Ethical Concerns on Face Transplant Grow

NY Times ^ | December 6, 2005 | MICHAEL MASON and LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN

[BikerNYC]

Ethical concerns about getting a new face? Go ask Mary Tyler Moore about such things. She has gotten a few new faces.

[Semper Paratus]

Will 'ugly' people want 'pretty' faces as elective surgery?

[bkepley]

In other words it's a typical Frog move, trying to
be first for France.

[RightResponse]

Could you imagine getting Hillary's mouth?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Patching a woman's face with enough living tissue so she can close her mouth - bad.

Killing fetuses for their stem cells - good.

[RightResponse]

Or worse...Monica Lewinsky's!??

[EagleUSA]

I hear Nazi Pelosi is looking for a new face....

[Vicomte13]

Sounds to me like a bunch of folks bitter that someone else did it before they did.

[bkepley]

Sounds to me like a bunch of folks bitter that someone else did it before they did.

I'll give you that, if it turns out to be a success.

[GovernmentShrinker]

That exact point was made in an article I read yesterday, about a French doctor who was criticizing this -- he had clearly been planning to be the first, and was pissed that somebody else broke the rules (which I gather he had a hand in making) and beat him to it. The patronizing talk from doctors quoted in this article is disgusting.

[US admirer]

I wonder if you could ever get the taste out of it?

[finnman69]

Imagine the possibilities for aging Hollywood Surgery junkies?

[zerosix]

The French caught doing something unethical.

[RightResponse]

If she had her vagina transplanted on her face, then would it be sex?

[highlander_UW]

I think the real problem here is that the NYT has an article about ethics. Did they outsource the writing?

[Veto!]

said Dr. L. Scott Levin, chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Duke University Medical Center: "This flies in the face of everything we've tried to do."

An unintentional pun?

[BikerNYC]

If she had her vagina transplanted on her face, then would it be sex?

No, but it would be if it were transplanted on my face.

[RightResponse]

Well stated, and in true Biker fashion....

[Investment Biker]

I am tired about hearing "ethical concerns" from doctors. Try to tell someone without a face that they can't have one because of their ethical concerns, what a bunch of BS. The doctors in this country have turned into a bunch of elitist that control our health. In the founding papers of our country the founders talk about LIFE, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of HAPPINESS. But first we have to ask a doctor if he has any ethical concerns.

And this type of BS is destroying the ability of people to obtain good medical experiments that may save their lives. Now if someone wants a new face and is willing to take the deep risk of immune suppression drugs then what business is it of doctors, the FDA, or anyone else?