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Largest review of office-based plastic surgery confirms safety in accredited facilities

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. A study examining plastic surgery procedures performed in accredited outpatient facilities found that office-based surgery is as safe as surgery performed in hospitals. The study published in July's Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery® (PRS), the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), reviewed more than 1.1 million procedures and found the mortality rate to be significantly less than one percent or 0.002 percent.

"The study shows that plastic surgery in accredited facilities is safe and deaths are rare," said ASPS Member Surgeon Geoffrey Keyes, MD, study co-author. "However, people should consider plastic surgery with the same seriousness as medically necessary surgery. Most importantly, patients should have their procedure performed by an ASPS Member Surgeon in an accredited facility."

The study reviewed data collected from January 2001 through June 2006 by The American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities (AAAASF), which mandates biannual reporting of all complications and fatalities. The data was obtained from facilities accredited by the AAAASF, which requires that surgeons be board-certified and have credentials at a hospital to perform any procedure being contemplated at an office-based facility. The ASPS requires all of its Member Surgeons to operate only in accredited or licensed facilities.

The study found deaths occurring at office-based surgery facilities are rare. More than 1.1 million operative procedures in AAAASF-accredited office-based outpatient surgery centers were studied from 2001-2006. Deaths were infrequent, occurring 2.02 in 100,000 procedures or 0.002 percent, which is comparable to the overall risk of such procedures performed in hospital surgery facilities. The vast majority of deaths were due to pulmonary embolism (a blood clot that travels to the lungs, blocking major blood vessels). Pulmonary embolism is an uncommon cause of death associated with any type of surgery whether elective or medically necessary.

These new findings contribute to a growing safety record for office-based surgery procedures. A 2004 PRS journal study examined 400,000 operative procedures in AAAASF-accredited office-based outpatient surgery centers from 2001-2002 and found that death occurred in 1 in 59,000 procedures or 0.0017 percent.

"While all surgery carries risks, the bottom line is that this study illustrates patients can and should feel safe when they go to an ASPS Member Surgeon who performs their procedures in an accredited facility," said ASPS President Richard D'Amico, MD. "Amazingly, only 14 states mandate accreditation of facilities, so it's up to the patient to be knowledgeable. A patient's safety and life is everything."

Nearly 11.8 million cosmetic surgery procedures were performed in 2007, up 59 percent since 2000, according to ASPS statistics. Fifty-nine percent of cosmetic surgery procedures were performed in an office-based facility, 21 percent in a free-standing ambulatory surgical facility, and 20 percent in a hospital.

Source: American Society of Plastic Surgeons

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Do U use your left or right sides of your brain?

If you see this lady turning in clockwise you are using your right brain.
If you see it her turning the other way, you are using left brain.
Some people do see both ways when they watch for a minute or two, but most people see it only one way.

See if you can make her go one way and then the other by shifting the brain's current.
BOTH DIRECTIONS CAN BE SEEN .

Experimentation has shown that the two different sides or hemispheres of the brain are responsible for different manners of thinking. The following table illustrates the differences between left-brain and right-brain thinking:

Left Brain Right Brain
Logical Random
Sequential Intuitive
Rational Holistic
Analytical Synthesizing
Objective Subjective
Looks at parts Looks at wholes

Most individuals have a distinct preference for one of these styles of thinking. Some, however, are more whole-brained and equally adept at both modes. In general, schools tend to favour left-brain modes of thinking, while downplaying the right-brain activities. Left-brain scholastic subjects focus on logical thinking, analysis, and accuracy. Right-brained subjects, on the other hand, focus on aesthetics, feeling, and creativity.

If you look away, she may switch from one direction to the other.

I found that if I just look at her feet or relax and look at the floor where the reflection shows, she will switch direction!

Interesting Story, well written.

10/24/2008)

By Joseph L. Galloway
McClatchy Newspapers
This is an autumn of great discontent as not just the United States, but
the entire world trembles on the brink of an economic recession that may
bring the kind of pain that's known only to the oldest among us.
With days to go before Election Day, the country watches as a
presidential candidate and his political party unravel, frantically
dragging every ugly ghost out of the closet in an attempt not only to
fool everyone, but also to scare everyone.
They appeal to the worst remnants of racism that cling like kudzu to a
dying magnolia. Their robot phone dialers intrude on millions of uneasy
citizens with messages of hate and fear and envy and greed.
They try to paper their opponent with guilt by association: He
associated with a man who, decades before they ever met, belonged to a
group of wild-eyed student revolutionaries.
They and their forces of darkness falsely claim that he is a Muslim at
the same time they attack him for belonging to a Christian church whose
black minister aimed angry sermons at white America.
They have presided for the last eight years over a stunning
redistribution of wealth: They've turned Robin Hood upside down, taking
from the poor and the middle class and giving to the very rich.
Yet they tar their opponent for daring to suggest that it's time to turn
the tables and redirect some of that wealth to those who are jobless,
homeless and hopeless, and to the millions of other hard-working
Americans who are likely to join those growing ranks in the months and
years to come.
They call him a socialist for embracing a principle that's rooted deeply
in the teachings of the Christianity that they wear on their sleeves but
cannot find room for in their hearts.
They promise to "correct the mistakes" of their own president, their own
members of Congress, their own appointed overseers and regulators, if
only we give them another chance.
They promise to punish the Wall Street tycoons and the big bankers who
in their greed built this house of cards that's crashing down onto Main
Street. Yes they will. Surely they will smite the robber barons who
brushed a few crumbs from their groaning tables of riches into the laps
of the very people who now say they'll punish these malefactors of great
wealth.
They say this even as the barons, bulging with bonuses and commissions,
pick over the carcass of a fallen economy gouging out a tasty morsel or
two more for themselves.
Is it any wonder that Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin and the
Republican Party are sinking like the Titanic? Do they take us all for
complete morons? Granted, they may have reason to think that. After all,
we not only elected George W. Bush our president, we also re-elected him
to a second term. In so doing, we sowed the wind, and now we are reaping
the whirlwind.
Fooled us twice, they think, so maybe the third time is charmed.
That, however, doesn't seem likely as a cold, hard winter looms this
November. Not likely at all.
Here's a prediction for you, for them: McCain and Palin will go down to
defeat by 15 to 20 points, and they'll take a heap of Republicans down
with them to ignominious defeat.
The financial collapse and the painful fallout that's stalking the
nation won't be righted overnight. Putting Barack Obama in the White
House and giving the Democrats a veto-proof majority in Congress won't
mean that happy days are here again.
Hard work, sacrifice and suffering lie ahead. It could take a decade or
two to repair all the damage that Bush, Dick Cheney and all those
Republican congressmen in prison, out of prison and en route to prison
have done to our economy, our military, our standing in the world, our
Constitution and to civil discourse and competent governance.
In the meantime, we Americans would do well to try to remember all those
things that our grandmothers told us about getting by in hard times.
How to get by on a lot less. How to grow a vegetable garden.
How to squeeze a nickel till the buffalo bellows.
How to appreciate the small joys of family and friends.
How to share what you have, no matter how little you have, with those
who have nothing...

So this is what the 85 Billion Dollars our Tax Money went to purchase?