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If Plastic Surgery Won’t Convince You, What Will? (free boob job for nurses)
NYT ^ | 05/25/09 | DAN BILEFSKY

Posted on 05/25/2009 9:56:39 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

If Plastic Surgery Won’t Convince You, What Will?

By DAN BILEFSKY

PRAGUE — When Petra Kalivodova, a 31-year-old nurse, was considering whether to renew her contract at a private health clinic here, special perks helped clinch the deal: free German lessons, five weeks of vacation, and a range of plastic-surgery options, including complimentary silicone-enhanced breasts.

“I would rather have plastic surgery than a free car,” said Ms. Kalivodova, who opted for cosmetic breast surgery that would normally cost €2,600, or about $3,500, as well as liposuction on her thighs and stomach. These were physical enhancements, she said, that she could not afford on her €1,000 a month salary.

“I feel better when I look in the mirror,” she added. “We were always taught that if a nurse is nice, intelligent, loves her work and looks attractive, then patients will recover faster.”

Petra Kalivodova, 31, a nurse, was motivated to accept an offer from the Iscare Clinic in Prague by complimentary cosmetic breast surgery.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: breastimplant; czech; nurse; shortage
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1 posted on 05/25/2009 9:56:39 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; PAR35; AndyJackson; Thane_Banquo; nicksaunt; MadLibDisease; happygrl; ...
Financially strained American nurses should sign up for stint in Czech Republic, getting a steady job and a free boob job.
2 posted on 05/25/2009 9:57:47 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Czech Girls are pretty and that accent is cool.


3 posted on 05/25/2009 10:00:10 PM PDT by IDFbunny
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Not a great angle, but them boobages that she’s got there look just fine to me.

How ‘bout an infusion of common sense?


4 posted on 05/25/2009 10:01:19 PM PDT by incredulous joe ("No road is too long with good company" - Turkish Proverb)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Since my wife is a nurse, I’m all for this!


5 posted on 05/25/2009 10:01:29 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: TigerLikesRooster
I would rather have plastic surgery than a free car,” said Ms. Kalivodova

IMO, that's sick.

6 posted on 05/25/2009 10:01:54 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: TigerLikesRooster

She doesn’t look like she needs anything but some common sense.


7 posted on 05/25/2009 10:03:10 PM PDT by llevrok (A feral conservative in my own land.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
I have said it before and I will say ti again. If a woman wants to mutilate her body in order to look more attractive, her first choice should be a lip plate.


8 posted on 05/25/2009 10:03:45 PM PDT by TChad
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To: IDFbunny

We get Russian “Svetlanas’ working at the beach in Delaware.

Beautiful young women! Hard workers. Killer accents! Fine boobages.

But check out the ankles for the shape of things to come after childbirthing!


9 posted on 05/25/2009 10:04:51 PM PDT by incredulous joe ("No road is too long with good company" - Turkish Proverb)
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To: Larry Lucido; sit-rep; wardaddy

German lessons an new hooters ......ROTFLMAO !!!


10 posted on 05/25/2009 10:04:54 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The nurses I know in the US are making far, far more than 1000 Euros a month.


11 posted on 05/25/2009 10:05:39 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Considering everything that nurses do for us, it is the least we can do for them.

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12 posted on 05/25/2009 10:06:15 PM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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To: MediaMole

What will male RNs in the US get?


13 posted on 05/25/2009 10:06:59 PM PDT by incredulous joe ("No road is too long with good company" - Turkish Proverb)
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To: incredulous joe

Wide open question alert. . .


14 posted on 05/25/2009 10:07:48 PM PDT by stentorian conservative (I'm tired of being Johnny B. Goode and I'm gonna start being Johnny Reb.)
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To: incredulous joe

The bill


15 posted on 05/25/2009 10:12:03 PM PDT by greatdefender (If You Want Peace.....Prepare For War)
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To: kcvl

I wonder which one her husband would have more fun with.


16 posted on 05/25/2009 10:18:33 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: greatdefender

www.instantrimshot.com


17 posted on 05/25/2009 10:19:27 PM PDT by incredulous joe ("No road is too long with good company" - Turkish Proverb)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
You get your left enhancement now. You only get your right one upon completion of the contract.
18 posted on 05/25/2009 10:19:42 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (No free man bows to a foreign king.)
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To: kcvl
I would rather have plastic surgery than a free car,” said Ms. Kalivodova

IMO, that's sick.

Why? With bigger boobs, she won't have problems getting rides or even cars.

19 posted on 05/25/2009 10:22:01 PM PDT by JRios1968 (The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
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To: incredulous joe

“What will male RNs in the US get?”

From me, a request for a foxy female replacement!


20 posted on 05/25/2009 10:26:13 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Of course she would rather have free boobs! With that some stupid man will buy her the car!


21 posted on 05/25/2009 10:26:54 PM PDT by Morgana (Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. --Georg Lichtenberg)
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To: incredulous joe

lol!!!!

Thanks!!!


