Allure‘Operation Celebrity,’ September 2006After all the complicated arrangements to keep everything quiet, famous patients often slip up and give away their own identity. Gerald Pitman, who practices in Manhattan, remembers a world-renowned pop star who called the doctor at home after having surgery. When Pitman’s young son answered and asked who was calling, the patient gave his real name, and the child’s jaw dropped. Pitman had to lecture his son on the importance of honoring patient privacy. “I’d as soon reveal the name of a patient as jump off a bridge,” Pitman says. Another of Pitman’s famous patients checked into the hospital under a pseudonym and promptly forgot to use it. Later, one of Pitman’s colleagues let him know that “the lady who pushes the gurney tells me you’re operating on so-and-so.” New York Times‘Newly Petite in Skin That’s XL,’ by Natasha Singer, August 3, 2006Town & Country‘The Town & Country Guide to Cosmetic Rejuvenation,’ by Janet Carlson Freed, July 2006Despite what many of us think, “local with sedation isn’t necessarily safer than general,” says Dr. Gerald H. Pitman, a plastic surgeon in New York, “particularly in a procedure like breast reduction. To use local with IV sedation in this case would be a dangerous compromise because you’d need to be sedated so deeply. Only general provides protection of the airway.” New York Magazine‘Best Doctors ‘06,’ June 19, 2006Gerald H. Pitman ELLE‘The Body Shop,’ by Maggie Bullock, May 2006When Caroline* of Moneta, Virginia, wanted a tummy tuck to both redefine her waistline and eliminate an unsightly hysterectomy scar, she turned to a [local] surgeon who had been recommended by a friend. But he botched the job, leaving her with even worse scarring and a fierce determination to find exactly the right doctor to correct it. After spending weeks interviewing surgeons throughout Virginia and the Carolinas, she landed in a rarefied place she’d read about in magazines – Pitman’s office. “Dr. Pitman immediately made me feel that I was in good hands,” she says. His price included a week at a discreet, all-inclusive “home away from home” suite across the street from his office with the option of a round-the-clock nurse. Including travel expenses, it was more than $10,000 above what she would have paid near the home. “Is there any truth in the saying, ‘You get what you pay for?’ I say yes, definitely. Dr. Pitman gave me exactly what I wanted,” Caroline says. “In fact, I’ve already scheduled an eye job and lower face-lift with him for this spring.” *Name changed to protect privacy. New York Times Magazine‘Fill ‘Er Up, The Latest Wrinkle in Face Lifts,’ by Daphne Merkin, April 30, 2006“The techniques are not exclusionary,” points out Gerald H. Pitman, who often uses Botox and live fat grafts as an adjunct to surgery. “For many patients who come with problems of aging, it’s a combination of loss of volume and loss of skin elasticity. The really nicest results,’ he adds, ‘are in patients who have a little of both [volume replacement and skin tightening].” MORE‘Ageless Eyes,’ by Lois Joy Johnson, March 2006What a doctor can do"Blepharoplasty (surgery to remove excess kin on lids) plus repositioning surplus fat can shift fullness to where you need it," says New York plastic surgeon Gerald H. Pitman, MD. Russian Vogue“The Best Plastic Surgeons in Europe and the United States”, February 2006Gerald Pitman, New York, USA Dr. Pitman authored the premiere textbook on liposuction and body sculpting. His work established the aesthetic standard for body sculpting on two continents. His surgery recreates natural and youthful contouring using ultra fine instrumentation. He is a master at artfully recreating youthful shapes by precise removal and tightening of loose skin of the abdomen and thighs. Dr. Pitman is known for restoration of youthful contours, giving women a second chance to wear bikinis and other sexually alluring outfits that they were unable to wear for many years. His waiting room is filled with fashion models and well-known media personalities desiring to maintain their youthful size zero. Consumer Reports‘Surgically Slim: A Cure for Obesity and Why It’s Risky,’ February 2006A single procedure can remove millions of fat cells, and once they’re out, they’re out. But if you gain weight later, you’ll just store it somewhere else. “You can’t predict in any one person where it’s going to go,” says Gerald Pitman, M.D., a plastic surgeon in New York and author of Liposuction & Aesthetic Surgery. In the best-case scenario, he says, “if they gain the weight back that was taken off, now it’s distributed normally through the rest of the body, so it’s not as noticeable.” Newsweek‘Liposuction: Going Micro,’ by Karen Springen November 7, 2005Calves and ankles (“cankles”) “Nearly anyone with thick ankles is a potential candidate,” says New York plastic surgeon Gerald Pitman, author of Liposuction & Aesthetic Surgery. Doctors make the incision behind the knee so the scar is less visible. The New York Times Style Magazine‘Beauty 911,’ Fall 2005Dr. Gerald H. Pitman A global authority on liposuction, Pitman has spearheaded new techniques, improved the safety of procedures, tested the latest technology and published a textbook. He uses a power-assisted liposuction device and prides himself on having “consistent, symmetric beautiful results.” Calves and ankles, notoriously difficult to sculpt, are one of his specialties. New York Magazine‘Best Doctors – 1374 Who Make the Cut,’ June 6, 2005Gerald H. Pitman New York Times Magazine‘Keeping the Forces of Decrepitude at Bay,’ by Daphne Merkin, May 2, 2004…Gerald H. Pitman, an Upper East Side plastic surgeon who wrote the standard medical textbook on liposuction and aesthetic surgery….Pitman is fairly easy to talk to…there is something pleasingly straightforward and unembossed about his approach. |
