The Plastic Surgery Junkies Touched by the Ugly Stick ; Tv Watch

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Hollywood Lives ITV1

MEDICINE may be a serious scientific discipline, but it's just as susceptible to fashion as any other branch of human endeavour, and each decade witnesses a craze for one form of unnecessary surgery or another.

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The Plastic Surgery Junkies Touched by the Ugly Stick ; Tv Watch

In the Fifties, they whipped out your adenoids (except in the case of Melvyn Bragg, who mistakenly had an extra couple of sets put in), in the Sixties they wanted your tonsils, in the Seventies your appendix, and 20 years ago expectant mothers suddenly began to be ca...

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