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Saturday, December 23, 2006

Plastic surgery for Christmas?

Doctor anonymous speculates:
I was talking with one of my co-workers here at the office. She ... saw on television the idea of plastic surgery, er, cosmetic surgery, gift cards.
From USA today:

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It's not perfume, a piece of jewelry or a spa treatment. Giving cosmetic surgery as a gift trivializes a serious medical procedure," says David Sarwer, an associate professor of psychology at the Center for Human Appearance at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia.

"The giver may have good intentions, but it could place undo pressure on the person on the receiving end," Sarwer says.

The gift giver may also offend the recipient, says Zachary Gerut, a Long Island plastic surgeon and assistant clinical professor at Albert Einstein Medical Center in New York. He says it's not uncommon for a husband to bestow the gift of a breast implant upon his wife this time of year. "Why don't you just insult the poor lady and be done with it? It's like telling someone they have bad breath," he says.


Maybe not.

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