That's a fantastic question. I've asked that question of the ASPS, the American plastic surgeon association, when I landed on websites that are so dangerous. They are literally dangerous to patients.
I will tell you that I sent off a request to ASPS to ask what we can do about this, because this doesn't represent your organization with any credibility. At the time—and it may have changed—I was told that since I didn't have an MD behind my name, I was not able to complain about any misleading information.
At this point, I would tell a Canadian consumer today, whether she's a breast reconstruction patient or an augment patient, this is “buyer beware”, and that very pretty, glossy half-medical half-marketing information is dangerous and is misleading through omission. It is literally a selection of omission and wordsmithing.
Personally, I spent three years on and off Health Canada's website. Health Canada's website was a major decision-making tool for me, and it is why Health Canada became a target after my diagnosis. It's because I wasn't an impulsive 20-year old but was in my forties, and the fact that Health Canada had chosen to withhold that information was unacceptable to me, because I thought that was my oversight safety.
The first time somebody said to me, “Well, Terri, you never went to the FDA's website,” my mouth literally dropped, because it would never have occurred to this intelligent woman, as a Canadian, to go over to the FDA and to the States to read about breast implants. It didn't even cause me a thought.