I'm Sean McNally,
I'm a plastic surgeon
with The Oregon Clinic.
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Well you always hear
these stories of people
who are like I was three years old
and picked up an injured baby
bird and my life was set.
It was a much slower process for me.
I had a feeling that I wanted
to do something in biology
when I was younger in high school
because my high school biology teacher
was by far the best
teacher in my high school.
So at UNC where I was in medical school,
you have to do multiple
different rotations for surgery.
Trauma folks you see terrible accidents,
car accidents, motor cycle accidents,
burn victims, all these kinda things.
And we stabilized and took
care of those patients
on the trauma service,
but the plastic surgeon
is really who came in,
did the reconstruction for the patient,
got them better, got them
moving on with their lives.
Overall my philosophy
for how I treat patients
is making sure it's a collaboration
between myself and the patient,
because you're surprised sometimes
talking to people that their goals
might be different than another patient's.
So by having that
discussion with a patient
and finding out what they're really after
and what they would like from me
to help them move forward in their life.
It really helps me find
a way to help them.
The thing that I find,
and it's not a big thing,
it ends up being a small thing
that happens very regularly
that I find reassuring in our job
is the first visit after an operation.
You can tell whether you did a good job
on just the first eye contact
when you walk in the door
because patient makes eye contact,
they smile at you, or they look good.
You know that you've done a great job
and it's really, it's really satisfying.
It's like that first moment.
When most people think of rhinoplasty,
when they think of nose jobs,
they think of cosmetic things,
like just wanted to look better.
You just wanna have a thinner tip,
just want it to be more projected,
less projected, those kind of things.
But a lot of people get hit on the nose
throughout our lives.
And that's a real issue for people.
Mouth breathers at
night, you know snoring,
unable to kind of do exercises and tasks.
So one of the things that we offer is
straightening that and re-doing
the nose while you're at it,
which is covered by insurance
as long as there's an actual obstruction
and issues breathing.
But it's nice that we get to
offer that in our clinic now.
So for me, spending time with my wife,
and we have so many hobbies
and things that we love to do together
and whatever we're doing
we always have fun.
It's trying new restaurants,
exploring downtown,
out running, just sitting on the couch
watching Netflix with the dog,
depending on how busy the day has been.
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