| Local ER crunch highlights national problem
An Oakland mother's frustration with her daughter's treatment at Hackensack University Medical Center has become a national example of what's wrong with America's emergency rooms. "My story is everyone's story, yet it shouldn't be anyone's story," Elizabeth Kobb said in a House hearing room in Washington on Wednesday. She, along with the American College of Emergency Physicians, was pressing for a federal law to improve emergency care. .
Our Greatest Danger: TV Violence
Forget the war in Iraq, skyrocketing prices at the gas pump, outsourcing jobs, the need for healthcare, education, and housing, Congress may take on the BIG issue that confronts this crippled nation -- too much violence and gore on TV (that's gore with a little g, not the man who won a presidential election). .
Woman dies after liposuction
VICTORIA's Coroner will investigate the death of a woman this week, three days after she had cosmetic surgery to remove fat. Lauren James, 26, who was treated at a Caulfield North surgery centre, died on Monday after complaining of bleeding and pain over the weekend. Her family vowed yesterday to join any call for tougher regulation of the vanity surgery industry if the coroner found her death was linked to the liposuction. "If it turns out that it was the surgery that caused Lauren's death, we would want to prevent it happening to someone else," he said. Dr Norm Olbourne, a spokesman for the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, said regulation was needed in vanity surgery. Yesterday, her family paid tribute to her selflessness and inner beauty.
Cosmetic surgery: It's getting ugly
When you look in the mirror do you say to yourself, "I wish I could change my (fill in the blank)"? If so, you are not alone. The percentage of people who are considering cosmetic surgery is increasing dramatically each year.
Why should it not be increasing, people are getting uglier each year. Lips are getting skinner by the month, bellies flabbier by the week, and my god do not get me started on the noses I see on a daily basis. It's hideous, I tell you.
a majority of the people surveyed who indicated they hoped to have cosmetic surgery in the future were women, and young adults; men are by no means happy with what they are working with, literally. The number one reason cited for why men want cosmetic surgery is the belief that an individual's appearance is key for professional success, according to CNN.com.
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