Face Transplants: Medicines New Victory

The whiners who cry about face transplant surgery not being warranted need try walking around the mall for a couple days shopping for Christmas presents and then get back to me about moral and ethical issues. There are no moral or ethical issues. Period. As you read this the Cleveland Clinic in the United States is screening candidates in preparation for the world's first full face transplant. Nothing could be more exciting or moral ethical! The surgeons, who need not defend themselves spoke at a news conference reported in The New York Times. "We are doctors," said Jean-Michel Dubernard, one of the doctors who led the transplant team. "We had a patient with a very severe disfigurement that would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible, to repair with classic surgery." "It's important to recognize that patients who have very severe facial disfigurement have a suicide rate four times that of the general population and a very poor quality of life," said Dr. Malcolm Z. Roth, director of plastic surgery at Maimonides Medical Center in New York City. What a medical victory to be praised. They have got to be a lifesaver for this poor disfigured woman who would have surely lived a miserable existence without their help. Your author knows something about a pretty face I am the World's Number 1 Pick up Artist and the Grand Master of Seduction. Especially in the case of women's self-image, their social and economic success and even their survival can still be determined largely by their beauty and by the men it allows them to attract, while for men these are based largely on how they act and what they accomplish. The point is in particular a woman's face is as important as a heart or a kidney for survival. I don't think you can rule men out of the equation. either. Men too want handsome and rugged faces. You've got to hand it to the French medical team for such an important and more than ethical medical accomplishment.