Plastic Surgeon in Hot Water
Michael Salzhauer, a Miami plastic surgeon, is getting some heat about a video he produced. The piece is about rhinoplasty and it is called “Jewcan Sam”. Dr. Salzhauer, the band and the video director are all Orthodox Jews but the American Society of Plastic Surgeons is still going ahead with an investigation into whether Salzhauer violated the group’s code of ethics to “uphold the dignity and honor of the medical profession”. Are you kidding me? First of all, plastic surgeons is not the specialty group ANYONE would use as an example to uphold the dignity and honor of the medical profession. That being said, some people need to lighten up. I am more amazed that this video caused any controversy with all the crap I pulled over the years with the Placebo Journal. I am almost jealous of him now.
Looks like someone got their nose in a snit… maybe they all should can that snit-fit, look in the mirror and consider if they need to see a good Rhinoplastologist with a sense of humor and self-deprecation.
Here’s the difference: you really like people, and treasure members of H. sapiens in all their variations. Heavy-handed, or maybe “heavy-prosed”, as you are, there is actually an innocence in your candor and cynicism. You proceed from hopefulness and a “one day… maybe… with a little humor… perhaps a bit of reframing and an epiphany, with or without alcohol…. c’mon folks, we can try again….” perspective.
You remember old Eric Berne, MD – who, by the way, had a great schnoz. You start off with, “I’m OK, you’re OK.” Others…. not so much. For them, it’s “I’m OK, You WOULD be OK if only you….” Fill in what you like. Then try that one on your lover or children. See if they remember your birthday.
Physicians – real doctors – do not teach or exemplify or practice contingent moral obligations to those who come to them in pain. Which is why we are not executioners (although we see the inevitable). You take care of Rick Santorum, you take care of Vladimir Putin. You patch them up, and you send them back out onto the street to resolve their differences. If you’re a doc, you’re a fucking doc. Period. It ain’t what you do. It’s who you are. That’s what the Society of Plastic Surgeons are saying. Even a neurologist knows that.
A resourceful physician, when approached by that unhappy schmuck in the video, would simply have congratulated him on that nose: one MORE way to pleasure the unsuspecting schiksa maiden far more deeply than she has ever known.
You might choose not to print this, of course.
oops. sorry, missed the h-link
so make with the video!