Retail plus medicine equals “retailicine.”

A presenter at the Congress on Aesthetic Vaginal Surgery, Tuscon, AZ, 2010. From the June 2011 issue of The Atlantic.

There’s just so much wrong with this I don’t know where to start.

For one, there’s this: which is worse? That there are women who apparently choose to reshape their genitals in “the Barbie”? Or that “retailicine” may be the most perfect description of the state of modern American healthcare I have ever seen?

(via politicalprof)

Just going to leave this right here while I go weep in a corner.


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