Fw: The ASPRS---Fixated Little Boys

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From: " Pam Young (by way of ilena rose) " <SIC2001@...>

Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 12:52 PM

Subject: The ASPRS---Fixated Little Boys

> Dear Sisters:

> I would like to tell you what the ASPRS has done for us. Documents from

> the Breast Implant Depository show that in Nov. 1990 a memo from

> Ann Woodbury, who was connected to the ASPRS, made breast cancer

> patients a marketing target for the ASPRS.

>

> This memo states: " With 88,000 new cases of breast cancer occurring in

> white women per year in the United States and with mastectomy being the

> most common first therapy, the reconstructive field would appear to be a

> major potential market. "

>

> Along with this memo are about 20 pages of documents showing every State

> in the U.S. and analysis of plastic surgeons compared to the potential

> market of breast cancer victims.

>

> A Jan. 20, 1992 letter from Dr. Bell (ASPRS) to Dr. Norman Cole

> (Pres. of ASPRS) states: " I am appalled by the national panic that now

> exists over a series of anecdotal and scientfically unsubstantiated

> observations about silicone breast implants...The American Civil

> Liberties Union would seem to be an ideal medium via which we might

> raise our constitutional objections. "

>

> A Feb. 3, 1992 letter from Dr. C. to Dr. Norman Cole,

> states: " If it is proven that there is a chronic low-grade immune

> stimulus caused by gel bleed from silicone gel implants, and if this

> results in autoimmune complications in a small percentage of patients,

> it is also possible that there might be positive results that could

> result from this chronic immune stimulation. "

>

> An April 4, 1992 letter from Dr. Lu Feng to Dr. Norman Cole (ASPRS)

> states: " During the tumultuous confrontation between the one hundred or

> so members of the OVSPRS and me on April 3rd...I felt I was being put on

> trial and being interrogated, execution style, by the leadership of the

> ASPRS...I was very disappointed that not one person at the meeting asked

> me about the nature of the illnesses these patients are suffering. The

> focus was solely and entirerly on their own livelihoods... "

>

> In a Feb. 3, 1993 letter from Dr. P. Gruber (ASPRS) to Dr.

> G. Hoehn, Gruber states: " I believe that cooperation with the FDA

> invites further restrictions and therefore suggest the following option.

> Encourage and provide financial contributions to one of the women's

> organization that is willing to take legal action against the FDA for

> its failure to allow freedom of choice. "

>

> In Plastic Surgery Update (Winter 1996) prepared by the ASPRS, Dr.

> A. Korentager states: " It is, therefore, the job of physicians

> and plastic surgeons not only to anatomically reconstruct the breast

> mound, but to help patients understand that contemplating breast

> reconstruction is wholesome and natural, and is an integral part of

> breast cancer treatment. "

>

> Korentager goes on to say, " In recognition of Dr. Carl Hartrampf's work

> in the development of the TRAM flap, the American Medical Association

> presented him its prestigious Scientific Achievement Award for 1995. He

> was also chosen to receive the American Cancer Society's Distinguished

> Service Award for 1995. "

>

> Statistics from ASPS 1999 record a 180% increase in breast

> reconstructions from 1992 thru 1999. The 2000 breast surgery statistics

> show Tissue Flaps as being 31% of all breast reconstructions performed.

> This demonstrates that implants are not the main focus, anymore, but

> plastic surgeons are moving on into selling tissue flaps.

>

> However, a 2001 American Cancer Society research report, Quality of

> Life after Breast Carcinoma Surgery, states: " In fact, mastectomy with

> reconstruction is associated with greater mood disturbance and poorer

> well-being. "

>

> Perhaps the " divide and conquer " strategy not only applies to women, but

> to the members of the ASPRS!

>

> Dr. Lu Feng was NOT the only plastic surgeon to voice objection to

> ASPRS's agenda.

>

> A Feb. 18, 1992 letter from Dr. Henry D. Onken, states: " I have learned

> more about the problems associated with migrating silicone gel from the

> Wall Street Journal and the New York Times in the last 6 weeks than I

> have from the ASPRS...The lack of real scientific information coming

> from our Society...reduce the ASPRS to another Trade Organization

> howling for its share of the medical dollar.

>

> Maybe the ASPRS is starting to crumble from the inside. Perhaps it is

> experiencing the same fate as the Republican Party---a division between

> the moderate & radical factions.

>

> It is my opinion that the ASPRS is a Bully organization, full of little

> boys who are fixated at a teenage sexual stage. They grew up during the

> golden years of Hugh Heftner's Playboy reign.

>

> As young boys, ASPRS members probably had photos of naked Playboy

> Centerfolds taped to the walls of their bedrooms. They may have even

> masterbated or had " wet dreams " about the beautiful breasts that they

> would create someday as plastic surgeons.

>

> Beauty to a young boy is the appearance of the physical body. They are

> sexually excited by visual images of women's breasts.

>

> But, as a boy grows up out of that stage, he comes to realize what the

> meaning of the words of Keats in the poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn:

> " Beauty is truth, truth beauty. "

>

> Real beauty is not a man-made breast created from silicone or muscle &

> fat. Real beauty is TRUTH---the truth of admitting that breast implants

> & tissue flaps have failed.

>

> Maybe there are some grown up men in the ASPRS. I do hope so because if

> there are they need to stand up for the TRUTH.

> They need to look at the ugly, mutilated breasts that they have created,

> and quit hiding the truth from " mommy. "

>

> Their breast reconstruction experiments have failed. Their man-made

> breasts are ugly, and they need to admit to the truth. We know they have

> failed, because women have put their photos on the Internet to show the

> world how mutilated they are because of the little boys who never grew

> up!

>

> Thank you,

> Pam Young

> ASPRS Victim

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