nose1 wrote:

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.

Yes, I learned that definition the hard way, but you have to admit it is a horrible way to use that word. To us, plastic means plastic. But for ENTS, 1+1 doesnt equal 2, it equals whatever they say it is. Well, the doctor who fixed my septum perfectly using that special plastic was the true defition of a plastic surgeon, I mean he fixed it so easily and he had so much confidence in himself. To me, he is truly the best doctor I ever meant, and thats say alot for the ENT field.