I want to tell you about a client who came to me after everyone else had already made up her mind for her.
She had a lip deformity — the result of a silicone implant placed years earlier. She had done what most people do. She went to social media groups and asked for help. Hundreds of people responded. And almost every single one of them sent her to the same place — a surgeon with a massive following, an enormous volume of lip lifts and the kind of reputation that social media builds into an unquestionable authority. He was the one. Everyone said so. A competitor of mine, who charged her considerably more than I do, said so too.
Then she found me.
When she shared her story I listened carefully. I knew of this surgeon. And I told her something that nobody else had been willing to say: before I recommend anyone, I find evidence. Not social media posts. Not follower counts. Not the consensus of a Facebook group. Evidence that a specific surgeon has performed a specific procedure with documented, verifiable results.
So I went to work. I reached out to surgeons I trust and asked if they had ever seen this doctor correct this type of deformity. No one had. I searched everything I could find — his work, his history, his known areas of focus. I could not find a single example of him performing this correction. Not one.
I was, in that moment, the only person in her entire journey who was going to say no. And I said it. With evidence. With care. And without apology.
But I didn't stop there. Because saying no without offering a path forward is not advocacy — it's just an opinion. I kept searching until I found three surgeons who had considerable, documented evidence of correcting exactly this type of deformity with beautiful results. I brought all of it to her. I walked her through my findings in detail. And she finally felt something she hadn't felt since this journey began — that someone was actually in her corner.
The story doesn't end there. While speaking with one of my Collective surgeons about her upcoming face and necklift, I mentioned the lip deformity. He felt confident he could address it — and we spoke at length about why his background and expertise made him the right person for this specific correction. She is moving forward with him.
This is what choosing the right surgeon actually looks like. Not a poll. Not a popularity contest. Not the name that appears most often in the comments. It looks like someone doing the unglamorous, painstaking work of finding real evidence — and being willing to say the hard thing when the evidence isn't there.
"You deserve someone in your corner who will do that work for you. Someone who will say no when no is the right answer and yes only when they can prove why."
That is what I do. Every single time.
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