<p>Re the skilled surgeon comment: when my dermatologist was preparing to hack away at my upper arm, I said, “um, er, do you think maybe I should see a plastic surgeon?”</p>
<p>His reply: “No, no, I did a plastic surgery rotation in the army.”</p>
<p>So reassuring!</p>
<p>It went from looking like Frankenstein (puckered, mismatched, etc-- due to circular wound sewed shut into a straight line) to scarcely visible.</p>