The Times points to a disturbing new trend today: doctors trained as, say, gynecologists who are up and switching over to cosmetic surgery because it's more lucrative. The article highlights a medical "spa" that opened in Brooklyn in January, and whose doctor is very pleased, thank you very much, with her new profession.

But we more than a little alarmed at this bit about the docs' qualifications:

For their part, some doctors from other fields contend that the latest cosmetic procedures, like facial injections and vein removal, are far less complicated and risky than Caesarean sections or appendectomies and that the fundamentals can be learned in continuing-education classes.

More Doctors Turning to the Business of Beauty [NYT]
Payout for Footballer's Wife After Botched Surgery [The Herald]

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