Dr Fredric Brandt, pictured here with fan Kelly Ripa
In this article [tirade], Piers Morgan trashes physician Fredric Brandt for what he claims to be exploitation of client vanity. You can read the article for yourself. Suffice to say, Morgan is no stranger to sensationalizing cultural hot buttons.
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The following link explores the world Dr. Brandt and the pursuit of physical perfection. I will follow up with a discussion of vanity among middle-aged men, and their insatiable pursuit of “relevance” as they see it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3029107/PICTURE-EXCLUSIVE-Famed-plastic-surgeon-Dr-Fredric-Brandt-s-high-school-photos-reveal-handsome-student-suicide-doctor-object-ridicule-Tina-Fey-s-NetFlix-show.html
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Like everything else in life, you can eat too many cheeseburgers. Once in a while is fine. Every day and you’re a walking dead man.
Same is true of fitness.
After a certain age, if you workout 7 days a week, 3 hours a day you’re going to end up in the hospital.
Cut it back to 1 hour a day, 6 days a week – with good diet and lots of rest – and you can go on and on and on.
When it comes to the other “maintenance” most people refer to as plastic surgery, the same logic applies.
If your laugh lines look like ravines in photo ops, you can visit a dermatologist and a dermal filler erase them in 5 minutes.
But if you’re back every week for another procedure, I might suggest a psychiatrist.
As a middle-aged man the disastrous effects this quest for perfection has on people is impossible to miss.
Most of these people never saw a needle they didn’t like.
And it’s not like you’re going to be dissuaded by physicians who pursue this area of medicine for everything but altruism.
It’s big business, and they’re masters of monetizing insecurity.
Most physicians in this trade only see the credit card, not the self-esteem on life support.
So get a grip.
Having said this, when surgeries get to a point where even the physician refuses further procedures on ethical grounds, it’s usually a business decision tied to a patient’s sudden resemblance to fish.
