Bullet Wounds and Breast Implants
Plastic Surgeon Prefers War to Cocktail Parties
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-732631,00.html
By Dialika Krahe
Enrique Steiger's day job is performing breast operations and facelifts on celebrities. But when he's not doing cosmetic surgery or attending glamorous cocktail parties, the Swiss doctor is saving lives in makeshift Red Cross hospitals on the battlefield.
The diplomat is lying on the operating table, his stomach opened up like a handbag, revealing a red inner lining of muscles, fat and blood. Outside the window, the morning sky shimmers in shades of blue and gray over Lake Zurich.
Enrique Steiger bends over the wound and cuts an excess piece of flesh from the edge. "He's actually a good-looking man," he says, "it's just that he had a bit of a paunch."
Steiger, 52, is tall, charming and tanned. He has a Colgate smile and Hollywood looks. Sometimes he injects a bit of Botox into his own forehead. In the soft light of his operating room, he looks as if he had just come back from a vacation at his house in the south of France. But the hint of a shadow under his eyes reveals that he must be exhausted. Just three days ago, Steiger returned from a war zone -- from his other life.
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http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-62312.html
Plastic Surgeon Prefers War to Cocktail Parties
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-732631,00.html
By Dialika Krahe
Enrique Steiger's day job is performing breast operations and facelifts on celebrities. But when he's not doing cosmetic surgery or attending glamorous cocktail parties, the Swiss doctor is saving lives in makeshift Red Cross hospitals on the battlefield.
The diplomat is lying on the operating table, his stomach opened up like a handbag, revealing a red inner lining of muscles, fat and blood. Outside the window, the morning sky shimmers in shades of blue and gray over Lake Zurich.
Enrique Steiger bends over the wound and cuts an excess piece of flesh from the edge. "He's actually a good-looking man," he says, "it's just that he had a bit of a paunch."
Steiger, 52, is tall, charming and tanned. He has a Colgate smile and Hollywood looks. Sometimes he injects a bit of Botox into his own forehead. In the soft light of his operating room, he looks as if he had just come back from a vacation at his house in the south of France. But the hint of a shadow under his eyes reveals that he must be exhausted. Just three days ago, Steiger returned from a war zone -- from his other life.
slide show......
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-62312.html
