2023-09-13 19:00:31
Gastric bypass is one of the bariatric surgery techniques used for some cases of morbid obesity, although not all patients are candidates.
For any health professional to offer their services on social networks, it is mandatory to have advertising permission from Cofepris.
A general practitioner who lacks a specialty is in trouble for offering the “service” of hypnotic weight loss surgery.
Medicine is an area based on science and its practice requires extensive training. It is no wonder because its purpose is to care for and attend to the health of other people. Unfortunately it is also a field in which there are many impostors and charlatans. A recent case that was reported on social networks was that of a doctor who offers a “hypnotic surgery to lose weight.”
Unlike other professions, it is impossible to be a doctor based on empiricism. Strict academic training must be complied with. In Mexico, the degree lasts seven years and covers both the theory that is learned at the university and the practice that consists of a year of internship in hospitals and another of social service.
All of the above is only to become a general doctor. In itself it is a great merit because all the graduates are in charge of first contact services in the clinics. In total, it is estimated that they are responsible for meeting 80 percent of patients’ needs.
On the other hand, there are also medical specialties and to access any of them it is necessary to extend the training. For this purpose, the National Examination of Aspirants to Medical Residencies (ENARM).
A plastic surgeon and a cosmetic doctor are not the same
With this in mind, surgery is one of the most delicate areas that exist due to its different consequences. To undergo an intervention such as gastric bypass To lose weight it requires a Plastic Surgeon although many patients confuse them with aesthetic doctors.
To be a plastic surgeon you must first complete the Bachelor of Medicine. Then you must fulfill the specialty of General Surgery which lasts four years and then the subspecialty of Plastic surgery spanning another three years.
For their part, there are some doctors who, after graduating from university, take courses in plastic surgery which only lasts a few months and many do not even have official validity. At the end they announce themselves as cosmetic surgeons although in reality they are not trained to carry out procedures or operations and all they achieve is put the integrity of the patients at risk.
“Alternative” doctor creates hypnotic surgery to lose weight and now could be fined by Cofepris
As an example of what should never happen, the Dr. Isaac Chávez Díaz shared the post of an “alternative doctor.” According to the advertising, the doctor named Alberto Medina offers the service of hypnotic surgery to lose weight.
Hypnotic surgery by “aesthetic doctors”. Worse things will come
The above is very serious for different reasons. To combat a disease like obesity, a multidisciplinary treatment is required but always based on scientific evidence. While for a surgery such as gastric bypass, a general check-up must first be done on the patient because not everyone is a candidate.
On the other hand, for any doctor to advertise their professional services on social networks, they must first request permission from Federal Commission for the Protection against Health Risks (Cofepris). The objective is to identify those who do have the academic training of the charlatans.
The treatment of Obesity is multidisciplinary, and without a doubt the mental component is important, but it is better to go to a psychologist and/or psychiatrist and not to a cosmetic surgeon who wants to hypnotize you for thousands of pesos. pic.twitter.com/rzx2Snylls
— Dr. Isaac Chávez Díaz (@DrChavezDiaz) September 8, 2023
Given all of the above, several doctors who do have the correct training have requested that the doctor who offers “hypnotic surgery to lose weight” be investigated because his service is irresponsible, does not comply with legal provisions and also puts patients at risk. .
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