Episode 93: The Suffering of A Plastic Surgeon

This is gonna hurt. It's time for the sufferings podcast. Our bodies have an expiration date. And from the moment we are born, the clock starts ticking events happen in our lives that leave us with everlasting marks that we would soon like to forget. Whether it's our vanity, hubris, self esteem, or quality of life, we're conscious of how we're presented to the world. Always wishing to show the best of us, the inner beauty projected outward. It is often the most beautiful people who have the most scars. What if there was a magic wand that can erase reminders of the scars that damage our soul? With the flick of a wrist, all our pain is taken away and replaced with peace and fond memories. I'm Kevin Thompson here with Mike Felice. And on this episode of the suffering podcast, we sit down with Dr. Stephanie Cohen to discuss the suffering of a plastic surgeon. Dr. Cohen helps repair the lasting scars and help breathe new life into people maybe leaving some of the old scars behind. Dr. Cohen, thank you so much for joining us. Sure.

My pleasure, Doug, before we get into Could you do anything with this? That was coming to these ones I know I'm sick of looking at this every week. You know, my

primary subject is my husband and he he always asked what can you do with my nose? And I say absolutely nothing. There's nothing I could do to help I wear biggest nostrils you ever

he picks his nose like this.

See, on the other hand, I can't get my finger out my nostril Could you give me bigger nostril?

You'd lucky I can't hit your hit your elbow go right up and stab your brain.

Kevin, you're beautiful.

Before we get his time he's ever heard that but God

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If you get plastic surgery. Could you have a cigar right after to celebrate your third worst thing

you could do? Did you ever see that Seinfeld episode where Kramer was smoking all those cigars his face look like a catcher's mitt. Oh, I

thought you were gonna talk about the junior Men episode.

That's another good one. That's another good surgery. Dr. Cohen, we take questions from our audience every week, this week social media question comes from Kelly. And it says what advice would you give your younger self? So I'm gonna pass this one off to you since you're our guests.

It started off with a really hard

we don't make it easier.

The little, the little Dr. Cohen walks into this room, and what would you what would you tell her?

But that's hard. I you know, it's funny when I was I had this really kind of advanced feeling when I was a kid that I was going to do something like this. And so and I did, so there

was a lifelong dream of yours.

I think it wasn't 100% A dream. It was my dream of my father. For me to be a plastic surgeon or for me to be a surgeon really, to be a doctor. Mostly assert no doctor wasn't good enough. It had to be a surgeon. My father was a gynecologist. And we, yeah, there was no no no getting out of being a surgeon. I was like, he would like whisper to me and my crew. So so it was going to be that or it was going to be nothing. And I was actually an art an artist and I was gonna go to art school. And instead of going to medical school,

we just chose a different art. Well, exactly. So

I had a high school art teacher who said yeah, you know, your dad really wants you to go to medical school and you're good at science. And so you know, you could be an artistic doctor and

your father wasn't a gynecological surgeon. He was yeah, it was a surgeon. Yeah,

he did. vadra place.

No, that's what that's what a plastic surgeon it says classy at the end. That's what a plastics are.

So if you were to go back and talk to that young lady, yeah, gosh, what would I did you? What would you tell her?

I would tell her keep plugging away because it's all going to be okay.

Because when you're younger, you can't see you can't see the long run. You can't see the picture. You know, the light at the end of the tunnel? Yeah, you have to go through all that, you know, the hard work and everything before you get yeah,

there's a lot of hard work to get to plastic surgery. It's a long, long, long, I'm sure. Time. There's, again, I always had this sort of weird feeling that I was going to get there. And that I I knew how to get there. And I was going to do it different than other people. Because you know, when I went into surgery, there weren't a lot of women in surgery. There were very, very few.

So that's a whole other subject. Yeah, no surgeon. Yeah. What do you think?

Oh, yeah, I never aspired to be on a podcast. I know that. And if I were to talk to my younger self, I would have said no to that. You know, just keep pushing ahead. You know, yet you keep coming. back. Yeah, no kidding.

There weren't a lot of people telling me what to do or how to do it, you know, so just I always had this idea that I was going to get there and so myself now would say, you got you know, you did it. You got there. It's it's actually almost harder when you get there and you don't like you're like, Okay, now what do I do?