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Confessions of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon
CAP LESESNE, M.D.
This book is dedicated to
JOHN M. LESESNE, M.D.,
and
DAVID C. SABISTON, M.D.,
physicians worthy of emulation
Contents
Nasty Surgeons, Not Enough Sleep, and Other Myths
Aging Beauties, Rediscovered Youth
Failures (and What to Ask a Surgeon)
She Dies, You Die: The Royal Treatment
The Limitations of Plastic Surgery
The Politician and the First Lady
I believe in strict patient confidentiality. To honor this principle, names and circumstances have been altered, and the identities of patients are known only to me. In those cases where patients have permitted their names to be used, I have done so.
The names of institutions, teachers, colleagues, staff, and friends are real. The same is true for celebrities – except, again, where they have also been patients.
The nightmare every