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Published on: 12/14/2007
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About five years ago, Dr. Jim Brantner, a plastic surgeon from Johnson City, Tenn., was scanning the seminar schedule at a medical conference held on the Oceanside campus of the University of California at San Diego in La Jolla, CA.
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"Dennis may not have been one of the big names showing their results," Dr. Brantner says, "but when I sat in on his course, I said to myself, this is one guy whose brain I want to pick.
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More than a year ago, Dr. Brantner, who is a founding board member of the Tennessee Physicians Resource Council, picked up a copy of World magazine in his waiting room, and who was on the cover!
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"This is like doing missions work at home, where it's a much more efficient use of our time and efforts," Dr. Brantner says.
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Meanwhile, in Tennessee, Dr. Jim Brantner is talking about his Fresh Start Surgery Weekend held last spring."I didn't want to reinvent the wheel," he says, "so I asked Fresh Start if I could start a branch office in the Eastern United States.The board agreed, and after a year of administrative planning, we had our first Surgery Weekend."
Dr. Brantner performed three operations: "One was a reduction mammoplasty for a 15-year-old girl who fell through the cracks of the medical system.