| Spanish plastic surgery show draws fire |
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| Tuesday, 03 April 2007 | |
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"We feel it's an attack on the dignity of women," said Ruben Sanchez of the consumer rights organisation FACUA. "It presents a vision of cosmetic surgery as though it were the same as going shopping in the supermarket." Feminist groups called it "sexist and deceptive", and a trade body of doctors said that "free surgery in exchange for participating in a media spectacle" violates the principle of patient consent. "Perhaps what the women on the programme need is a psychologist, not a barrage of surgical interventions," said Carmen Flores, leader of a patients' rights lobby group, the Defensor del Paciente. "To have surgery because maybe your husband will leave you for a prettier woman is incredible. As a woman, I feel offended." Ms Flores added that she had sent a letter to the Prime Minister demanding that the show be taken off the air. There was no comment from the Prime Minister's office as to whether he was inclined to take instructions from the head of a lobby group and implement media censorship because a TV program had offended her sense of morals. Javier de Benito, president-elect of the international plastic surgery society and medical consultant to the show, said that he was surprised at the outrage. "It's a very professional, respectful programme," he said. "Surgeons select the patients and care is taken to avoid upsetting scenes." "Spain likes controversy," he added. "We've also been called racist because we didn't choose an immigrant." |
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