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Soaring Cosmetic Surgery: Women Cajoling Doctors to Get it Done

Scotland National Newspaper:

Women are persuading doctors to perform cosmetic surgery on the national health service by exaggerating their unhappiness with their looks.

Research has revealed that surgeons are being cajoled into offering patients thousands of pounds worth of treatment they do not need.

It exposes the lengths to which some women go to persuade surgeons to operate on them for nothing - using ploys such as unflattering make-up and clothing.

Among the operations being offered free are tummy tucks, breast implants and nose jobs.

Surgeons claim the soaring demand for cosmetic surgery on the NHS is putting a huge strain on resources. They say many patients are placing doctors in an impossible position by refusing to accept they cannot have free surgery.

Until recently, it has only been available in exceptional cases, for example, when patients are extremely disfigured or need corrective work following an accident.

... But the latest study, to be published in the British Journal of Plastic Surgery, finds surgeons are turning a blind eye to the rules because of pressure from patients.

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