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Medical Ethics Concerns

Glenn McGee, director of the Center for Bioethics at Albany Medical College in New York, said of Avner, "Cosmetic surgery is a practice based on informed consent that needs to balance the risks with the benefits. It is possible to have a coherent view that is nonetheless detrimental to one's well-being. This is a patient who's being harmed by medicine in the interest of his tradition."

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