cjtheone88 wrote:
Doctor 1 (the horrible doctor who gave me ENS)
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- When trying to fix my septum, this doctor tried straightening it by removing pieces of my septum and hoping the end result would be straight. With him being a plastic surgeon, I thought he'd fix my septum using plastic, or at least know how to. Little did I know, the word "plastic" in plastic surgery or plastic surgeons is a huge overstatement of a term, perhaps even a lie. .....
In the term plastic surgery, the adjective plastic denotes sculpting or reshaping, which is derived from the Greek plastikē (tekhnē), “the art of modelling” of malleable flesh. The surgical definition of "plastic" first appeared in 1839. It predates the modern "engineering material made from petroleum" sense of plastic (coined by Leo Baekeland in 1909) by seventy years.