To Sculpt and Preserve

“I can’t understand what they are so upset about,” says Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, plastic surgeon Luiz Fernando Dacosta. He has put up a billboard of a nude woman to showcase his surgical talents. “She shows off well the perfect lines of the human body, which is the major goal of plastic surgery,” he said. But critics disagree. “Doctors have an obligation to be moderate and he was not,” complained a spokesman for the Regional Council of Medicine. “A billboard of a nude woman like this exposes the whole medical establishment to ridicule.” (Reuters) ...Only because they can’t make everyone look like that.