Article: Program offers final touches to cosmetic surgery

Call it one-stop shopping for a new you.

It's the new Mercy Medical Center's cosmetic surgery program, whose staff also includes a personal trainer and state bodybuilding champion and an "aesthetician" who also works in a Maryland salon. While it offers the typical face lifts, breast enhancement, tummy tucks, fat suctioning, skin peels, eyelid shaping and injections to erase veins, it also offers massages, "hair presentation," cosmetic advice and personal fashion shopping.

"A few years ago, I realized that a patient was coming in for a breast change or liposuction, and it wasn't giving them everything they were looking for," said Dean Kane, medical co-director of the new program. "They were ...

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