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I am in a little bit of shock right now at this...

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China is cracking down on leg-lengthening surgery. The operation "involves breaking the patients' legs and stretching them on a rack." Recovery takes two years. The surgery was originally designed to repair accident damage or remedy dwarfism, but it "has become popular among young professionals desperate to climb up the ladder in [China's] height-conscious society." Purveyors advertise "height surgery with no pain," but the operation disfigured at least 10 patients at one hospital last year. Government's plea: "Leg-lengthening surgery is a clinical orthopedic treatment, not cosmetic surgery," and it may be done only "for strict medical reasons."

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http://www.slate.com/id/2151202/

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