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Getting Started: Planning and Drawing

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The young plastic surgeon trainee is motivated by many factors, but intrinsic to the learning of the art and craft of plastic surgery is the fundamental skill of vision and creativity. We are the modern wound care specialists and the troubleshooters for challenging and complex surgical problems. Not everyone is an artist, but the good plastic surgeon needs to develop the skills of an artist—vision, 3D appreciation and creativity. Photography and simple drawings help to turn almost overwhelming surgical problems into clinical possibilities.

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  1. New Face Surgery Clinic, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand

    Michael F. Klaassen

  2. Former Head of Plastic Surgery Unit and former Clinical Director of Surgery, Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand

    Earle Brown

  3. Former Head of Plastic Surgery Unit, Western Hospital, Former Principal Reconstructive Surgeon in Head and Neck Service, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Felix Behan

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Klaassen, M.F., Brown, E., Behan, F. (2018). Getting Started: Planning and Drawing. In: Simply Local Flaps. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59400-2_2

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