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- <text id=90TT1639>
- <title>
- June 25, 1990: American Notes:Surgery
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- SURGERY
- Nose Jobs and The Navy
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Over the past two years Navy plastic surgeons in San Diego
- have performed 544 free nose jobs, face-lifts, liposuctions and
- other cosmetic treatments on officers, sailors and their
- dependents. When the Los Angeles Times disclosed the numbers
- last week, critics castigated the work as a waste of money. The
- Navy defended the practice on the ground that the operations
- helped hone the skills of its physicians.
- </p>
- <p> The Navy showed less charity in a similar case earlier this
- month. After a six-month investigation, the Navy reprimanded
- plastic surgeon Mitchell Grayson, a commander, and fined him
- $2,000. His offense: borrowing surgical instruments to use in
- free operations that repaired the cleft palates and harelips
- of hundreds of Third World children. Grayson has resigned from
- the Navy to practice in Philadelphia.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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