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Dianne Robbins (1738 KP) rated Playing God: The Evolution of a Modern Surgeon in Books

Dec 6, 2019  
Playing God: The Evolution of a Modern Surgeon
Playing God: The Evolution of a Modern Surgeon
Dr. Anthony Youn | 2019 | Biography, Essays, Medical & Veterinary
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
The author's humility, compassion, and empathy. (2 more)
The writing style
Humor and fun stories
I enjoyed this book for the most part. It was nice to read about his training, getting started, and opening a practice. The part of him in a Jimmy Buffet cover band was hilarious. He had compassion and empathy and gave me a better impression of plastic surgeons. I like his humility, as well. I'd always assumed they were into perfection and not about improving the lives of regular individuals with tragic backstories. Towards the end of the book, though, when he had an established practice, he did tend to veer in that direction, which was unpleasant, but hopefully, he's not like that in real life. To constantly look at a person and imagine how much better they can look or to feel disgusted because of the way they look must make a very unhappy life.
  
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David Schwartz recommended Videodrome (1983) in Movies (curated)

 
Videodrome (1983)
Videodrome (1983)
1983 | Horror, Sci-Fi
7.9 (14 Ratings)
Movie Favorite Watch

"David Cronenberg’s reflexive masterpiece of modern horror, with James Woods as a seedy purveyor of soft-core exploitation for cable TV, and Debbie Harry as his siren, brought the media-as-message theories of fellow Torontonian Marshall McLuhan to visceral life. This was one of the first movies I rented on VHS, and Videodrome is partly an exploration of the strange, clunky physical sensation attached to the idea of a feature film being available on a paperback-size plastic-and-tape cassette that is inserted into a machine . . . and our brains. A quarter century later, Cronenberg’s dazzling vision of a world where image and flesh are one—“long live the new flesh”—Videodrome’s futuristic vision is timelier than ever. And above all that, the movie is sexy, smart, funny, and fascinating, moving adeptly between its layers of reality, imagination, and that vast territory in between."

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