un tool not only to satisfy an aesthetic quirk, but also to solve “defects” with serious and painful repercussions from a psychological point of view. Describing cosmetic surgery in this sense is the mission of My scalpel friend – Intimate confidences, airing today at 2.50pm on real-time. At the helm of the program, Dr Damiano Tambascoplastic surgeon at the hospital San Carlo di Nancy in Rome.
My scalpel friend – Intimate confidenceson Real Time
The protagonists? They are ordinary people: they rely on surgery to resolve what they believe to be a physical defect that prevents them from living peacefully. Why get a constant sense of psychophysical unease«associated with painful pathologies», explains the press release.
Discomfort is the drive that drives patients to go under the knife. The goal is to improve the exterior to improve the interior, and solve a problem that limits them in everyday life. Some, for example, yes they entrust Dr. Tambasco to correct an injury caused by a surgery suffered in the past.
The one on air from today, for 8 episodes, is therefore an “ethical” series, which doesn’t portray characters with dinghy lips and stretched skin from liters of Botox. But patients with “ordinary stories with extraordinary implications”, as the promo states. Their stories offer a realistic insight into society.
“My scalpel friend – Intimate confidences”, the surgeon Damiano Tambasco. (Warner Bros. Discovery)
The protagonists of the stories
The surgery – followed by the cameras in the operating room – is in fact only the last step that starts the new life. Before completely entrusting himself to his scalpel friend, the patient on duty tells his story. Opening the doors of one’s past and one’s present e explaining the reasons why he decided to have the operation.
Talks with Damiano Tambasco they are the right and necessary opportunity to do so. The doctor encourages everyone to reveal the emotions and thoughts that have been with them for some time and that prompted him to be there.
There are 15 stories addressed: very different from each other, they photograph rather transversal needs. There are the lawyer and the butcher, the nurse and the saleswoman, as well as the stuntman and the podiatrist.
Among the stories told, that of a woman who requires back surgery. She fell into a boiling pot as a child and still bears the marks today. Another, on the other hand, suffered an accident on the pedestrian crossing and has been living with a lump visible through her leggings for years. Finally, a boy left without hair, who thanks to the autotransplantation regains self-confidence.
Who is My scalpel friendDoctor Damiano Tambasco?
Born in 1983, the plastic surgeon Damiano Tambasco is originally from Salerno (he was born in Montano Antilia, in the heart of Cilento). After graduating in Medicine in Rome, he fell in love with plastic surgery during Erasmus in Spain, specializing in particular in reconstructive plastic surgery.
After experiences between United Kingdom, United States and Colombia, has returned to Rome: today it is head of the Surgery and Aesthetic Medicine Unit of the San Carlo di Nancy Hospital in Rome.
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