Why I don’t use drainage tubes in my tummy tuck procedures anymore.
Dr. Robert Shenker explains why he now prefers the drainless tummy tuck for his Kitchener-Waterloo patients. Surgeons, like other highly skilled technical professionals, are trained (at least in part) through an apprenticeship system. We spend many years studying, assisting, and operating with highly skilled and very experienced surgeon-teachers. We trust and respect those mentors, and we emulate them. Very often, we spend our whole careers doing exactly what we were taught to do during our residency programs. When asked why we do a particular procedure in a certain way, or why we make a decision about a certain maneuver, we … Continue reading