Everyone involved in this situation deserves adequate medical care. However, this really will not be possible as long as the information available is based on profiting, as opposed to the whole truth. I am opposed to the information biasing that is going on in this field, and feel that it is having disastrous and destructive effects on individual human lives.
We have the right to make our own decisions, but *we must all bear the responsibility* for the consequences of our decisions on the rest of our lives. It is impossible for anyone to make right decisions if they are made to ignore any important aspect of reality. This is a good observation tho. Logically, I would not be a medical shill, b/c no loyal worker in the field would ever risk burying the medical industry in billions of dollars of lawsuits from iatrogenic diseases that the infrastructure manages to sweep under the carpet.
Frankly, I don’t like this thought either, b/c medical insurance, medical care, is way too high as it is, and the American version of public health care sucks as it is. The other suggestion, that I am employed by insurance companies, was made some time ago by a busy PS (that occasionally dabbles in bringing in more of his breast reduction business by pretending to be a woman who had the surgery early in ’99). I found this interesting. In my analysis, spectrum137 could logically be an agent of the insurance companies *if and only if* we assume an *actual conspiracy* of the American insurance industry.
The insurance industry is (somewhere within their data banks) aware of the situation, and it is a most critical one, a complete “damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation.” Furthermore, the medical insurance industry in the US is a victim here, originally conned into it like so many others, and they did not themselves make any profit at all from cooperation. It is quite logical that the I industry sees severe danger in this situation, and might employ an agent to diffuse the matter in a fashion that *protects them* from dibilitating lawsuits.
The original surgery was definitely medically necessary, but this surgery was not. She did it because she didn’t like “looking like a freak” (her words) and wanted to look normal. I can see her point. I don’t think she was not sane just because she had the surgery for strictly aesthetic reasons.
My boss’s sister just had cosmetic surgery done on her nose and mouth. She was born with cleft palate and her nose and upper lip were flat, her lower lip protruded. She had surgery 15 years ago, which corrected part of it. Last week she went back and the surgeon fixed her nose and lip.
I can see your point, though, Lea.
Let me preface this with this is *not* a flame. I hope most people don’t think Down kids look alike or have all the same characteristics/physical features. In fact, Down people can have some of the classic characteristics (eye shape) and none of the others. Everything I have read (and seen) indicates these kids look more like their *families* then each other.
Has anyone noticed how Matt Perry suddenly became a lot better looking between seasons? I personally think he has had cosmetic surgery and has spent a lot of time in the gym. If you look back a few of seasons (especially the first season) he was this skinny, ugly looking guy and now he looks quite handsome. His popularity also seems to have increased since his appearance has changed.
Elizabeth Haiken delivers much more than the subtitle of her book implies: not just a history of a medical specialty but an intelligent, perceptive, and very lively analysis of 20th-century American culture and values as reflected in the rise of cosmetic surgery. Self-improvement is an American obsession. Up through the 19th century, Americans defined it @only in terms of character development and “inner beauty.”
Maybe a generation from now our children won’t get tattoos but get little cosmetic implant horns. I can see the parent child argument now, “But Mom, you have an all over body tattoo and that’s permanent too. All I want is my eyes redyed to florescent orange!” he he I have had laser eye surgery done because I hated glasses and contacts.
Specifically I’m wondering how getting fat sucked out of your body mixes with subsequent bulk/cut phases. If you get lipo of stubborn abdominal or facial fat, does the fat just come back as soon as you try to put on more weight when going into a bulking phase? I know someone who had liposuction surgery about six months ago.