Podcast Update 2024

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Welcome to Park Avenue
Plastic Surgery Class,

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the podcast where we explore controversies
and breaking issues in plastic

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surgery. I'm your co-host, Summer Hardy,

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a clinical assistant at Bass
Plastic Surgery in New York City.

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I'm excited to be here with Dr. Lawrence
Bass, Park Avenue plastic surgeon,

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educator, and technology innovator.

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The title of today's episode
is Podcast Update 2024.

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The podcast has completed
three full years of content.

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As we embark on a fourth year,

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it's good time to look back at
what the podcast has done and look

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forward to what we're planning.

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Before we get to that look and discussion,

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I have another announcement.

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The podcast has a new co-host.

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I'm delighted to introduce Summer Hardy.

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Summer is a clinical assistant
at Bass Plastic Surgery

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and will take over the job
of co-hosting the podcast and

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helping to elucidate the topics in
a manner that's understandable for

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laypeople. Summer, welcome.

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Thank you, Dr. Bass.

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I'm excited to be here and look forward
to helping our listeners learn about the

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fascinating world of plastic
surgery. So without further delay,

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let's get into today's topic.
Going back to the beginning,

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what led you to start the podcast?

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The podcast got started in 2021,

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and this was past the point
when we had suspension of

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elective care that took place
during the COVID pandemic,

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but we still had a lot of active
COVID and things certainly were not in

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any way normal. Most medical meetings
at that time were still remote,

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and a few had started up hybrid
with most people attending

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remotely and hospital
conferences also had flipped to

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remote, so I was doing a lot
less lecturing to colleagues,

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a lot less training with the
residents who were learning plastic

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surgery.

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At the podcast provided a means for
me to share my perspective on all

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things in aesthetic plastic surgery.

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Research and technology innovation,

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and what is now called
translational research,

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taking basic science bench laboratory

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discoveries,

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taking engineering and
bringing that into the clinical

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arena that helps inform
how to incorporate cutting

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edge advances in plastic
surgery, clinical care,

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and in plastic surgery decision making,

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and I was looking for a way
to share my experiences,

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my expertise,

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and opinions on new technologies
in aesthetic plastic surgery.

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Ken Greenberg, the president of HG Media,

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suggested the idea of a podcast to
provide a broader audience for these

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kinds of educational activities.

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HG Media is the company that
produces these podcasts for

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us,

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and Ken Greenberg is a man I've
worked with for many years producing

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videos for my medical lectures
as well as various marketing

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activities.

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Okay, that makes sense to me.

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Now let's talk about the name
Park Avenue Plastic Surgery Class

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Podcast.

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Well, of course, I practice in
New York City on Park Avenue,

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and that's one of the hotbeds of plastic

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surgery activity worldwide.

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I don't think we're necessarily any
better than plastic surgeons in other

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parts of the world,

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but it is cutting edge or
state of the art and it's a

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highly successful,

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highly refined rendition
of plastic surgery.

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So I think it's very
instructive for people to

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understand with that
Park Avenue perspective,

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how to decide about their clinical care,

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how we fit things together to
help our patients look their best.

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The idea of the class is
that these episodes are

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really little classes or studies to help

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inform people,

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and that narrows the gap in knowledge
between the plastic surgeon and the

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patient.

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You can't ever get to the surgeon's
level of knowledge or experience having

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trained and then practiced for decades,

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but the less of a mismatch
in background knowledge,

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the better it is when it comes time for
people to decide what treatment they

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want or how to proceed
with plastic surgery.

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And what's the approach the podcast takes?

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The podcast tries to present
cutting edge plastic surgery and

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aesthetic medicine, review history,

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briefly debunk myths,

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and make things understandable
to laypeople. Most important,

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we're trying to help people take a
realist approach to understanding and

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consuming plastic surgery.

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There's a ton of noise out there
about plastic surgery in the

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media, in social media, on the internet,

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and we're trying to quiet down all that

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noise and get to the kernel of what's real

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in deciding about plastic surgery.
The podcast is not commercial.

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No one can pay to be on the
podcast or to have a certain view

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expressed on the podcast.

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What we discuss represents my
professional opinion or that of the

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various guests that come on,

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and we intentionally try to showcase
differences of opinion among the

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experts in a respectful
but open-minded fashion so

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listeners can see the pluses and minuses.

