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🚩 3 RED FLAGS When Your “Plastic Surgeon” Shows Up on Instagram First: excellent doctors come from many specialties. The red flag is NOT someone being an otolaryngologist, dermatologist, ophthalmologist, or another type of physician. 🚩 The red flag is when patients cannot clearly understand what that doctor actually trained in and is distracted from this information. Why does The Maercks Institute keep discussing this? Because we routinely meet patients who believed they chose an expertly trained plastic surgeon, only to discover after an unfavorable outcome that their surgeon’s foundational training was actually in another field. Plastic surgeons have complications and bad outcomes too, we just posted our worst for The Maercks Institute. Certification guarantees neither artistry nor perfection. But training matters. Transparency matters. Judgment matters. So… 3 red flags: 🚩 1. Endless authoritative camera lectures If someone’s feed is mostly convincing you how brilliant they are or how wrong everyone else is, look deeper. Where are the patients? The results? The transparency? And yes, Dr. Maercks is currently talking assertively into a camera. 😂 🚩 One for him. 🚩 2. “DOUBLE/TRIPLE/QUADRUPLE BOARD CERTIFIED!” Ask one simple question: Board certified in WHAT, and by WHOM? “Board certified” does not automatically mean certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Patients deserve to know exactly what those credentials mean and providers should be proud of their chosen training pathway.. And since Dr. Maercks is now lecturing about board certification… 🚩 That’s two for him today. 😂 🚩 3. “SPECIALIST” Performing one procedure repeatedly is not the same as completing foundational specialty training and then refining expertise within that field. Ask: What residency did you complete? What board certifies you? What additional training did you receive? None of these automatically means someone is a bad doctor. They mean: 🚨 LOOK DEEPER. Social media has made confidence incredibly easy to manufacture. Competence takes considerably longer. Stay curious. Ask questions. Know who’s ope