A recent study printed in the Cosmetic Surgery Times revealed that over half of 800 women surveyed are willing to wait for the FDA to approve form-stable “gummy bear” breast implants. Gummy bear breast implants have been hailed world-wide as the only ones that simply don’t leak. The devices, already approved in Europe and Canada, […]
From the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS): NEW YORK, NY (March 20, 2012) – The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) today released their 15thannual multi-specialty procedural statistics. The Aesthetic Society, which has collected plastic surgery procedural statistics since 1997, says the overall number of cosmetic procedures has increased 197 percent since […]
The University of Michigan student paper, Michigan Daily, has published a nice little article about my memoir In Stitches. “What a pair. Double D’s. Poking up at me like twin peaks. Pam Anderson, eat your heart out. Too bad they’re attached to a fourteen-year-old boy.” So begins Anthony Youn’s “In Stitches,” a refreshingly honest and […]
What is going on with all the Pillow Faces in Hollywood? There’s been a rash of them lately, each one seemingly worse than the next. A Pillow Face is the term used when a person has overplumped cheeks, causing them to look like a Cabbage Patch Doll or as if they’re storing nuts for the winter. […]
I met Sam* in the OR a few years ago. A polite surgical technician in his early 30s, we’d often chat after work. Sam obtained his medical degree from a school in Eastern Europe prior to immigrating to the United States. Now he spends his days cleaning surgical instruments and his nights working in a […]
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The FDA has approved the silicone breast implant from the manufacturer Sientra. From the FDA website: FDA approves new silicone gel-filled breast implant Approval conditioned on post-approval safety studies Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a silicone gel-filled breast implant manufactured by Sientra Inc. to increase breast size (augmentation) in women at least […]
Hopefully this video trailer for my book In Stitches brings a smile to your face. If you haven’t had a chance to read it, please pick up the book that Publisher’s Weekly called, “Full of fascinating stories and laced with self-deprecating humor in the midst of dark desperation, providing a refreshing insight into medicine.” It’s […]
I recently wrote an Op-Ed piece for the Business Insider that has gotten a good amount of attention. Here it is: If you need heart surgery, you call a cardiologist. If you need an eye exam, you visit an ophthalmologist. Simple enough. But would you go to an ER doc for liposuction? How about […]
