Ok, there was a report about about a disgusting procedure during which, among other things, the patient’s legs are broken in order for the legs to grow longer.   The young woman was perfectly healthy and nothing was wrong with her legs.  Is THIS medical advancement?

The medical community is justifiably concerned about what Michael Jackson’s celebrity doctor prescribed for him.  Why did Michael Jackson have Diprivan in his house? Because he asked for it? Wasn’t the physician supposed to exercise independent, medical judgment and SAY NO?  The slope gets slippery . . . . . why didn’t the doctors say no to this young woman who wanted her legs lengthened to achieve some random estimation of “beauty”?

Nothing is going to stop rogue doctors from doing crazy things.  But we need a health care system that (i) gives doctors financial rewards for being good doctors who say “no” when necessary and (ii) takes away any incentives to go down that slippery slope.