Dr. Anthony Youn

And she said, my tummy is a mess.

I'm in so much pain that I can barely walk.

And she got tears in her eyes.

And she's like, Dr. Yoon, I need you to help me.

She said, I've been to 10 or 12 or some other plastic surgeons and everybody has turned me down and you're my last hope.

So I said, well, what's going on?

And she said, so I had this operation by this other doctor.

They removed the skin from my tummy and then everything turned black.

My tissue died and I was in the hospital for months and now everything is scarred in and it's just so painful.

And she got tears in her eyes and she said, Dr. Yoon, I can't even play with my granddaughter.

She goes, the one thing I want to do is be able to play with my granddaughter again.

And so I look at her information and I tell her, I'm like, look, you know, you've got so many medical issues.

They probably turned you down because you're at such high risk.

Like you can die from this operation.

And she goes, my life is over right now as it is.

Like, what am I worried about?

So, you know somebody like that comes in and you look at all these things and you're just like Dang, you know if I were to bring this person to surgery She could die on the operating table or she could have a bleeding complication afterwards.

There's so many things that can go wrong But this was one of those handful of times as a physician where I go over all this stuff and I look at it and I just have this sense of assuredness

that everything was going to be okay.

And that this was something that I had to do for her.