I'm at cosmetic surgery clinic on St. John Street which is just off Deansgate in Manchester. St. John street is Manchester's equivalent to Harley Street so there are several other surgeries and private medical clinics in the area. The clinic is in St Johns Chambers; it's a nice pleasant building and the clinic appears quite nice and modern. It is not over indulgent which I'm pleased about. I don't really fancy paying out extra money for my surgery just to fund lavish reception areas!
I give my name to the receptionist who seems pleasant. She asks me to take a seat in the waiting room. The waiting room is quite full. I didn't expect to see so many people. I take a seat and help myself to a complementary filter coffee. There's a large television screen mounted on the wall. It displays marketing information on cosmetic surgery and their current offers: "Breast enlargement £3,995 with £500 off for daycare patients". There's lots of other offers shown on other procedures. The actual hospital where the surgery takes place seems to be in Bromsgrove near Birmingham. The television screen shows images of the hospital and it seems pleasant enough.
The marketing information is on its third or fourth run now. I wonder when I'll be called in to be seen. More people arrive and the waiting room is now at capacity. Most people appear to have brought someone else along for morale support. One of the staff comes into the waiting room and hands out questionnaires. It's quite detailed. It asks about my contact details, my doctor's contact details, and there are lots of questions on my medical history. There's also a consent form. I take some time to fill all these out.
I look around the waiting room and see that there are framed press cuttings on the wall with patient recommendations. My confidence is growing but I'm wondering when I'll be seen; 40 minutes have gone by and there's still some others ahead of me. I go to the reception desk to hand in my questionnaire and try and find out when I'll be seen. The receptionist apologises and explains that there's been an accident earlier on the motorway which has held up the surgeon so all the appointments are running late.
Finally, I am called into the consultation room and the surgeon greets me. He seems friendly and pleasant. I'm glad to be seeing the actual surgeon, rather than just one of the medical staff. He asks me what I am looking to achieve and what my expectations are. After some discussion, he then asks politely to examine my breasts and looks at them from the front and from each side. He remarks that me breasts are uneven in size and that my nipples aren't symmetrical, in a nice way!
The surgeon tells me that I need both a breast uplift and an augmentation. Because I have little breast tissue, the implants would need to go under the muscle. He explained what the breast uplift procedure; basically cutting off my nipples and placing them higher up on my breasts. The surgeon also explained that I would have a scar on each breast under the nipple as a result of the procedure. He then showed me "before and after" pictures on his laptop of several patients who had undergone the breast uplift. This was really useful as I could see the results. My main concern was the scarring.
There was a lot for me to think about. There was the cost side of it because an under the muscle breast augmentation with a breast uplift at the same time, would be quite costly. Then there was the scarring to think about. What if I just had the augmentation without the uplift? I discussed this option with the surgeon and he advised that it would be likely that after several months, my nipples would probably sag and I would end up needing the breast uplift. This, of course, would be a second separate operation which would end up costing me more overall.
There was no sales pitch at all and I felt under no pressure. In fact, the surgeon advised that I didn't book yet and spent some time thinking about my options and what I wanted to do. I really appreciated this. I felt that I was getting good, impartial advice and what was best for me, rather than for the surgery's bottom line.
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