Discrimination by Patient: Tell Us Your Story

Plastic Surgery Resident is a quarterly publication created by the editors of Plastic Surgery News and Young Plastic Surgeons Perspective specifically to meet the needs of plastic surgery residents. The magazine offers career tips, recommended journal articles, CPT coding information and practice management topics that aren’t often included in a plastic surgery training program.

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* 1. Please describe any patient-based incident(s) of discrimination that you’ve experienced, such as disparaging remarks toward you by a patient, or a patient request for another physician. You may describe the scenario and when it arose; the patient; your reaction; and the outcome, if you please. The resulting Plastic Surgery Resident article is being designed to aid residents in dealing with such toxic environments.