Cosmetic Surgery: Before, Between and After

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Summary: Excellent step-by-step guide
Review: Cosmetic Surgery Before, Between and After by Susan Gail is a must read if you are considering cosmetic surgery. It is loaded with valuable information that helps in the decision- making process and when interviewing surgeons. It greatly increased my effectiveness in the interviews and certainly enhanced my courage. It made an uncomfortable process as comfortable and peaceful as possible. In addition, the advice about preparing for surgery and for the post-operative time is invaluable and practical. It is an excellent step-by-step guide that walks the reader through the whole process. Not only is it thorough, but it is entertaining as well.


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Summary: Tricia Isono, San Diego
Review: Ever since my friends and I reached our mid-40's, a frequent topic of our conversations has been the possibility of having cosmetic surgery. Susan Gail's personal account of her experience from start to finish is amazing! I feel confident that I now have insightful information based on an experienced skin care specialist's research. When I decide to have this surgery, I will do it with much more knowledge than I had before I read this book. I think it is also marvelous to have the option of a Survive and Thrive Kit from someone who picked the best products available.

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Summary: Your Book Is a Lifesaver!
Review: Fantastic book that honestly tells the patient-to-be exactly what to expect in researching a doctor, deciding on what surgery is best and taking responsibility for our own recovery. Bravo Susan! Also, thank you!

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Summary: Desperately Needed a Professional Editor
Review: I bought this book because the reviews were so glowing. The information may be valuable, however, the prose is so dense, redundant and sprinkled with new-age philosophy/silliness that I find it hard to slog through. In fact, her style is so "California" it verges on satire, like something a character from the Steve Martin/Sarah Jessica Parker "L.A. Story" would have written.

There is some good information in this book and I wish this book had been accepted by a respected publisher. A professional editing job would have been able to cast out the chaff from the wheat and readers would have been spared all the distracting and self-indulgent flourishes (is it important to know how much she likes keeping a *spiral* journal using *rolling ball writer* pens?).

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Summary: Cosmetic Surgery Before Between and After
Review: In Cosmetic Surgery Before Between and After, Susan Gail revels the nitty-gritty about cosemtic surgery from her own experience. Having read the book and having had cosmetic surgery, I consider it a "must read." In addition to the book, Susan offers an indispensible after-surgery "Survival Kit." It saved me countless hours of putting together essential items that make healing easier and faster. Even if your surgery is in the future, buy the book now -- there is a lot to learn. Cosmetic Surgery Before Between and After will help you make good choices when you are ready.

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Summary: Covers all aspects of FACELIFTS, not much else though
Review: In Cosmetic Surgery Before Between and After, Susan Gail revels the nitty-gritty about cosemtic surgery from her own experience. Having read the book and having had cosmetic surgery, I consider it a "must read." In addition to the book, Susan offers an indispensible after-surgery "Survival Kit." It saved me countless hours of putting together essential items that make healing easier and faster. Even if your surgery is in the future, buy the book now -- there is a lot to learn. Cosmetic Surgery Before Between and After will help you make good choices when you are ready.

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Summary: Honest, smart, helpful supportive advise...
Review: In doing research on some of the emotional hurtles one might encounter before, during and after cosmetic surgery here on Amazon.com, I found this book by Susan Gail. I received it and read it in one day, it was so interesting and helpful, even though I had my cosmestic surgery 1.5 years ago. I felt like I was listening to a friend who had gone through some of the same issues I had, even though we had different surgery. Susan Gail is compassionate, funny, and honest in her approach to this subject about which few have written. As a psychotherapist, I'm going to use her book in my Cosmetic Surgery Survivors Support Groups beginning in September, 2004 in Del Mar, CA. I highly recommmend this book! Thank you for writing it, Susan Gail!

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Summary: Don't Even THINK of having a face lift without reading this!
Review: Lucky me. I just happened to see a review of this book in a local magazine and since I had already scheduled my face lift, I hurried home and bought it on-line. I'm soooooo glad I did. The book was very enlightening. It was an easy read (I read the whole book, taking notes, in about an hour). I liked the fact that she was brave enough to include her own photos of the entire process. The very best part is that she offers a "Survival Kit" that contains EVERYTHING needed to recoup from the surgery. I just received my kit today and I am thrilled! If you are thinking about cosmetic surgery, this is a MUST read!

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Summary: Don't Even THINK of having a face lift without reading this!
Review: Lucky me. I just happened to see a review of this book in a local magazine and since I had already scheduled my face lift, I hurried home and bought it on-line. I'm soooooo glad I did. The book was very enlightening. It was an easy read (I read the whole book, taking notes, in about an hour). I liked the fact that she was brave enough to include her own photos of the entire process. The very best part is that she offers a "Survival Kit" that contains EVERYTHING needed to recoup from the surgery. I just received my kit today and I am thrilled! If you are thinking about cosmetic surgery, this is a MUST read!

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Summary: Considering a face lift? Read this book!
Review: Susan Gail has written a user friendly guide to having facial cosmetic surgery. She fills in the gaps between what her doctor told her and what she really needed to know to take care of herself , all the practical details. How does one look, eat, bathe, sleep, cope, and survive the few days and weeks after a facelift? I would recommend this very thorough planning guide to anyone thinking about this procedure. An easy read that prepares one for hard realities!