YouTube, Hair Restoration, and Ethics of Testimonials
On Thursday, I read an article in the New York Times about plastic surgeons offering patients discounts or free services to provide testimonials on the surgeon’s behalf. I want to state that no patient on this website was offered any kind of discount or free service to speak on our behalf. Clearly, a paid testimonial undermines the credibility of the testimonial. I know however that several patients were offered severely marked down costs for procedures to be done by my colleagues here in Dallas in exchange for testimonials. However, they still chose us to do their procedure. I did some serious thinking of whether I have accepted discounts for testimonials and I can say that in almost every case I did not except 2 local news spots on Restylane injections: see my blog on lamfacialplastics.com for more details. Just want you guys to know my position on all of this so that you can believe what you see on this site, as every testimonial on this site was unpaid, undiscounted, and uncompensated.