How my artistic background has helped me in my carieer in plastic surgery?  Even as a child I was interested in drawing and painting.  I started painting with oil at the age of ten. In high school, I took it more seriously and was considering a career in the arts.  My father was very much against that idea and encouraged me to become a plastic surgeon.  He used to say artists can’t make a living and most of them starve to death.  He said, “There is only one Picasso and what are the chances that you will be like [...]