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admin @ August 31, 2009 # One Comment
Medical boards exist to make things better and safer for you, the patient.
Medical boards exist at the national, state, county and local levels. All 50 states can bestow – or cancel – a doctor’s medical license.
They can also discipline physicians who somehow get out of line or injure patients.
State medical boards even have the power [...]
admin @ August 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The reactions to the proposed ten percent tax on cosmetic plastic surgery has taken many different forms.
(Read our take on a misguided attempt at a plastic surgery tax.)
Now, the American Society of Bariatric Plastic Surgeons (ASBPS) headquartered in Newport Beach, California, is calling for a tax on fatty foods! (We are NOT making this up!)
If [...]
admin @ August 24, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A plastic surgery documentary – seen through a pair of very myopic glasses – will air for the first time on HBO August 31st and then be seen whenever you can catch it.
Youth Knows No Pain runs under HBO’s America Undercover series.
Even though the documentary was made by Mitch McCabe, the daughter of a reconstructive [...]
admin @ August 19, 2009 # One Comment
Lap Band weight loss surgery has been so well received by Americans that it was only a matter of time until the procedure became involved in court cases.
An Indiana Court of Appeals declared that a six-foot-tall, 380-pound man must have a Lap Band to lose enough weight to make sure a separate back operation would [...]
admin @ August 17, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The day may come when you must make a written disclaimer that you’ve had:
Breast augmentation
Nose surgery
Face lift
Other plastic surgery that affects appearance
Doctoral candidate Kristi Scott, writing in Journal of Evolution and Technology worries about the Darwinian ethics of cosmetic plastic surgery.
It’s because we humans are hard-wired to read both female and male beauty as signs [...]