Back in the days of Franklin Roosevelt, media discussion of a President's health problems was distinctly off-limits. Although FDR was paralyzed from the waist down due to polio, he was rarely photographed in public in his wheelchair or wearing his leg braces. Decades later, President Kennedy was afforded almost the same media blackout in... Read more
A recent Newsweek article, entitled "A New Reason To Frown", calls into question the safety of Botox treatments. It reports the results of an Italian study, published earlier this month in the Journal of Neuroscience, in which rats' whiskers were injected with botulinum toxin. However, what is not pointed out in the Newsweek article is that this... Read more
When I went skiing with my family last month, I took my sun protection to new lengths, donning a black ski mask that, when combined with my goggles and helmet, completely covered my face except for the very tip of my nose which I protected with mineral powder sunscreen. My children teased me that I looked like a cross between a ninja and a... Read more
One of the defining moments of my career as a cosmetic surgeon is the first time I treated a patient with a dermal filler, over fifteen years ago during my dermatology residency at the University of Chicago. The patient was a woman who had been plagued with acne throughout her adolescence, and the resultant scarring had ravaged both her... Read more
In a recent New York Times article, a psychiatrist writes of the defensive, embarrassed or even angry reactions a physician can receive when approaching people in public with concerns about their health, such as an irregular-looking mole or a possibly enlarged thyroid gland. On a number of occasions during my medical career, I, too, have put... Read more
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