Why Do You Prefer to Prescribe Propecia Rather Than Transplanting?
You have not made it clear why you would prefer to prescribe drugs for hairloss rather than a surgery. It is safer in every way to administer a hair transplant. Perhaps you realize that patients will opt out of treatment altogether since many men would never consider the very significant and costly method of pursuing a transplant?
I would use a non-surgical recommendation for a wide range of problems (e.g. many forms of heart disease, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, herniated lumbar disc). In some situations, I would recommend hair transplants as I get to know the patient if I am convinced that it is in his best interest. That puts the burden on the patient to convince me about his agenda.
I am not a plumber who is fixing a leaky pipe. I am a caring, responsible doctor who always does the best thing for his patient. Think about how strongly I must feel about this. I would rather offer a free consultation and then prescribe Propecia for a total fee to me of $85. My average surgical fee exceeds $5000… so I must really believe in the welfare of my patients to turn that down.
Thank you for looking out for us Doctor
Yes, I agree with Jeremy in that Dr. Rassman and Dr. Pak really look out for us. I mean everybody there at NHI are very friendly and polite!! Keep up the good work.
That’s like asking a cardiologist why do you prefer prescribing Lipitor and ACE inhibitors over bypass surgery.
Jeremy 2 – That is not a very helpful analogy. Hair transplants can be performed using local anesthesia and is a really simple operation whereas bypass surgery requires general anesthesia and is a much more complex, risky procedure. A hair transplant probably carries the same complexity/risk scale as something like a wisdom tooth extraction.
In a hypothetical world, if there was a possible medication you could take to stem the growth of wisdom teeth, I’m sure most people would opt for the simple procedure.
Jeremy, all operations are inherently risky, no matter how ‘simple’. I assume that you are not a hairline transplant doctor and have never operated on anyone, so I am more incline to listen to a real Doctor with years of experince.
Steven –
What do you mean, Dr. Rassman created this blog post to answer that very question?????
Eli – you are trying to be clever but you sound pretty unintelligent. There is a difference between connecting the drug to an obviously ubiquitous biological phenomenon and something that is exceedingly rare. When you have thousands of men complaining of a very rare condition very shortly after taking the same drug, the statistical likelihood that there is a causal relationship skyrockets.
Correlation does not imply causation.
What do you mean, Dr. Rassman created this blog post to answer that very question?????
Don’t see where I said that, Jeremy. Did I miss something?
LOL longest thread ever. Let’s just end it here. Let us agree to disagree.