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Software engineers from big tech firms like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are paying at least $75,000 to get 3 inches taller, a leg-lengthening surgeon says [They break the patients' legs. Recovery is long and painful.]
Business Insider via Yahoo ^ | September 15, 2022 | Katie Canales

Posted on 09/16/2022 8:47:26 AM PDT by grundle

Workers from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are paying $75,000 to be taller, a surgeon told GQ.

The Las Vegas surgeon can lengthen patients' legs via a painful months-long process.

He breaks the thigh bones and inserts nails that are extended every day for three months.

A Las Vegas cosmetic surgeon who specializes in leg-lengthening procedures that can extend people's height by 3 to 6 inches told GQ magazine that many of his patients are tech workers.

Kevin Debiparshad founded LimbplastX Institute in 2016, and the clinic's business has boomed during the pandemic, he told GQ.

Here's how it works: The doctor breaks the patients' femurs, or thigh bones, and inserts metal nails into them that can be adjusted. The nails are extended a tiny bit every day for three months with a magnetic remote control, GQ reported.

It can take months to slowly lengthen the bones and for the legs to heal. One software engineer told GQ he spent the first three months after his surgery alone in his apartment and ordered delivery food during that time to go from 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-9.

The procedure costs between $70,000 and $150,000, depending on whether the patient wants to grow 3, 4, 5, or 6 inches, GQ said.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: kevindebiparshad; medicalmalpractice
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To: grundle

People are still doing this? That’s an awful lot of expense and pain to go through for something that may have only intrinsic value. Maybe your fortunes will change for the better, maybe not. Those experiencing no change might want their money back, but then, you can’t give back any new growth, can you. That is Elective Surgery that probably won’t be covered unless a Psychologist supports it.

I’m a 5’8” guy who lied to myself, the DMV, the Navy, my Doctors for years. I told everybody I was 5’10”.
Then one day at a doctor’s appt. a young, cute Nurse Assistant put me on one of those old fashioned metal scales with the sliding discs, and she (loudly!) declared I was 5’8” !! I about died, right then and there. “There must be some mistake!”
It was then, I knew it was time to stop lying to myself and that nobody else really cared one way or another.


21 posted on 09/16/2022 9:02:16 AM PDT by lee martell ( )
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To: AlaskaErik

So maybe they can take a couple inches of bone from your legs give to a Google software engineer. You’re shorter they’re taller! You convalesce together. Win! Win!

:)


22 posted on 09/16/2022 9:04:06 AM PDT by Reily
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To: grundle

I saw a bbc show years ago, “The life and loves of a she-devil”, where the main character did just that!


23 posted on 09/16/2022 9:04:13 AM PDT by ValleyofHope (Anti-marxist ally)
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Any surgeon that agrees to do this should have his\her license revoked!


24 posted on 09/16/2022 9:05:08 AM PDT by Reily
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To: grundle
How about some more Covid and Monkey Pox boosters while you're in for a service.

If it ain't broke don't mess with what you don't understand. It's one of the fundament rules of engineering.

25 posted on 09/16/2022 9:07:14 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: dsrtsage

Don’t these people understand Aaron Clarey’s being sarcastic when he says “just go be taller” to get da gurlza?


26 posted on 09/16/2022 9:07:52 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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To: grundle

Can we get any more stupid?


27 posted on 09/16/2022 9:09:26 AM PDT by caver
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To: dfwgator

28 posted on 09/16/2022 9:11:58 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: srmanuel

The article says mostly men, but I wouldn’t doubt you’re right. If I tried that trick I’d look like a flamingo.


29 posted on 09/16/2022 9:11:59 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
It would be nice to be taller.

Only if you're a guy. Tall chicks have far, far fewer options, especially for clothes and footwear.

I hate to break it to the fellas having this surgery, but their lack of stature isn't their real problem.

And surgery won't fix it.

30 posted on 09/16/2022 9:14:18 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: grundle
I had a friend who liked men in her own height range - around 5'6". She said it was much easier to have sex standing up.
31 posted on 09/16/2022 9:16:25 AM PDT by FalloutShelterGirl (Cool! I found my original screen name!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Yes because women are totally happy with who they are.

High heels. Makeup. Different color contact lenses. Fake eyelashes. Fake hair. Weight surgeries. Implants, of every kind. Clothes that suck areas in, and push others out.

Tattoos. Dyed hair. Fake nails. Fake colored nails. Plastic surgery. Genital rejuvination surgery because a truckload of dudes went through there.


32 posted on 09/16/2022 9:19:29 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: mewzilla

I wonder if the males, I won’t call them men, having or contemplating this surgery discriminate against tall women in the workplace....


33 posted on 09/16/2022 9:19:41 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: grundle
There's simping and then there's surgical simping.

Since this is in GQ magazine, I assume it's overblown out of all proportion and those handful who are getting surgery are men trying to attract other men.

34 posted on 09/16/2022 9:22:05 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: dsrtsage

“Men must be 6 feet tall, have 6 figure incomes, and have 6 pack abs as well as some other 6s. “

I listened to a woman doctor talk about this. She said, “They want men over six feet. That’s only 15%. They want them handsome. Cut that in half. They want them to be high earners. Cut that in half again.”

I noticed that many black male employees at the defense contractor where I worked would wear their knee-length blue Electrostatic Discharge bright blue smocks while shopping even on days when the plant was closed. I asked one why. He said, “nothing says you got a job like this smock. I’ve had women chase me down in the parking lot.”


35 posted on 09/16/2022 9:24:44 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: grundle

Most of these Silicon Valley software engineers are leftists, so it stands to reason that they’re f***ing morons enough to do something like this.


36 posted on 09/16/2022 9:25:55 AM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: Reily

Naah. They just remove the femurs from Ughyrs over in Communist China and sell them for hard cash.

They remove those first. Heart, kidneys, liver, and lungs can all come out later for hard cash.


37 posted on 09/16/2022 9:27:20 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: FalloutShelterGirl
I had a friend who liked men in her own height range - around 5'6". She said it was much easier to have sex standing up.

Precisely why many Baptist congregations don't allow sex standing up. Might lead to dancing.

38 posted on 09/16/2022 9:27:22 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: grundle

Tall people get promoted faster and are viewed as more capable.

Same reason for coloring your hair or getting other plastic surgery


39 posted on 09/16/2022 9:27:26 AM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: redgolum

“He has executive hair, we think it will turn silver.” - Dilbert


40 posted on 09/16/2022 9:28:15 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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