In September my scrub nurse, Charlotte, and I went to Armenia to operate. Gagik Stamboltsyan, one of the surgeons that Yale plastic surgeon Dr. Stephen Ariyan had trained after the 1998 Spitak, Armenia earthquake had come with his son to the American Association of Plastic Surgeons meeting in 2015 to honor Dr. Ariyan in his […]
Read MoreMy third book, The Face of Trauma, is nearly complete, with 9 of the 10 chapters written, illustrations being produced by Dr. Ruston Sanchez, and our childhood trauma research about to be processed with the physicians and biostatisticians at the University of Wisconsin. Like last year, I took two weeks in February to hide out […]
Read MoreI just returned from two weeks at the Flying E Ranch in Wickenburg, Arizona, where I went to work on my new book. I know the manager and her husband and several of the wranglers pretty well, so when I stepped out of my monk-like existence in the bunkhouse, I had some nice visits with […]
Read MoreTen days ago I returned from a week long workshop in Carefree, Arizona. Competition to be included in the workshop was keen, and of course I was the only plastic surgeon among 25 therapists, most of them very experienced. During that week we got the details of the effects of childhood abuse and neglect on a child’s sense […]
Read MoreI am currently in the process of writing my third book on the link between childhood abuse or neglect, body image, and plastic surgery. My clinical research has shown that childhood trauma is very common in my plastic surgery patients, and the patients who had surgery in order to increase their feelings of self-worth and […]
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