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...Hetong, a surgeon at Beijing's No. 402 Hospital, is a pioneer of limb-extension surgery for patients disfigured by birth defects or injury. Since he started offering cosmetic leg-lengthening a few years ago, he has performed more than 600 operations. His patients have grown by an average of 9 cm. More than 70% of the women are college educated. Some who have studied overseas felt inferior because of their lack of stature. "For them, the main purpose of the operation is not to improve their physical health," says Xia. "It is to help their psychological growth...
...backyard.” Tanenhaus also mentions a Dali painting with eyes on a plate, which may or may not have been formative. “It’s kind of a cheap shot,” she says. “If you have a limb where it’s not supposed to be, it’s going to seem weird.” Touche...
...policy will force lawyers to weigh their obligations to clients against their larger duty to society. Read between the lines, and you have an implicit acknowledgment that lawyers could do something to improve their image. "There's been a recognition, particularly when there's a danger to life and limb, that lawyers ought not to be legalistic," says Nancy Moore, a Boston University professor of law who helped draft the proposed new rules...
...arrival of the arm, prayed under her breath as the team continued CPR, then paused for a third time. One doctor felt a faint carotid pulse, another felt a femoral pulse. The blood began to flow on its own. Outside, the ambulance had pulled up. "As soon as his limb came through the door, we got a heartbeat," Miller says...
...While De Campos prepared the stump, Rogers marked the corresponding veins, arteries and nerves with sutures on the severed arm. First, De Campos shortened the arm even more, taking away about an inch of bone so that the stump would hold a plate to keep the limb in place. She clamped the bones together--two screws in the stump, two at the overlap and two more...