Abstract: Ethics and Professionalism with Snapchat Use in Plastic Surgery
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INTRODUCTION: Recent data suggests 42 percent of surgeons report their patients are seeking aesthetic surgery to improve their appearance on Instagram and other social media.1 Despite the rising influence of Instagram in plastic surgery, few academic publications address Instagram, let alone evaluate its utilization in plastic surgery. We thus set out to systematically answer the following two questions: 1) what plastic surgery-related content is being posted to Instagram, and 2) who is posting this content?
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دوره 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017