Are there any ethics in the industry of plastic surgery? I find it to be a disturbing trend that so many people are getting themselves cut up for looks. With a rise in plastic surgery comes with a rise in botched plastic surgery.
Finding photos on the Internet was hard because a lot of what goes on is kept hush-hush until someone dies.

How come people just can’t be happy with who they are; fat, skinny, small breast, large breast, large rear, no rear, beer belly, etc.?

There seems to be no trend to stop this problem. The media and our society tell us that women are supposed to be under a size 7 (dress) and 30 C (bra). It’s all a fantasy and people are putting their lives on the line to look like the tramp on TV. If people want to be slim, exercise, control your diet and if that doesn’t work, live with it.








Full story:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/archives/2001/06/30/0000092124


More sick stories:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/31499p-29867c.html

http://www.transgender.freeserve.co.uk/tg/news/news1047.html


-A 50-year-old woman testified that the doctor, Abdolvahab Steven Pirnia, was supposed to perform a 3-hour breast augmentation procedure, but it became an excruciating 8 1/2 hour ordeal, with the implants rupturing twice, spilling onto her clothing. Another of Pirnia's patients - a 17-year-old girl - suffered infections after he performed breast implant surgery.


-In Florida, Donnie "Viva" Hendrix and Mark Hawkins are on trial for unlicensed practice of medicine, manslaughter and third-degree felony murder. Police say a Miami secretary, Vera Lawrence, died in March 2001 after Hendrix and Hawkins injected industrial-grade silicon into her hips and buttocks. Medical examiners say the silicone entered Lawrence's bloodstream, leading to her death. Several witnesses have come forward in the trial to allege Hendrix and Hawkins held "pumping parties" in a friend's apartment, where they would charge several hundred dollars for each illegal injection of silicone.



-She trusted him because he was a doctor. That was a mistake. Nearly three weeks later Helen checked herself into the hospital. Her abdomen was purple and blistered and she was in intense pain. Nurses told her that she was the fourth patient to arrive with complications after Dr. Hunter's liposuction.

http://www.cbc.ca/programs/sites/features/hm_cosmeticsurgery/botchedsurgery.html


This lady wanted to lose some flab under her arms; she died hours after her surgery.
Full story:






http://pub83.ezboard.com/fgoodvibrations20813frm2.showMessage?topicID=12.topic.

One of the most disgusting.  

-In his plastic surgery/urology malpractice complaint filed on March 10, 1997, Mr. Doe, who apparently thought that his penis was too small and his butt too big, alleged that on April 1, 1995, Dr. Sheldon O. Burman, founder and director of M.S.D. Institute botched his phalloplasty (penis enlargement) and liposuction of his buttocks. He claimed that has caused deformity to his penis which now points to the right, loss of sensation, and pain upon erection and ejaculation, necessitating a subsequent surgery by another plastic surgeon, and that the liposuction has also deformed his buttocks. He claimed severe emotional distress necessitating multiple treatments from numerous psychiatrists and psychologists.
This case is so disgusting, I will not post a direct link but the full story is here:
http://www.malpracticeweb.com/burman_doe.htm


Well not exactly plastic surgery, but it is vanity which involves lots of pain.
Is there a part of the human psyche that wants to be tortured for vanity?



…and Michael Jackson.
What in the hell were he and his surgeon thinking of? What kind of thought process went in to this sort of gradual mutilation of his face? Do these doctors ever put there foot down and say NO, certain procedures can’t be performed? I understand he has lost of money and there are many doctors who are willing to take money and do what the patients want but this is just wrong.


Liberace paid for plastic sergury for his gay lover Scott Thorson to look like him.

Is there any ethics in this industry?  



Of course there are a few success stories. I can see in cases of severe birth defects and burn victims, plastic surgery or reconstructive surgery may be required.