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As someone who looked into plastic surgery and who has many, many friends that underwent and will undergo plastic surgery, I do know this much:
1. Plastic surgery is dangerous. The fact that it is done for aesthetics does NOT in any way make it less dangerous than non-aesthetic surgeries.
2. Any time you undergo surgery, administration of anesthesia, and being cut open, you risk serious disability or loss of life. Whoever does not realize this, or whoever sees plastic surgery as merely a cosmetic procedure, is delusional.
3. No two people on the earth react the same way to anything. That means that while one procedure might be nothing to someone and they might be up and walking around in no time, it might render another paralyzed. Just as people heal at different rates, people react differently to anesthesia, surgery, etc.
3. Simply because a plastic surgeon is fabulous, careful, famous, well trained, has lots of experience, and has operated on some of the most famous people, does not mean you will not die or be maimed from the surgery.
4. The older or thinner or weaker or sicker or more obese that you are, the more you are at risk of dying on the operating table, but that does not mean you are not at risk if you are young, healthy and strong. No one is immune to dying on the operating table.
5. Sometimes there are simply *NO* explanations for why someone dies on an operating table.
6. Once in a while malpractice will cause someone's death in surgery, and while we all wish it were always malpractice that killed our loved ones when they die in surgery, that is simply not the case. Most of the time it's one or more of the above.
I think the best thing to do before going into surgery, is know you may not come back, get your affairs in order, get healthy, and pray before you go under the knife.
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