Hi, blood money listeners. So let's talk about plastic surgery. But before we do, I just want to really

quickly apologize. There was an episode uploaded this week incorrectly. A lot of you emailed me to let me

know that it wasn't properly edited. I want to say first of all, I really appreciate you letting

me know. Second of all, it's completely my fault. I tried to take a day off at Thanksgiving.

And I did leave instructions for an episode to be uploaded. Unfortunately, my instructions were

confusing. So the wrong one was uploaded. I apologize. A new one has been re-uploaded. And there are no

mistakes in it. So hopefully everything is okay now. Back to the bonus content. I apologize. A new one has been re-uploaded and there are no mistakes in it. So hopefully

everything is okay now. Back to the bonus content. I've been wanting to do this for quite some time

because we talk about so many doctors on this podcast. I just want to real quickly get into the

difference between a doctor being licensed and board certified because they are different. You don't have to be

board certified to practice medicine. You do have to be licensed to practice medicine. Really briefly,

let's just give a synopsis of what a doctor has to go through to become specialized. First of all,

they have to go to four years of medical school.

And then after that, they apply for licensing in their state. Most of the references I'm going to

use today come from New York State, so there might be different requirements for different states.

You'll definitely want to check that out, but just to keep it simple, I'm going to use examples

from New York. There's a website called Ogginzky Law. It's a malpractice website, and it has a lot of good

information and kind of basically gives a synopsis for this. That's the source that I'm using now.

Once you graduate from medical school, you apply for licensing in your state. But this website

gives the example of that being like when you get your

driver's license. So you've passed the driver's test, you have your driver's license, but it doesn't

mean you're a good driver. The way that you become a good driver in medicine is by going on to do

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