Posted March 08, 2012 in Blog, Plastic Surgery in the News, Rhinoplasty, Uncategorized
Pinocchio: Oh, look! My nose! What`s happened?
The Blue Fairy: Perhaps you haven`t been telling the truth, Pinocchio.
Jiminy Cricket: Perhaps?
The Blue Fairy: A lie keeps growing and growing until it`s as plain as the nose on your face.
Since early childhood we knew that when Pinocchio told a lie his nose would grow larger. In the recent case of an Egyptian botched nose job incident, a gentleman’s nose was made smaller and he lied.
They are calling it the curious case of the nose job in Egypt. Not since Cleopatra has aesthetics been so in the Cairo news. Anwar Bilkimy, an ultraconservative Islamist member of the newly elected Egyptian parliamnent attempted to “mask” his nasal plastic surgery by convincing fellow lawmakers that his bandaged and bruised face resulted from an attack by thugs. Ironically, Bilkimy is a member of the parliament’s subcommittee on health! He initially drew the sympathy of his colleagues when they visited him at the hospital, that was until one of his physicians, Dr. Mahmoud Nassef (any relation to “Housewives of Beverly Hills” Paul?) stunned by the lie that crossed the bounds of religion and vanity, told investigators the truth. Bilkimy immediately submitted his resigation from parliament in public embarrassment.
Though cosmetic surgery in Beverly Hills and Encino is not condemned as tampering with God’s creation as it is by many ultraconservative Islamists, we too are asked by many of our patients to be party to a “fib” about their surgery. “Please don’t show my before and after photos to anyone, I want them to think I was born this way”, “We are having her rhinoplasty done this summer between middle school and her new high school, we don’t want anyone to know”, “I’m doing this while my husband is out of town”, and “I’ll just say that I bumped into a cabinet” are often heard around our office. We respect our patients privacy and wishes, but don’t be angry with us when we bump into you in public and “don’t remember where we know you from.”
Be well…and remember what the Blue Fairy told our friend, “Now, remember, Pinocchio, be a good boy. And always let your conscience be your guide.”
Dr Michael Persky and Dr. Sarmela Sunder are located in Encino, California and Beverly Hills, California (The Lasky Clinic) but service all of Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. Including, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Hancock Park, Brentwood, Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Calabasas, Woodland Hills, Tarzana, Westlake, Thousand Oaks, Agoura Hills and more. Please subscribe to our blog by clicking the link above, right. Thank you!
