Nursing - PLASTIC DISASTERS

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PLASTIC DISASTERS

Ilena Rose

2006-06-04, 9:20 am

Note from Ilena Rosenthal:
Some of the brave women from our support group were interviewed for
this series ...

PLASTIC DISASTERS

Plastic Disasters Home | Synopsis |

http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/Sc...FOCUS_ID=616998
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Featuring often-graphic operating-room footage, home videos, personal
"before" and "after" photos, and interviews with patients' doctors and
lawyers, Plastic Disasters is a graphic, disturbing look at the dark
side of the typically American notion that medicine can make everyone
look beautiful, this HBO Documentary Films presentation follows three
people - two women, one man - who are recovering from disastrous
plastic surgeries.

Lucille, whose "plastic surgery journey" includes collagen injections,
two facelifts and a nose job, believes her cosmetic surgeon performed
her nose job too soon after her first facelift, causing her skin to
swell and then sag, which made her look 20 years older and, she says,
left her with problems breathing and swallowing. Mona, whose bowel was
punctured during a routine liposuction procedure, sustained an
infection that led to more surgeries and persistent bed sores that
wouldn't heal. Eventually, both of her legs had to be amputated. And
Tony, who wanted to have a nose job because he thought it would make
him look younger, ended up damaging his nasal bones during the
procedure; he has since had four additional surgeries to correct the
problem.

Though plastic surgery is widely used today for non- essential
cosmetic reasons, we learn that, in fact, it evolved out of necessity.
One of the doctors interviewed in the film explains that the origins
of plastic surgery can be traced back to the First World War, when
many soldiers suffered gunshot wounds to the face. Doctors began to
recognize that these horrible disfigurements, which often made the men
social outcasts, could be just as devastating as having a serious
illness, and developed innovative techniques to reconstruct the face.
After the 1970s, when breast implants were introduced and plastic
surgeons started advertising, cosmetic surgery took a steep upward
trajectory. Today, we learn that "Over 9,000,000 cosmetic surgeries
are performed each year in the United States." What's rarely
advertised is the chance of something going wrong: "The total number
of medical complications is not a matter of public record."

Plastic Disasters was produced and directed by Kate Davis and David
Heilbroner, who last collaborated on HBO's 2004 documentary Jockey,
which won an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Directing for Non-Fiction
Programming (Davis). Davis also produced, directed and edited HBO's
Southern Comfort, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance
Film Festival and other prizes worldwide. The team's recent efforts
include Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling, and Scopes: The Battle
Over America's Soul (for the History Channel's upcoming series 10 Days
that Unexpectedly Changed America).

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Lucille

2006-06-08, 9:36 pm

I am one of the subjects in the film. Please visit my website for a
"bigger picture" of my experience:

http://groups.msn.com/LosingFace/

> Some of the brave women from our support group were interviewed for
> this series ...

> PLASTIC DISASTERS
>

>
> http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/Sc...AIL=3DDETAIL&F=
OCUS_ID=3D616998
> Schedule
>
>
> Featuring often-graphic operating-room footage, home videos, personal
> "before" and "after" photos, and interviews with patients' doctors and
> lawyers, Plastic Disasters is a graphic, disturbing look at the dark
> side of the typically American notion that medicine can make everyone
> look beautiful, this HBO Documentary Films presentation follows three
> people - two women, one man - who are recovering from disastrous
> plastic surgeries.
>
> Lucille, whose "plastic surgery journey" includes collagen injections,
> two facelifts and a nose job, believes her cosmetic surgeon performed
> her nose job too soon after her first facelift, causing her skin to
> swell and then sag, which made her look 20 years older and, she says,
> left her with problems breathing and swallowing. Mona, whose bowel was
> punctured during a routine liposuction procedure, sustained an
> infection that led to more surgeries and persistent bed sores that
> wouldn't heal. Eventually, both of her legs had to be amputated. And
> Tony, who wanted to have a nose job because he thought it would make
> him look younger, ended up damaging his nasal bones during the
> procedure; he has since had four additional surgeries to correct the
> problem.
>
> Though plastic surgery is widely used today for non- essential
> cosmetic reasons, we learn that, in fact, it evolved out of necessity.
> One of the doctors interviewed in the film explains that the origins
> of plastic surgery can be traced back to the First World War, when
> many soldiers suffered gunshot wounds to the face. Doctors began to
> recognize that these horrible disfigurements, which often made the men
> social outcasts, could be just as devastating as having a serious
> illness, and developed innovative techniques to reconstruct the face.
> After the 1970s, when breast implants were introduced and plastic
> surgeons started advertising, cosmetic surgery took a steep upward
> trajectory. Today, we learn that "Over 9,000,000 cosmetic surgeries
> are performed each year in the United States." What's rarely
> advertised is the chance of something going wrong: "The total number
> of medical complications is not a matter of public record."
>
> Plastic Disasters was produced and directed by Kate Davis and David
> Heilbroner, who last collaborated on HBO's 2004 documentary Jockey,
> which won an Emmy=AE Award for Outstanding Directing for Non-Fiction
> Programming (Davis). Davis also produced, directed and edited HBO's
> Southern Comfort, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance
> Film Festival and other prizes worldwide. The team's recent efforts
> include Pucker Up: The Fine Art of Whistling, and Scopes: The Battle
> Over America's Soul (for the History Channel's upcoming series 10 Days
> that Unexpectedly Changed America).
>
> ~~~~
>
> www.BreastImplantAwarenes.org
>
> *** Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com ***