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Plastic surgery
not for all
United Press International
NEW YORK — A Harvard
plastic surgeon has alerted
colleagues to watch out for
certain types of patients — in
cluding one he calls “plasti-
surgiholics.”
The plasti-surgiholic is the
seeker and bearer of multiple
operations, Dr. Robert M.
Goldyn said.
“She needs a psychiatrist,
not a plastic surgeon,” the cli
nical professor of surgery at
Harvard Medical School, said
at a seminar held at Rockefel
ler University and sponsored
by the American Society of
Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgeons.
Goldyn said fellow plastic
surgeons should be on the
lookout also for other be
haviors that may signal a pa
tient is not psychologically
suited to undergo plastic or
reconstructive surgery.
“Doctors like challenges,
but in certain cases, they
should refuse to operate on
patients who truly require no
surgery, or on patients not
otherwise healthy.”
In addition to plasti-
surgiholics, surgeons were
told to view as possibly poor
candidates the following:
—The patient who writes a
long, pleading letter to
arrange the initial consulta
tion. “The patient is revealing
he or she is a neurotic, rigid
person who wishes to control
every item in life.”
—The rude or pushy pa
tient. “This patient wants to be
treated as an exception and
may, perhaps, not accept in
structions later on, becoming
hostile if the slightest thing
should go awry.”
—The unkempt patient. “A
dirty or slovenly appearance
may indicate a severely dis
turbed personality, and a
physician should ask about
the abuse of drugs and
alcohol.”
—The patient who makes
the doctor’s office her home.
“These patients who aggres
sively rummage around your
office are women who wish to
be in control by establishing
an immediate intimacy.”
—The patient who refuses
to undress for proper exami
nation or who refuses to be
photographed. “Unwilling
ness in this area prevents the
surgeon from having an ade
quate record for planning.”
—The patient who praises
you excessively and deni
grates your colleagues. “This
individual may wish to en
courage a surgeon to do an
operation whose result he or
she will never like.”
—The patient with minimal
deformity. “The worse com
bination for a satisfactory sur
gical result is the patient with
maximal concern about a
minimal deformity.”
—The shopper. “The sur
gical shopper not only looks
for the lowest fee, but for the
surgeon who will guarantee
the result.”
—The acquiescing patient.
“This patient wants surgery to
please someone else, often to
save a failing marriage; it is a
form of masochism in which
no surgeon should get in
volved.”
—The paranoid or de
pressed patient.
Armadillos stylish
for Texas furrier
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — Call it the
big armadillo roundup.
If an enterprising furrier has
his way, 20,000 Texas armadil
los soon may sacrifice their
tough armored hides to become
the latest cowboy fashion fad.
Bill Wallace is promoting
armadillos for clothing accessor
ies.
“We’ve been thinking about
working with armadillos for sev
eral years. Now, we’ve come up
with the right formulas on tan
ning. and we’ve decided to make
hatbands, belt buckles, belts,
hatpins, bolo (string) ties and
whatever else,” he said.
The hide is not the only part
of the odd-looking mammal that
will be used in cowboy clothing,
Wallace said.
“We’re using the armadillo
head on bolo ties. We’re using
armadillo feet as an accessory on
a hatband and also the tail as a
. hatband accessory.”
People have been snaring or
picking up armadillos since Wal
lace began advertising in Texas
newspapers for the animals ear
lier this year.
“Hunters go and shoot the
armadillo then bring it to our
pickup points each week and sell
it to us,” Wallace said. He pays
$2.50 apiece for armadillos peo
ple bring to him at his B & W Fur
Co. in Halletsville midway be
tween San Antonio and
Houston.
Wallace said the tough hides
will be tanned by an overseas
firm through an ages-old pro
cess called vegetable tanning
that uses extracts from plant
roots. He plans to market the
final products to Westernwear
stores.
His armadillo business is just
beginning but Wallace said,
“There’s just nothing to com
pare to armadillo as far as some
thing that’s a beautiful piece of
leather.”
The armadillo round-up may
even provide a service to land-
owners.
“Armadillos dig up gardens
and lawns, digging for grub,”
the furrier said. “Ranches in
central Texas are overrun with
armadillos. They dig holes and a
cow or a horse steps in it. We’ve
had people tell us they’ve got
their leg broken stepping in an
armadillo den, and their holes
are a favorite place for rattles
nakes, too.”
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September 30,1982
Jazz impressario blows own horn
United Press Internationa]
NEWPORT, R.I. — George
Wein, the jazz impresario whose
piano talents became dwarfed
by his music festival empire, is
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as a promoter but as a per
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Wein and his band, the New
port All-Stars, haven’t played
any gigs since the late 1960s,
when his attention turned full
time to bringing jazz to millions
of people around the world.
Besides Wein on the
keyboards, the group includes
cornetist Ruby Braff, tenor sax
ophonist Scott Hamilton, Slam jazz by age 15
Stewart on bass, trombonist
Eddie Hubbell and drummer
Oliver Jackson.
improvisation, he was playing club, and his production!
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Wein played classical piano
from 1933 to 1938. Preferring
After graduation from Bos
ton University, he got a $90-a-
week job as a pianist in a Chinese
restaurant. He was then hired to
assemble groups to play at a local
Wein leased a room;
ton’s old Copley Square 1
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