Ear Piercing

[irishpipes]

Originally posted by PM_Mama00
[color=deeppink]ETA: For those who like to assume.... I was NOT generalizing that ALL doctors are money grubbing. Just like in any profession, there ARE people out there for the money. But there are also MANY doctors who truly care more about their patients than the money they make.

I am not trying to get on your case, but I have to point out that it actually was you assuming that the doctor in question was money-grubbing when your advice to the OP indicated as much.

Yes, there are some money-grubbing doctors. The ones that come to mind are elective procedure plastic surgeons.

I will say, that in a million years I would not have thought of going to a doctor about getting my ears pierced or re-pierced.

[PM_Mama00]

Originally posted by irishpipes
I am not trying to get on your case, but I have to point out that it actually was you assuming that the doctor in question was money-grubbing when your advice to the OP indicated as much.

Yes, there are some money-grubbing doctors. The ones that come to mind are elective procedure plastic surgeons.

I will say, that in a million years I would not have thought of going to a doctor about getting my ears pierced or re-pierced.

I apologize if my point was made out to sound like that. Thank you for being respectful and not name-calling like I've already been! I just reread my first reply and saw that I said "doctors always". I probably meant to say "Some doctors always". My bad!

Back on topic I, too, never thought about asking a doctor about getting repierced but I guess it's good to be cautious. Also, I don't understand the ball of cartilage. Is it just the cartilage that grew back in or is there something else there?

[copacabana]

I had to have my ears repierced since I let my holes close...I never had any problems with it at all. It has been mentioned that a lot of generalizations have been made in this thread, which I think is true. If it were me...I'd probably talk to a second doctor. It's not that tattoo piercers don't know what their doing, but it's not like doctors went through med school for nothing! If you're still concerned about it after that, then I'd probably go see a tattoo piercing artist...I like getting a lot of opinions.

[BobbyTheDon]

Hmmm let me see. Whose opinion do I want? Guy who went to medical school for 4 years or Tiny from "Tough Guys Tattoo Parlor" with a Nude female that has a dragon covering her breast tatooed on his bicep.



Hmmm let me see. Whose opinion do I want. A practicing lawyer who went to law school for 3 years or GC?

Yeah fuck the lawyer. They just want your money! GC always gives sound honest advice!

[Buttonz]

My holes were uneven *I had them done as ababy* and I got them repierced wtihout a problem...same when I had to let my cartliedge close after it got infected...talking about that, the first time I did it with te needle and had issues, I got it done at Clarie's with the gun this time and I've been problem free

[IIOA]

As an internist, I can honestly say that body piercing has come up only once in the 10 years I've been practicing. The one particular case I am remembering was a person who had her tongue pierced and she developed an odontogenic infection resulting in my recommendation to remove the metal piece and put her on antibiotics.

I think what can be safely established is that there are reputable physicians just as there are reputable body art......uh.....technicians/specialists/artists? I seriously doubt, however, that their "liability" is as costly or as ethically significant in a medicolegal sense as my responsibility to give the best advice possible to my patients. I would also point out that the judgment of the innate "goodness" of advice given by a physician is due in large part to the personal agenda of the patient. For example, if a patient seeks advice on how to lose weight and, instead of receiving the diet pill he wanted, he gets a detailed discussion of the thermodynamics of caloric intake and practical solutions on how to diet and exercise - he might go home and tell his friends that that stupid doctor gave "bad" advice, simply because he the only "good" advice he recognizes is what he wants to hear.

P.S. At no time has anyone sought my opinion on ear piercings, and for that I am extremely grateful....

[dzfan]

Thanks guys for the advice! I think that I am goign to get a second opinion -- I had never heard of it either and I wanted to make sure I was not the only one. I am soooooooooo ready to have my ears pierced again