The Myth Of The Red Flag Patient Is Just That A Myth

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The myth of the red flag patient is just that only a myth because it does not exist. You can only have red flag consumers, red flag doctors and/or marketers, green flag consumers and green flag doctors/marketers. Red flags are simply signs of unreasonable expectations along with limited knowledge when referring to the consumer while keeping the definition here simple. With red flag doctors/marketers we will keep it simple by using the term lack of integrity to encompass all points.


When a consumer has full knowledge of each and every point of a hair transplant procedure while also having reasonable expectations we will consider him a green flag patient. While a doctor/marketer with integrity and everything that encompasses we will consider a green flag doctor/marketer.


So the absolute worst combination here is the red flag consumer connecting with a red flag doctor/marketer and it does happen often as many are easily fooled by the red flag posters that are working the forums. It is only at this point when the red flag consumer and red flag marketer/doctor connect the consumer can be labeled a red flag patient but in actuality that label is only there as a way to keep the red flag doctor/marketer doing what he is doing while deferring blame. So when you see a patient attacked it is in fact not a red flag patient but a red flag doctor/marketer that decided it was okay to give the red flag consumer what he wanted regardless of the consequences.


A majority of red flag consumers can be found in the under 30 age group and the younger you go the less their frontal cortex has developed so the greater the chance of them being red flag consumers. Doctors can avoid them…………….it’s a choice otherwise stop deferring blame.

 

[SeanFUE]

Everyone looks like a green flag when after consults, grafts are suggested, deposits are taken, surgery is performed. If something goes wrong, then some try to paint the guy/gal as the red flag. It is a marketing game. Some surgeons take on extreme repair cases with confidence and succeed, some take only baby cases or ones with less challenge. This includes few docs on lists. Some say the massive repairs may be red flags and not take them at all. A red flag for one doctor is a success for another. In the end it all comes down to marketing.

 

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Sean much of what you are seeing on the forums is made up by marketers having conversations with other marketers or with themselves and the other screen names they make up. It’s a way to draw in any genuine posters/patients and those that are readers only. By creating some type of buzz and putting the name out there and repeating it often enough it starts to become sticky and it’s a way of creating social proof. It becomes a trap for those that are young and desperate.


This is why one should probably concentrate on actual patients that post their own results or simply a clinic that post it’s own results and maybe has an online rep that works only for that clinic and can answer questions regarding that clinic only. You have to meet people in person because in fact most of this is just being made up by the marketers.



If you have observed for long enough meaning years you can easily see how screen names are created as the innocent guy that walks into the room and is in the same boat as you. He is just researching and is trying to find out what other guys have heard. Then a few years later they are directing posters to specific clinics all on a daily basis. The names of the clinics change as needed depending on who they are working for. It’s all made up so yes we can go along with it all and answers their posts to see where it all leads, etc but understand what you are reading is not as real as you might believe. A forum can often times simply be a stage with the various players. Yes some patients are real and some clinics are ethical but the number is infinitely smaller then it appears. Many posters are working for clinics or the forums themselves. It’s 100% marketing fraud.



Watch for patterns, research poster history. Find their first post and then watch how it grows into something that seems very odd unless they were a marketer. Best advice for most is to stay away from the procedure simply because you might not be able to figure it out and if all this goes on that is reason enough. If all this goes on it's telling you something and that's the real red flag.

For example:


“Hey what about Dr. Vinny Boombatz I hear he is really good. Does his own extractions and has lower price.”

I say this is using deception to fool the consumer and this is marketing fraud.


Anyone that is just a reader of online forums as a way of researching needs to observe for years.

Sean I'm not trying to bring you down but most of what is presented online is simply made up. Made up screen names with made up text made up for a specific outcome. Once that becomes completely clear then you will make a better long term decision. Go back and search some of the screen names and their first few posts and contrast that with those made years later.

It's marketing fraud and doctors tied to it are committing marketing fraud.

Bottom line is the procedure is very, very limited. Doctors that are ethical were doing the right thing years ago with FUE because long term the donor is going to thin and eventually the patient needs to go with a shorter cut and that means the scar will eventually be exposed for many. That's part of how you figure it out. Go back at look what people were doing and saying years ago. Are they saying the same thing or has it changed?

With FUE you can get a little hair back and still look normal years later. There were only a handful of doctors doing the right thing years ago. One either gets it or they don’t. These doctors don’t need to change their story on the fly.


The average person has about 5000 grafts and at 80fu/sq/cm they fit into a 3” square. That’s it so when presented in it’s brutal reality those considering the procedure should do it all on paper first.