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Rather than that,

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there's some absolutely
right answer or single best

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way.

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Okay. Thanks for explaining.

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What are some of your favorite
episodes over the past three years?

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Well, we've had a lot of
content in three years,

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but some of the facelift episodes
are definitely my favorites.

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Deep Dive on the Deep Plane
Facelift with Dr. Jason Bloom

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and the episode on different facelift
techniques with Dr. Sherrell Aston,

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but we have many, many facelift episodes.

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Don't Fear the F Word, Before
and After the Facelift,

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so those were all favorites.

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I also really like the Power
of One where we discuss

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making a unified approach
to all of your surgical and

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nonsurgical aesthetic needs.

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Over Filler or Just Overfilled?

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was another great episode,

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and that's just one of several
filler episodes that we've had,

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which is another important topic. Finally,

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some of the very technical
scientific episodes are

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fascinating.

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The episodes on exosomes and
regenerative medicine really

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presented a lot of cutting edge science,

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and of course the inaugural episodes have

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to be among my favorites.
Those are the Barbie Meets Star Wars

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episodes,

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and it's ironic that we talk

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about the Star Wars program,

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which came out of
National Defense Labs and

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Barbie and that those were
the inaugural episodes years

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before Barbie and Oppenheimer
warped in what ultimately

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became one of the National Defense Labs.

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So we had those episodes years
before those movies came out,

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and my favorite series is
probably Decades of Face,

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and we've had so much
expertise from so many really

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outstanding guests. It's hard to pick,

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and I don't want to single anyone out,

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but we've really had an outstanding group
of guests who have had a huge amount

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to contribute.

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Can you share any information about what
subjects are popular with listeners?

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So I have my favorites, which I've
just described, but you're right,

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Summer, that listeners have
their favorites and the

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facelift and skincare
episodes tend to be the top

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downloaded episodes.

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The number one episode in terms
of downloads was Daxxify with

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Dr. Kane,

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but other very popular
episodes were the facelift

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episode with Dr. Aston and the Deep
Dive on Deep Plane Facelift with Dr.

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Bloom.

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So what the listeners like and
what I like match to a certain

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extent, but you've been a listener
to the podcast before this summer,

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so maybe you can tell me what some
of your favorite episodes are.

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I also have similar favorite
episodes to you and other listeners.

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I like the Deep Dive on Deep Plane
facelift with Dr. Bloom. The Skin Is In:

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The Growing Focus on Skin Quality,

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and I really like the
Decades of Face series.

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So what's in store going forward?

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The podcast will continue to bring
you up to the minute information

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about the latest
aesthetic plastic surgery,

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as well as my analysis of
where these things fit in,

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because that's the real challenge.
There are so many technologies out,

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there are so many options
and which ones really work,

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which ones address what kind of problems,

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that's where the challenge
comes in, not just for patients,

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but for aesthetic surgeons to figure

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out how to put things together.

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We'll start some fascinating new
series and we'll continue to feature

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authoritative guests.

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We'll also revisit and update some
topics as things change or to see

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how new devices work out.

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Finally,

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we're planning to explore some of
the creative capabilities of plastic

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surgeons and what led them
to enter the field. I mean,

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plastic surgeons, many of them are
very interesting people with many,

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many different outstanding skills
beyond just their surgical or

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medical capabilities,

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and so we'll explore that a little
bit with some guests coming up.

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We'll also talk to some medical
industry inventors to learn how they

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came to innovate,

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something that was a game
changer in aesthetic medicine

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and what they think about
the future of the industry.

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I can't wait. Any final points
for our listeners, Dr. Bass?

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All the episodes going back three
years are out there on all the

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podcast platforms.

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That means you can stream or download
any of the episodes at any time,

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so if you have a question or interest
in a particular area of plastic

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surgery,

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this is your reference library to
get a detailed discussion on that

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particular topic, a class if
you will, on that subject.

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This is good advanced study prior
to a consultation with your plastic

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surgeon,

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or just to get more information and
understanding before making any final

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decisions.

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Thank you,

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Dr. Bass for sharing this recap about
the podcast and for inviting me to join

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the podcast team.

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Thank you for listening to the Park
Avenue Plastic Surgery Class Podcast.

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