22 posted on 05/25/2009 10:27:45 PM PDT by greatdefender (If You Want Peace.....Prepare For War)
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To: dalereed

Well some of them...the male RN’s that is, could get lipo and have the spare tire removed!


23 posted on 05/25/2009 10:28:20 PM PDT by Morgana (Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. --Georg Lichtenberg)
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To: incredulous joe

Many of the male RNs will want the boob jobs.


24 posted on 05/25/2009 10:29:11 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: incredulous joe; llevrok
> Not a great angle, but them boobages that she’s got there look just fine to me.

Is the picture pre- or post- boob-job? If pre-, then I'm inclined to agree. But if that pic was taken afterward, then perhaps the lady had cause. Her comments indicate she's already had the surgery.

She looks just fine... in that pic.

25 posted on 05/25/2009 10:30:43 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: MediaMole

“Many of the male RNs will want the boob jobs.”

never thought of that....so take their spare tire and make it into boobs!


26 posted on 05/25/2009 10:32:20 PM PDT by Morgana (Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. --Georg Lichtenberg)
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To: incredulous joe
What will male RNs in the US get?

Lifetime supply of Extenze?

27 posted on 05/25/2009 10:32:46 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: Squantos

One of my nurses was a pretty big breated blonde Ukrainian gal....I felt like Bob Fosse.

we need more nurses here in the US

if they’re hot then give em whatever they want

no more mean Jamaican granny nurses please...

lest it need be said I am all for immediate residency for all good looking women “immigrants”

our female gene pool needs some “thinning”.....those eastern European and Balkan gals look like just the ticket


28 posted on 05/25/2009 10:38:14 PM PDT by wardaddy (Obama .....you are not my friend.)
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To: Morgana; Squantos
have the spare tire removed!

why?

it's just Cinderella fat...

29 posted on 05/25/2009 10:39:49 PM PDT by wardaddy (Obama .....you are not my friend.)
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To: wardaddy

This is gonna be a good thread .......


30 posted on 05/25/2009 10:52:07 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: dalereed

LOL ditto!


31 posted on 05/25/2009 10:53:00 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“We were always taught that if a nurse is nice, intelligent, loves her work and looks attractive, then patients will recover faster.”

Im so glad we don’t have to put up with nurses like this in America. Its so much nicer to have our clip-haired, women in scrubs who could give a flying fornication about looking attractive to the patient. Somewhere, there was a crossroads,,,,


32 posted on 05/25/2009 11:04:16 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
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To: Syncro

I just had 6” of my colon whacked off and at least I had a sweet little Irish nurse prep me for surgery and not some fag!


33 posted on 05/25/2009 11:05:27 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: kcvl

*I would rather have plastic surgery than a free car,” said Ms. Kalivodova

IMO, that’s sick.*

Depends—how long is the warranty on the tits?


34 posted on 05/25/2009 11:21:21 PM PDT by j-damn
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To: j-damn

Until someone punctures a hole in one I guess.

The fake ones will fall just like the real ones unless she keeps getting boob jobs.


35 posted on 05/25/2009 11:22:53 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: wardaddy

“no more mean Jamaican granny nurses please...”

Bite your tongue. My wife’s Jamaican and she and ALL her sisters are HOTTIES. I’ve also known some Jamaican nurses and they are HARDLY the type you describe. Now, on the OTHER hand, some Filipina nurses I’ve seen... (and even some of THEM are hotties, if you are not THAT interested in mammarial size).


36 posted on 05/25/2009 11:27:44 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: j-damn
.....how long is the warranty on the tits?

I could come up with a slight rewording of the 36,000 mile or 3 year warranty for cars, but it would get my a$$ pitched right off the forum real quick like ;^)

37 posted on 05/25/2009 11:35:29 PM PDT by The Cajun (Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
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To: dcwusmc

I spent many years in Jamaica....long story but I was engaged to a Desnoes and Geddes heiress.

The prettiest women in Jamaican were Chinese mixed...in my view

The Jamaican nurses I dealt with were Ratchetts when I had surgery at Mt Sinai in Manhattan in NYC.

nothing personal but I never thought Jamaica was overrun with babes like say Caracas or Rio but to each his own

when I say I know Jamaica....I really know Jamaica...every Parish from Hanover to St Thomas...beautiful country, the prettiest by far in the Caribbean and the country people are very kind and inviting with great manners......or at least were but in Town and place like Bog walk, Clarendon and whatnot...forget it......Jamaica has problems that are just awful...still better than Haiti or Camden NJ as a rule

I came very close to buying Minard plantation in St Anns...my favorite parish....near Brownstown...400 acres, two great houses, one was featured in Wide Saragasso Sea movie....pimenta trees, cattle and a small lumber mill for only 360,000 US back in 87...but the fear of gunmen even then was palpable...not a place I wanted to raise a family

haven’t been there since 91


38 posted on 05/25/2009 11:40:35 PM PDT by wardaddy (Obama .....you are not my friend.)
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To: incredulous joe

What will male RNs in the US get?

