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Learn Sclerotherapy from one of the masters! Read Manual of Sclerotherapy By Ken Biegeleisen, M.D., Ph.D. |
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Doctors! If you are contemplating starting a new career in Phlebology, this is the book to read! (Order now!) About the book This is neither an academic reference book, nor a pathway to increased profits through "improved insurance billing". Rather, this is a book devoted purely to good injection technique. Although I am the son of the inventor of the spider vein injection method, it nevertheless took me 5-6 years to perfect my skills, and in this book I shall share my knowledge with you. |
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Here's a sampling of what you will learn:
Note that this book does not contain practical tutorials on the use of laser or radiofrequency ablation for large varicose veins. Although it may, at this juncture, seem hard to believe, I will tell you that I am the inventor of these methods, having spent 20 years developing and promoting them. Yet, for a combination of good and perhaps not-so-good reasons, I do not employ them in their current form. The book does, however, give the complete history of these methods, and a description of the instrument which I intended; one which will bring Phlebology into the future. This is in stark contrast to the primitive, mercantile laser and RF devices which have now flooded the market for the benefit of certain "special interests". The current crop of watered-down imitations are blind, deaf and dumb vein-scalding instruments, which represent a huge medical step backwards. Perhaps a reader of this book will succeed where I failed, and persuade one of the many catheter manufacturers to produce a true Venoscope. On that day, the current crop of blind, deaf and dumb instruments will disappear from the face of the earth. |
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More about the book In the 30 years I have been injecting veins, I have had to deal with a continuous stream of patients whose therapy failed at the offices of other doctors. In the great majority of such cases, I completed their treatments successfully. My "cure rate" (defined as a cosmetic outcome entirely satisfactory to both doctor and patient) is consistently 90%. In nearly all the other 10% of cases, the result was still satisfactory, it just wasn't optimal. The true treatment failures, excluding people who just don't come back for whatever reason, is very low in this office. I don't even have a statistic. I'll estimate it at 1%, and if it's not exactly 1%, it's surely not more than 2%. What's my "secret"? It's partly that I know more, partly that I've spent more time perfecting my skills, but, above all, it's that I try harder. Since I am the son of the creator of this method, I feel compelled to protect the family reputation, and I have done just that, at least to the best of my ability. Although I cannot boast a 100% "cure rate", I can make the following similar claim with complete confidence: To the best of my knowledge, there is not a single patient in my 30 years of practice who was discharged from this office as "incurable", and who went to another office where he/she was "cured". I am so sure of this, that at one time I even gave new patients a written guarantee against the possibility that we would fail, promising to pay for their therapy in any other office which succeeded where we had not. To this day, not one patient has ever invoked this guarantee. Might there be be patients out there whom I failed to "cure", and who were "cured" elsewhere, and I just don't know about it? Sure, it's possible. Not likely, however. At least some of them would have called back to "stick it to me", or to demand money, or even to sue for malpractice. But in 30 years there has been no one, so I must presume that there are no such patients, or, at the very most, no more than a tiny handful. You can have the same track record, with a 90% cure rate, if you read this book and apply yourself. Keep one thing in mind, however. I didn't say I made more money than the doctors whose messes I have been cleaning up. Actually, it's the other way around. Most of them make more money than I, because failure pays. I treat a patient in only 3-6 office visits; subsequently I see them only once every 2-4 years. Most of my "competitors" see their patients 3-6 times per year, every year! Even if their per-visit fees are low, this sort of never-ending schedule generates lots of cash in the end. Thus, almost every one of them makes more money than I do. What you do with the knowledge you'll gain from this book is up to you. You may dispense your therapy at any rate, and for any price you please. What I'm giving you are options, namely the power to decide for yourself whether to be a superior and well-intentioned practitioner of a fine art, or an entrepreneur whose interests end with the collection of the fee. The choice will be yours. I recommend that you read this book, because you are a doctor, and every doctor has an obligation to apply himself diligently to his work, and to deliver to his patients the best care available. And the best care available, as of this writing, is found within this manual.
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About the author
I am a second-generation vein specialist with 30 years experience of my own. First, let me make brief mention of my father, Dr. H.I. Biegeleisen (1904-1991). He invented the injection method for "spider veins" (JAMA 102:2092-2094, 1934), coined the word "Sclerotherapy" (Am J Surg 44:622-624, 1939), and founded the Phlebology Society of America.
I became the Executive Director of the Society in 1980, and vastly expanded its recognition in this country and abroad. It has now "morphed" into the American College of Phlebology, which is finally poised on the brink of being a true certifying board, with AMA recognition, for all American vein specialists.
My own major contributions to the field of Phlebology are (1) I discovered the role of arteriovenous malformations in spider veins, and (2) I pioneered the use of fiberoptic catheters in vein therapy (although I must admit that France's Dr. J.F. Van Cleef's work more-or-less paralleled my own). It was I, however, who showed intravascular movies of the world's first sclerotherapy treatment via angioscope.
My researches culminated in the Venoscope (US Patent #5,022,399), an ultrasophisticated device which will change the way veins are treated. Watered-down versions of the Venoscope are now being marketed by a multitude of companies, and these are in use all over the United States and abroad. I receive no royalties from any of them, which is a problem that has not been resolved. This notwithstanding, I feel very justified in stating that I know the past of my field, and also see the future more clearly than my colleagues.
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