Essay for Comp 2

Macey Howard

Cheryl Anderson

Composition II

April 19, 2021

Argumentative Essay Outline

Topic: Increased risk of litigations against estheticians

Introduction

In the United States, non-physician personnel are not permitted to open cosmetic clinics or perform cosmetic procedures with the supervision of a qualified physician. While laws prohibiting such practices exist, non-physician staff is still carrying out cosmetic procedures. This has led to many medical liability litigations and complaints from patients due to injuries from these poorly performed procedures by non-physician operators.

Thesis statement: Thesis: Recently, there has been an increased risk of legal actions against estheticians due to cosmetic procedures performed by non-physician personnel, with slightly more training estheticians would be authorized to do such procedures.

Argumentative Essay Body Paragraphs

Paragraphs one

Claim: There are increased risks of injuries from cutaneous laser surgery especially those performed by non-physician operators leading to litigations.

Evidence: “From January 1999 to December 2012, we identified 175 cases related to injury secondary to cutaneous laser surgery. Of these, 75 (42.9%) were cases involving an NPO. (Ray, Julian, and Avram)”.

Commentary: due to the increased demand for cosmetic procedures, non-physician operators have jumped in to provide such services without medical licenses leading to botched procedures.

Paragraph two.

Claim: there has been an increased number of lawsuits filed by clients in connection to their dissatisfaction with facial dermabrasion and chemical peel services offered by their estheticians.

Evidence: “Plastic surgeons and dermatologists were the most commonly named physician defendants and 2 cases also included nonphysician “aesthetician” codefendants (Svider et al.)”.

Commentary: most plastic surgeons and dermatologists are allowing their unqualified staff to perform these complicated cosmetic procedures leading to dissatisfaction among the clients hence lawsuit complaints.

Paragraph three

Claim: with slightly more training and physician supervision over estheticians or NPOs they can learn how to effectively perform cosmetic procedures and reduce litigations.

Evidence: lack of training or supervision for non-physicians staff carrying out cosmetic procedures usually endangers the safety of the patients leading to litigations.

Commentary: due to the increasing demand for cosmetic procedures by many clients, there is a need to train more non-physicians operators to perform such procedures without risking patient’s safety to avoid litigation.

Conclusion

The increased numbers of litigations against estheticians have been due to non-physicians operators carrying out cosmetic procedures leading to injuries and dissatisfaction to the patients. More training and physician supervision on the NPOs can help them carry out successful cosmetic procedures hence reducing the number of litigations due to botched procedures.

The safety of the patient is very important when carrying cosmetic procedures and thus estheticians should always ensure they adhere to all laws protecting paints to avoid litigation.

Work Cited

Jalian, H. Ray, Chris A. Jalian, and Mathew M. Avram. "Increased risk of litigation associated with laser surgery by non-physician operators." JAMA dermatology 150.4 (2014): 407-411.

Svider et al. "Unattractive consequences: litigation from facial dermabrasion and chemical peels." Aesthetic surgery journal 34.8 (2014): 1244-1249.

Huang et al. "Ocular injury in cosmetic laser treatments of the face." The Journal of clinical and aesthetic dermatology 11.2 (2018): 15.

Rossi et al. "Non Physician practice of cosmetic dermatology: A patient and physician perspective of outcomes and adverse events." Dermatologic Surgery 45.4 (2019): 588-597.

Cypen, S. G., N. Langelier, and J. A. Woodward. "Transparency of Medical Spas in North Carolina." J Community Med Health Care 3.2 (2018): 1027.