Fw: Pan Plastic Terrorists?

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From: " Pam Young (by way of ilena rose) " <sic42001@...>

Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 1:37 PM

Subject: Pan Plastic Terrorists?

> Dear Sisters:

>

> I would like to tell you what the ASPRS (American Society of Plastic &

> reconstructive Surgeons) 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.

>

> In a letter from Dr. Norman Cole (former Pres. of ASPRS) to his

colleagues,

> he writes: " There is no question that your personal efforts to protect a

> woman's right to choose breast implants...have had a tremendous impact. "

> (see document ASP005183)

>

> 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's

> organizations such as NOW, 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 women's organizations who they tricked

> into believing that breast implants & tissue flaps were a woman's choice;

> thus dividing & conquering us.

>

> The ASPRS seems to be a Bully organization, full of Pan Plastic

> Surgeons who are fixated at a teenage sexual stage of development. They

grew

> up during the golden years of Hugh Heftner's Playboy Reign.

>

> As young boys, ASPRS members probably had air-brushed photos of naked

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

even

> masturbated 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 the meaning

of

> the words of Keats. In his poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Keats writes:

> " 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 injured and disabled many women.

>

> 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 Pan Plastic Surgeons,

the

> little boys who never grew up!

>

> Who do you think has more photos of women's naked breasts: Hugh Hefner or

> the plastic surgeons?

>

> Thank you,

> Pam, ASPRS Victim

> Founder of SIC Sisters for Informed Choice

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