The NYT reports on the dark side of plastic surgery:
Each is presented as a plastic surgery victim possessed of a heroic survival story. And that is what the filmmakers boil it down to: superficial survival tales, devoid of the most basic biographical details, including the patients' last names, locations, ages and professions. Physically, the most horribly scarred is Mona, who had been an avid bowler. After seeing television advertisements for a local cosmetic surgery center, she underwent liposuction. But her intestines were perforated during the procedure, she says, and she was hospitalized with a massive infection in her abdomen. That was just the start of her troubles. After operations to repair her intestines, she developed bedsores — most likely because she is a diabetic with poor blood circulation — that left her with huge scars. Then veins in one foot collapsed and gangrene set in. Doctors amputated one of her legs above the knee, then the other.