An E-Mail Exchange with the Florida Society of Plastic Surgeons

This is the response to my reply from Susan Russell, Executive Director of the FSPS:

Dear Dr. Bosshardt:

Thank you for your message. Membership in the AMA certainly is a personal decision, and we certainly understand that recent stances from that organization are not in line with the views of many of our members.

That being said, we at the FSPS will continue to strive to have the voices of Florida plastic surgeons heard at every possible forum at which public policy is formed, whether it be the Florida Board of Medicine and Legislature, Congress, the Florida Medical Association and, yes, the AMA.

Thank you for your engagement on this issue, as involved members do make the best advocates.

Susan

My final reply:

I have never been more disappointed with organized medicine than I am today. I wonder if my wonderful profession is beyond salvage and I worry about the level of care I will receive when I am old an in need of medical care. This should be a concern for us all given the focus on race essentialism to explain all disparities in medicine, the every growing government bureaucracy and control of medical care, unscientific ideologies directing medical care, such as affirming gender dysphoria in adolescents with puberty blockers and even surgery, and ignoring such basic medical precepts as acquired immunity after viral infections in the case of Covid. Body “positivity” has replaced living a healthy life and cast aside the physical and emotional toll of obesity, which is now the default status of over two thirds of Americans. And the list goes on. Richard T. Bosshardt, MD, FACS

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Meet Dr. Rick Bosshardt

Dr. Bosshardt attended the Leonard Miller School of Medicine of the University of Miami, graduating in 1978. He completed a general surgery residency at the United States Naval Hospital in Oakland, California. His residency term was interrupted from 1979-80 when he served as medical officer aboard the USS Wabash and was deployed to the Western Pacific with an aircraft carrier task force. During that year, the Wabash was involved in the rescue of Vietnamese boat people and was part of operations to end the Iranian hostage crisis in 1980. The USS Wabash crew received several decorations for this deployment, including the Meritorious Unit Commendation. Upon completion of his training, Dr. Bosshardt served as a general surgeon at the United States Naval Hospital in Okinawa, Japan from 1984-87. During this time, he obtained his board certification from the American Board of Surgery. While in Okinawa, Dr. Bosshardt applied, and was accepted, for residency training in plastic surgery under world-renowned plastic surgeon, D. Ralph Millard, Jr., M.D., at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center in Miami, Florida. He was honorably discharged from the Navy with the rank of Commander in 1987 and completed his plastic surgery training in Miami from 1987-89. Dr. Bosshardt arrived in Lake County in July of 1989 as the first plastic surgeon in the county. He obtained lifetime certification by the American Board of Plastic Surgery in 1991. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Since starting in private practice, Dr. Bosshardt has participated regularly in overseas medical missions to provide reconstructive surgery to children with cleft lip, cleft palate. and other problems. His travels have taken him to the Philippines, Guatemala, Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, the West Bank, and Mexico. Dr. Bosshardt performs both cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery in his practice, which has grown to two surgeons working out of a modern facility that houses the only state licensed private surgical suite in Central Florida dedicated exclusively to plastic surgery. He has privileges at Advent Health Waterman and University of Florida Leesburg Hospital.

An E-Mail Exchange with the Florida Society of Plastic Surgeons

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