - National Board of Medical Examiners

 

[sleepyone]

Uuhhh...


Definitions of medical examiner on the Web:

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• A physician officially authorized by a governmental unit to ascertain the cause of death. Unlike a coroner, the medical examiner (ME) is always a physician.
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• A government official, usually appointed, sometimes a medical doctor, who has a thorough medical knowledge and whose function is to perform an autopsy on bodies dead from violence, suicide, crime, etc., and to investigate circumstances of death, especially when sudden, unnatural or mysterious. An older, roughly equivalent, term is Coroner.
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• A physician who performs an autopsy when death may be accidental or violent. He or she may also serve in some jurisdictions as the coroner.
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• coroner: a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes
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• A coroner is the presiding officer of a special court to investigate deaths that occur under unusual circumstances where conventional criminal proceedings are not immediately called for.
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&hs=HHU&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&oi=defmore&defl=en&q=define:medical+examiner

 

[disneynutt1225]

http://www.nbme.org/programs/nbmecert.asp

ETA: and there's this one from that same site

http://www.nbme.org/about/about.asp

Notice, they are not "medical examiners" as coroners.

 

[grinningghost]

I don't know about his credentials, but the guy does do some nice work from what I've seen.

 

[Amapola]

I can't stand the guy, so I'm not out to defend him but his training certainly qualifies him as a plastic surgeon:

General Surgery: Harbor - U.C.L.A. Medical Center, 1995
Plastic Surgery: University of Tennessee Medical Center, 1997
Aesthetic and Breast Reconstruction Fellowship: Harvard Medical School, 1998

He is not, however, board certified in his specialty, but he does have the academic/training background.

 

[zalansky]

I can't stand him or his emaciated wife either, BUT a friend of a friend who lives in Tampa actually flew out to have him do her breast augmentation and they did turn out perfectly, from what I've heard.

 

[Mishetta]

I thought I read once that you just have to be an MD to perform plastic surgery?

I'm not that crazy about him either but he seems to do good work. I just wonder if he's had any unhappy patients too though?

 

[Sleepy]

I just wonder if he's had any unhappy patients too though?

Yeah, the porn actress who wanted implants, but he refused to operate on her because she refused to stop smoking. Just wondered if that was for ratings though.

 

[clarabelle]

smoking really can compromise healing -plus all the respiratory stuff can cause some complications with anesthesia.
I wonder why he doesn't get certified?
DH is a family doc -and their certification is a test and a fee every I think 6 years. Its not an easy test -but not incredibly difficult. There are also classes you can take to prepare for it if you are concerned. I wonder if it is really complicated for a plastic surgeon.

Personally I don't like Dr. Reys personal style. Kind of flasy and pimp-ish (is that a word?)

 

[Shelby5514]

Personally I don't like Dr. Reys personal style. Kind of flasy and pimp-ish (is that a word?)

I don't mind him one way or another but he does dress like a pimp/mac daddy in the newer shows.

 

[Mari annie]

I have watched the show two times.

Looks like he does great work.

I wouldn't personally go to him, he's too arogant, self absorbed and I couldn't imagine scubbing for him!!!LOL!
Ego maniac, he does it for himself, looks like he is "afraid" of getting old.

The only person on there that has any humanitiy seems to be the woman plastic surgeon.
The others are too into BH and their selfish lives.

to each their own.