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"Formation of Health Plan Policy"

October 2024 | Vol. 68, No. 1
Written by 2d Lt Hailey Brenner, OMS-IV & Eric Chevrette, OMS-IV

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Health Plan Policy

 

From Head-to-Toe to Just Breasts

My Journey From Jack of All Trades to Master of One

October 2024 | Vol. 68, No. 1
Written by Ted S. Eisenberg, DO, FACOS

During my third year at PCOM, I attended an ENT lecture that showed dramatic before and after photos of rhinoplasty. I realized that I liked the immediate gratification of seeing a significant change. During my internship, I discovered that my hands worked. When I started my general surgery residency, I already had a career in plastic and reconstructive surgery in mind. It was the one area of surgery that combined my longtime interests in design and architecture.

After I completed my surgery residency, I began two years of an AOA-approved plastic surgery training that was unfunded because an official AOA plastic surgery program did not yet exist. To pay my bills during this time, I moonlighted in the emergency room: I worked ten 12-hour shifts a month.

Starting Practice

On January 1, 1985, I started practice. I didn’t have an office of my own. Five established PCOM colleagues around the Philadelphia area generously let me use their office spaces and secretarial staff at no cost. I had privileges at four area hospitals spread out from Norristown to Langhorne to Juniata in the Near Northeast of Philadelphia.

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