Wednesday's Assignment

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Wednesday's Assignment

Do you like the way you look? What could you do? What kind of healthcare practitioner could help your looks? According to the first paragraph of this article, can you pay for cosmetic surgery using your health card?

1-Check out this article on an expensive procedure:
1.From the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs (beginning "Marcel ..." and "By 2012"), what specialists might be involved?

Marcel, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, started his transition four years ago. The first step was hormone replacement therapy, a ritual of two-millimetre needles of testosterone that he will give himself every day for the rest of his life. For the first few months of the therapy, Marcel rode his bike from downtown Toronto to suburban Mississauga to receive his shots from a transgender-friendly doctor.

By 2012, Marcel was ready for top surgery – a bilateral mastectomy. At Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the only institution in the province at which reassignment surgeries are covered by health insurance, a queue had formed. Faced with a minimum wait of two years, he scrounged up as much money as he could—a loan from his sister, funds raised by friends, paycheques from a nine-to-five job—and had the surgery at a private clinic. The procedure set him back $6,000. Today, Marcel awaits one last surgical procedure: lower reassignment surgery.

• Cosmetic specialist.
• Specialist transgender.
•  Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
• Physician who specializes in transgender
• Dermatologist.
• Gynecologist.

2.Find the dollar values in the article and identify the various costs.

 $8000 To $100,000

• plastic surgery=the process of reconstructing or repairing parts of the body, especially by the transfer of tissue, either in the treatment of injury or for cosmetic reasons.
• Botox=a drug prepared from the bacterial toxin botulin, used medically to treat certain muscular conditions and cosmetically to remove wrinkles by temporarily paralyzing facial muscles.
• wrinkles and sagging skin=a slight line or fold in something, especially fabric or the skin of the face.
•  facelifts= Cosmetic surgical operation to remove unwanted wrinkles by tightening the skin of the face.
• tummy tucks=The reasons why someone may choose to have a tummy tuck include having excess skin, stretch marks or loose abdominal muscles.