Posted by xanadu on September 3rd, 2009
tags: health care, NTAF, surgery
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Dr. Amber’s final decision – Ms. Wheeze is being allowed the procedure, despite the objections of certain Dead People rights organizations (a side-note The NAADP is not a recognized Non-Profit, do not donate to them – and we certainly do not recognize the frustratingly disturbing actions of NAMDPLA!). Wheras if you are really interested in transplants – the NTAF will put your cash to good use.
The results from her surgery, to be performed by the ever capable Dr. Stoli will be available as soon as she is out of post-op… likely next Tuesday. Let’s hope her new face is a keeper. – Next week – advancements made in Human Limbs for mannequin amputees… Will these be covered in the new health care system?
Posted by mimi on September 2nd, 2009
tags: beauty, doctor, ethics, grotesque, health care, patient, plastic, skin deep, surgery
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I honestly thought we, as a community, had sorted all this out after the “nipple explosion” of ’02. The scornful outrage, the indignant accusations, the fascist repressive chauvinism…
I agree, we should not be slaves to any sort of artificial superficial subjugation.
I share your sentiments of balking at the unnatural. But isn’t self-improvement an inherent part of our nature? Haven’t we been struggling, withstanding, evolving through history to better ourselves, our situation?
We have shaped the world to our ideas: tamed rivers with bridges, watered deserts with irrigation, leapt past our gravitational limits and embraced the sky with flight, and even comforted our lonely moon with companionship. We shape the world in our images.
Only the short-sighted would classify beauty as skin deep. Beauty is much more than that. It IS a state of mind. An expression of our ideals, which is why in so often we hearken back to the Greeks. The wave of partially or completely decapitated mannequins with nipples that popped up everywhere in ’02 was an absolute homage to the paragons of the ancient Athenians.
And this procedure, this transplant is its own homage to the sublime. This lovely woman doesn’t want to be a super-model or a grotesque monster. She wants to be… normal. She wants to shape her life. And if the simple act of removing her damaged head and replacing it with one from a lovely cadaver (see Lego head switch maneuver), can help her do this, shouldn’t we support that?
Dr. Mimi Ismayne, Plastic Surgeon
Posted by xanadu on September 1st, 2009
tags: accident, ethics, model, radical, surgery, transplant
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Dr. Amber here with another medical conundrum.
You may have heard about the truck full of hogs that turned over on Highway I-9 on Wednesday between Charlottesville and the exit for the Canterbury Mall. Well, it was a major collision. Ham was everywhere – the smell traveled for miles and those with their mouths watering turned in horror, when what appeared to be possibly the odor of a church picnic, was in fact a devil’s playground.
Three were left dead and several were injured including a Ms. Wheeze of Cobble Court Road – who was on her way to a modeling job at Sears. As Ms. Wheeze is a Mannequin, they rushed her here to Indemnity General to see what we could do to help.
The case was dire – she was rushed to the ER, her sternum cracked and her face scraped almost hockey-puck flat. We stabilized her and when she finally came to – we had to tell her the bad news. She would never model again.
That was when she asked about the controversial Face transplant surgery. True it had been done on a woman in
Cleveland.But it was a huge risk. Right now the patient is stable and we can keep her alive, but if she elects this risky surgery… She may die.
The face would have to come from a cadaver and we do have some transplant candidates available, but what about the family of the person whose face would be donated (seen below)? What are their rights? What would be the protocol if someone was walking around with the face of your sister – or your mother… would you be comfortable with that – would you expect a relationship with that person?
Ms. Wheeze is still in the hospital and insists that the radical full face surgery be tried.
I am still not one hundred percent comfortable with it – so I open it up to the forum….
Posted by admin on September 1st, 2009
tags: accident, mannequin, medicine, plastic, satire, surgery, transplant
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