Surgery and other medical procedures used to be a private matter. A few years ago at a party, a dear friend who’s a local attorney pulled me into a quiet room. There were deep scars behind her ears and bruising around one eye–the only remnants of her face-lift. “Don’t tell anybody,” she whispered. Another friend, a prominent journalist, once lured me into her bedroom and proudly showed me her breast job. “Do they look real?” she fretted. “I didn’t know who else to ask.” Today they would probably E-mail photos, post them on their Web sites, or write long articles in national magazines.
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MTV’s Tom Green let it all hang out when he ran footage on his show of his cancerous right testicle being removed. Then he started a foundation to help others, called the Tom Green’s Nuts Cancer Fund. No kidding.
