Tales from a Plastic Surgeon

I saw the TV series FRIENDS for the first time when I was in college. Me and my brother used to watch it on our desktop. Sometimes we used to catch an episode or two on Star world. But as I moved out after graduation and into residency I hardly watched TV. Knowing my love for the TV series my brother even gifted me the whole DVD set few years ago. But I hardly ever got a chance to go through it. The COVID lockdown gave me the opportunity to go through the entire 10 seasons uninterrupted. Being a FRIENDS fanatic I decided to analyse and put it in words why I like the series so much. There may be many other 90s kids like me out there who love it too, so this is for them. 1.Discover 'What you are' in life. The first episode of FRIENDS started with Rachel eloping from her own wedding. As a  teenager I always thought what a fool she was. Why would anyone give away a life of privilege and security  to become a waitress? But when she was made to cut all her daddy's credit car...

Malathi, a 35 year old house wife was otherwise fit and fine. But she was bothered about the deep scar over her left cheek. She suffered with a condition called lupus panniculitis due to which, the subcutaneous fat in her left cheek got absorbed leaving a hollowed out appearance. Due to this deformity, she would refrain from attending weddings and social functions and remained confined to her household duties. But a brief consultation, allowed her to overcome this deformity easily with minimal downtime by undergoing a procedure called fat grafting. Fat is usually considered an unwanted part of out body and many of us just want to get rid of it. But this store of fat in our body when used judiciously can work wonders in enhancing certain areas of our body and correcting contour abnormalities. The technique of harvesting fat from one's own body and using it to enhance or correct some other part of the body is called fat grafting. This technique has been known to the plas...