THE REAL REASON THAT PLASTIC SURGEON WALKED OFF LARRY KING

As someone who looked into plastic surgery and who has many, many friends that underwent and will undergo plastic surgery, I do know this much:

1. Plastic surgery is dangerous. The fact that it is done for aesthetics does NOT in any way make it less dangerous than non-aesthetic surgeries.

2. Any time you undergo surgery, administration of anesthesia, and being cut open, you risk serious disability or loss of life. Whoever does not realize this, or whoever sees plastic surgery as merely a cosmetic procedure, is delusional.

3. No two people on the earth react the same way to anything. That means that while one procedure might be nothing to someone and they might be up and walking around in no time, it might render another paralyzed. Just as people heal at different rates, people react differently to anesthesia, surgery, etc.

3. Simply because a plastic surgeon is fabulous, careful, famous, well trained, has lots of experience, and has operated on some of the most famous people, does not mean you will not die or be maimed from the surgery.

4. The older or thinner or weaker or sicker or more obese that you are, the more you are at risk of dying on the operating table, but that does not mean you are not at risk if you are young, healthy and strong. No one is immune to dying on the operating table.

5. Sometimes there are simply *NO* explanations for why someone dies on an operating table.

6. Once in a while malpractice will cause someone's death in surgery, and while we all wish it were always malpractice that killed our loved ones when they die in surgery, that is simply not the case. Most of the time it's one or more of the above.

I think the best thing to do before going into surgery, is know you may not come back, get your affairs in order, get healthy, and pray before you go under the knife.

It's true. The hounding aspect of the cable news coverage of this story just baffles me. Until the autopsy results are complete and made public, everything is just speculation. There seems to be some inverse ratio to cable news coverage: the fewer the facts, the greater the coverage.

Meanwhile, they make plastic surgery out to be some fun little beautification like a makeup application.

You have many good points, but it's all about managing risks. I try to be neutral when talking with friends and never judgmental. Sometimes people end up much happier, too.

They can keep Kanye West and Joran van der Sloot in the news, they feel better for not reporting on McLellan/Plame or Kucinich/Impeachment/HR 3835...

All we need now is for Britney/Lindsay/Paris to get a run in a stocking while shopping on Black Friday.