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THe Pickiest Patients
They seize doctors' syringes, seek illegal treatments, demand the impossible: Some women are taking control in the doctor's office. By Joan Kron
in the examining room of a Manhattan dermatologist's office on Fifth Avenue, Jane Butler rattles off a list of complaints. She doesn't like the bags under her lower eyelids. She's "mad at my eyes. When I see this," she says, grabbing the outer corner of her left eye and stretching it toward her temple, "I want to lift it up." She's dissatisfied, too, with barely perceptible hollows on either side of her forehead. Mirror in hand, she shows the doctor, Soren White, exactly where under her ...