So you want to be an international plastic surgeon? Plastic and reconstructive surgery visits china.

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Perspective is a priceless gift. The last time I was in China was 1989, before the Tiananmen Square protests. I lectured all over China for over a month as part of a Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation scholarship. The changes since then have been transformational, both for China as a whole and for plastic surgery. I often forget how fortunate we are and how much we take for granted in the United States, both materially and especially in terms of state-of-the-art health care and the plastic surgery education we enjoy. Being immersed in an academic center, our "norm