Fw: KVCB-TV and plastic surgeons

March 24, 2002

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From: " by way of ilena rose " <Bojohns@...>

Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 1:09 AM

Subject: KVCB-TV and plastic surgeons

> Please Post: " There's no proof " from the mouth of the Las Vegas

plastic

> surgeon, is toned according to whom he is speaking, I'm sure. But it

> jogged a memory. . . I sat in on the deposition of my last p s, who

> fortunately forgot the antibiotic and my polyurethane re-reconstruction

> became infected and removed, and when my attorney said to him " You

wouldn't

> implant (silicone) again knowing what you know now, would you? " His

> response was " I would if the FDA said it was OK. " " To which the attorney

> replied " Knowing how ill women become, you would still implant them? "

> " I said I would if the FDA said it's OK " Realize that he said this

> with a smug attitude--much the same way the Las Vegas plastic surgeon

> probably said " there's no proof. " i.e. you can't prove it in court . .

> .therefore we can go on maiming and causing illness all we want to and

> there's nothing you can do about it. . .and further, we don't care what it

> does to you, or your family or your insurance status. I would suppose

this

> is a rather standard attitude--as I've been through reconstruction with

two

> different plastic surgeons, I find that they say almost identical

> things--and for the same reasons. I'm assuming the ASPRS has had a hand

> in this. It seems now they are going over the FDA's head to the House of

> Representatives. A friend, who is a psychiatrist, bet that there are

> " more than the average share of mysogynists in plastic surgery. "

>

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