 [ Symptoms ] when should i use a professional clinic for my post op recovery [ Disease ] i believe if one has a more invasive procedure such as a major tummy tuck and a major face and neck lift again these can be long operations recovery in a professional facility trumps recovering at home now again in most big cities now there are facilities for patients to recover with professional care these are dedicated focused again super specialized facilities we have 4 or 5 of them within a few miles of this office here in beverly hills one is in a wing of a hotel the wing is not for hotel guests it is exclusive it is secured only for patients who have had cosmetic surgery i am not the only surgeon to utilize it my colleagues use it also what they provide is a comforting professionally administered post operative sojourn we provide the medications they provide the tender loving care and most importantly they act as my eyes and ears because when i call that facility at 800 oclock at night and again at 10 to check on the patient talk to the nurse she is telling me how they are doing how is the pulse how is the blood pressure is there too much bruising is there any discomfort i mean these are signs that i may even have to go check them out go down there and take a look but they kind of know how to sort things out they know what to expect because this is all they do these nurses know what to expect they have my written instructions they have their little pharmacy there of the medicines that i have provided them in case of say a sudden elevation of blood pressure most people are not going to have that but occasionally somebody does again we do not want to have to wait to have a pharmacy to send anything over again forethought planning they are in an environment which is a couple of notches below a hospital see is there an extra cost for that there is for the patient that has that service basically the cost is built into the service in other words it is an outsourced cost if you will or if the patient wants to pay for it directly themselves they can but basically they usually just pay us for all the services and we pay the outpatient surgery center and the doctor anesthesiologist and then the hideaway because frankly it is just simpler for the patient to write one check for all of the services and we take care of the details again we are acting like a general contractor but all the subcontractors are fine with that and it works out fine and patients like to know that they are in an environment where they are safe and they are safe and we can not expect their brother or sister to be able to pick up the early signs of say leakage of blood under the skin in excess of what we expect