Women like Petra with enhanced bodily aesthetics - another of the benefits of ´trickle down´ economics.

We Bust em and Verify


39 posted on 05/26/2009 12:22:37 AM PDT by A'elian' nation
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Women who have breast implants may have the appearance of good breast function but may have impaired function.

According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), any kind of breast surgery, including breast implant surgery, makes it at least three times more likely that a woman trying to breastfeed will have an inadequate milk supply (lactation insufficiency). The IOM based that conclusion on a number of studies of women with breast implants or other breast surgery.


40 posted on 05/26/2009 12:33:56 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Obama Administration is a blueprint for Fabian Socialism.)
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To: ansel12

Whatever they want.


41 posted on 05/26/2009 1:08:36 AM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: incredulous joe
We get Russian “Svetlanas’ working at the beach in Delaware. Beautiful young women! Hard workers. Killer accents! Fine boobages.

Amazing how many Russina and Eastern Europeans work in OC, Rehoboth, Bethany etc. They have taken over the summer job market. And talk about hotties!

43 posted on 05/26/2009 1:53:01 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
I hate fake boobs. They just seem...breakable, and on a good day they probably are.

It's nice for cosmetic recovery for cancer, but as a method for enhancing self esteem, they simply aren't attractive and they are entirely obvious.

I had a Peruana girlfriend who decided to have augmentation done in Peru. She felt that she needed "a lift". The scars were terrible. I know that's not common, but not everyone heals the same.

It's just a lesson on why you should not engage in non-necessary surgery.

I've got more to say but I think I'll just let it sit in the silly looking grin I've got on my face right now. Cheers!

44 posted on 05/26/2009 2:19:25 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Or she could emigrate to the US and earn 3 or 4 times the salary she is getting in the Czech Republic.


45 posted on 05/26/2009 2:50:39 AM PDT by iowamark (certified by Michael Steele as "ugly and incendiary")
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To: Caipirabob
This isn’t so much directed at you as to all who think breast enhancement is bad.

...but as a method for enhancing self esteem, they simply aren't attractive and they are entirely obvious.

I've seen some monstrosities in movies, but I know several women who've had enhancement. Their new breasts look good (none went for the DDD size) and no noticeable scars. It did wonders for their outlook and personality.
I was talking to a young woman last week who was saving up for a boob job. She’s in her mid 20s but because of her AA size she has to go into the Misses section to buy a bra - embarrassing for her. I told her I thought she has cute little boobs. I used the wrong term. She doesn’t want “cute little”, she wants pretty adult size.
It’s easy to set back and say that it shouldn’t matter - but it does. It’s easy to say we should be happy with what we were born with, but that’s not the way life is.
Most people enhance their attractiveness in some way. Most women use makeup, hair styles and clothing styles to enhance their appearance. Plastic surgery is the same, just more invasive. Even men do things to enhance their appearance - hair, clothes, gym memberships or home exercise equipment. Plastic surgery for men is gaining rapidly in popularity.
I even enhance my appearance - I have a beard and long hair, I look much better with it this way than with short hair and clean shaven.

46 posted on 05/26/2009 3:22:24 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: incredulous joe

Some of us(male RN’s like myself)can get 45 to 60 dollars/hr on travel assignments...many hospital top salaries are in the 30 to 50 dollar range, not counting overtime which is worked often to cover short staffing. Starting salaries vary depending on the institution yet average around 20 to 22 dollars an hour for new grads. 50k is often a an advertised starting salary for new grads in hospitals. Nurse managers and directors make more and nurse anesthetists can go beyond 150k/year as do Nurse Practitioners in some specialties.

Nursing homes are usually 20 percent less and top scale hardly reaches 25/hr for them, for RN’s that is and many NH’s hire LPN’s to do the bulk of the work because it is cheaper.

Home care nurses who are salaried but agree to to do per diem visits on the side can really rake in bucks.

Now with Obama care in the offen and its attempt to shift 1/7th of the economy(read dollars) into the federal government pipe-line, nursing will see lay-offs or at the least massive erosions of hard won gains in pay, benefits, and working conditions. Never will there be a need for for more nurses as folks age, but there won’t be the money to fund the system without some rationing scheme. Nurses will be facing cut backs and layoffs and will be told they have to do more with less staff and supplies.

Yet I know the mind-set of the folks I work with and the bean counters who think the fear of economics will keep nurses working in deteriorating conditions are badly miscaculating. Nurses don’t like impossible conditions that might kill patients...they will walk away!


47 posted on 05/26/2009 4:13:12 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: wardaddy

You got that right.Move’em to the front of the line.


48 posted on 05/26/2009 4:22:43 AM PDT by imahawk (Life is tough.It's even tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Squantos

lol...


49 posted on 05/26/2009 4:36:21 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: incredulous joe
Picture Smilin’ Bob, grinnin’ back atcha
50 posted on 05/26/2009 5:32:21 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Tyranny is always whimsical." Mark Steyn 3/9/2009)
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