Media is not the same beast it was a few mere decades ago. Do you remember the days described by comedian Jeff Foxworthy
, when there were only three television channels? When if the president was on, you were sure to miss ‘Flipper’? Of course, the number of outlets is not the only thing that’s grown. The content itself seems to have expanded to a whole new level. Maybe it has more to do with where and when I grew up than I’m giving it credit for, but my memory of plastic surgery in the ’80s had more to do with clucking one’s tongue over the latest change in Michael Jackson than any amount of coverage on TV. Today there’s a Plastic Surgery Channel. In the ’90s there was the furor over breast implants and whether they spelled the onset of Armageddon. Today, Oprah and her clones put the proudly-augmented on nationally syndicated shows where we learn that we, too, may partake of immortality bestowed by a surgeon’s knife.
Of course reality and television never did agree much, least of all on “reality shows.” Usually, reality falls somewhere in the boring middle-ground between the angst and glory that broadcasters deem worthy of televising. It’s true that there have been exciting advances in surgical techniques and procedures in the recent past, with more promise just over the horizon, but no matter how informative or even unbiased a media article (or blog post) may be, it won’t contain the whole story. That’s because surgery, whatever its purpose or practitioner, is a risky enterprise that is as dependent on individual physiology as on scientific advance. The only way to get the whole story of a procedure, as it applies to you, involves putting your body in a room with a surgeon who can match up where you are with where you want to go. You can help by bringing along a list of specific questions to ask of that doctor. Be prepared to listen and honestly consider suggestions and recommendations from the doctor, especially those you might not anticipate. Understand that doctors are people, and if you talk to more than one, you might hear more than one recommendation. And don’t be too determined to insist upon a particular procedure. As Michigan doctor, John Sampson, M.D., says, “If you ask enough doctors to perform a cosmetic procedure that may be detrimental to you, eventually you will find one who will do it.”
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