For any night owls out there, I’ll be doing a segment on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory this Tuesday night / Wednesday morning at 1 am ET/10 pm PT! We’ll be discussing Extreme Plastic Surgery: Truth or Myth? Do doctors really remove ribs to thin the torso? What about liposuction fat used to […]
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Here is an interesting segment from the Today Show based on the new plastic surgery statistics for 2011 by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. For the accompanying article, including my comments on Chinplants, click HERE.
The pair of double-Ds jutting out in front of me look like they would belong on Pam Anderson. Instead they’re attached to a 14-year-old boy. I whip out a black marker and start drawing on Phil, my first surgery patient of the day. Phil has severe gynecomastia, or enlarged male breasts. Phil was brought […]
The L.A. Times published a series of articles about plastic surgery this past Sunday. There are some interesting reads here. Please see links below if you have a few minutes and are looking for something plastic surgery-relate to read: Good Plastic Surgery, Bad Plastic Surgery Plastic Surgery Increasingly Is A Couples Activity Plastic Surgery: The […]
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 […]
