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The Beauty of Medicine

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Friday, December 08, 2006

You don’t have to be a plastic surgeon to give Botox injections. Now other physicians are getting into cosmetic medicine thanks to the higher salaries and lower malpractice rates. Find out how the beauty business is drawing so-called “non-core” doctors and why the “core” ones aren’t happy about it with guest host Errol Louis. Plus: why an NBA star is giving away free shoes and more on the Sean Bell shooting.

Loaded Questions

Sean Gardiner, Village Voice criminal justice reporter
- looks at the guns and the NYPD in the wake of the Queens police shooting

Sean Gardiner’s article Guns Gone Wild

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Social Responsibility and Sneakers

William C. Rhoden, New York Times sportswriter and columnist and author, Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete (Crown, 2006)
- talks about New York Knick Stephon Marbury's afffordable sneakers which he’s giving away to NYC high school varsity basketball players

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The Beauty of Medicine

Dr. Ngozi Nwankpa-Keshinro, co-owner of a Dermacare Laser and Skincare clinic in Brooklyn Heights
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Natasha Singer, New York Times reporter
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Alex Kuczynski, New York Times writer and author, Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 billion Obsession with Cosmetic Surgery (Doubleday, 2006)
-why gynecologists and ...

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Holiday Horror Stories

Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor for Slate Magazine
- how holiday parties can land employers and employees in legal trouble and other party stories

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