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The New Face Lift

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the so-much-for-biometrics dept.

RiotXIX writes to tell us that US surgeons plan on moving forward with their newest experimental medical practice, a face transplant. Doctors have already succeeded in making this practice a reality with cadavers donated for medical research and will soon begin interviewing a shortlist of patients to determine who, if anyone, will be first up for this procedure. From the article: 'The chance it will work is around 50% and experts have expressed safety and ethical concerns about the procedure. The recipient would have to take powerful anti-rejection drugs for life, which carry considerable long-term health risks, says the Royal College of Surgeons of England, which formed a working party to look at the issue earlier this year.'

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  1. Movie about this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I saw a movie about this once where one guy takes his face/off and changes it with another guy who also takes his face/off. Anyway, they end up chasing each other around for a while and eventually face/off to fight.

    I think it was called "Two Guys that Traded Faces".

    1. Re:Movie about this? by dnhughes · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think you are thinking about the new Discovery Health reality show called "Trading Faces"

      Sorry, couldn't resist.

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      "When I die, I want to go quietly, like my grandfather, in his sleep... not screaming, like the passengers in his car."
  2. Anyone know... by TheOtherAgentM · · Score: 5, Funny

    if Brad Pitt is a donor? I could really use the sex.

    1. Re:Anyone know... by Johnboi+Waltune · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't think Brad Pitt would be very interested in having sex with you. So, your best bet is to wait until he has passed out from the anesthesia.

      Good luck!

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      "The advanced societies of the future will be driven by competing systems of psychopathology." -JG Ballard
  3. Been done before... by jnadke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Michael Jackson had this done years ago.

  4. Re:Ugh by Jubalicious · · Score: 5, Funny

    Castor Troy: It's like looking in a mirror. Only... not.

  5. Re:Ugh by Eric+Giguere · · Score: 5, Funny

    The chance it will work is around 50%

    I'm not sure anymore, are we talking about face transplants or John Travolta's recent movie work?

    Eric
    Sample chapter from my latest book
  6. I See Dead People by FrankDrebin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Doctors have already succeeded in making this practice a reality with cadavers

    Let me get this straight. Doctors have "succeeded" in attaching one dead guys face to another dead guys skull. No problems with rejection, I take it. And the recipient hardly looked any worse than before the transplant, I mean, considering the bastards were dead, I'm guessing the failure rate was not very low.

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  7. Re:let me be the first to say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I'd be a little weirded out if someone started walking around with my dead wife's face"

    me too, especially as I thought it was still buried under the patio.

  8. Pre-transplant therapy... by Grayden · · Score: 5, Funny

    It puts the lotion on its skin...

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    Shades of Grayden
  9. Re:Ugh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    or John Travolta's recent movie work?

    John Travolta's recent work sucks because he's infested with Body Thetans. He knows the secrets of Xenu but can't seem to shake them. (see xenu.net if ya don't know what I mean.

  10. Re:let me be the first to say by Surt · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think that's just making things worse. Now we have to picture some guy walking around with a sloppy imperfect copy of his dead wife's face.

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    "Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking