This is the final week of senior surgical clerkship that I am in plastic and reconstructive surgery. Sincerely I hope this will be my last week of surgical clerkship as a medical student!
This epic finale begins with an introductory lecture from Prof. AB. First of the foremost, it is about the definition of PRS in true medical context. Well, this specialty has been misunderstood by the public for a long time. Perhaps some will just consider plastic surgeons a service-provider to those who can afford to pay, for the sake of beauty.
The professor said "Some people have structural abnormalities of their appearance (skins, mainly) and need to have reconstruction surgery. This is a major part of our duty. Another part is, we perform surgery for the sake of cosmesis." Don't underestimate the relationship between your outlook and your "health". After all, as WHO stresses, health is a combination of physical health, mental and social health, not just the absence of disease.
In this case, a beautiful face can ensure a good physical health, lift up our mind, and subsequently, enable us to make a better social circle. (That's certainly an important function of our appearance: some even suggest it helps our ultimate goal of living: to mate.)
But what is beauty? What is in the surgeons' mind (or the client's mind) when they want to make a beautiful face?
P.S. For the information of Facebook philosophers, this is perhaps one of the earliest philosophical questions since the time of Plato (or even earlier).
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