Plastic surgeons make a bundle despite Lebanon’s economic crisis
Many people have no jobs. Others, nose jobs
RHINOPLASTY HAS long been a rite of passage in Lebanon. Teenage girls want a dainty new nose in time for their graduation parties, celebrated in selfies. Lebanon’s many woes have not hindered the habit. Plastic surgeons are apparently making as much as or more than they did before an economic crisis, starting in 2019, that the World Bank has ranked as the third-worst anywhere, ever.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “The resilience of rhinoplasty”
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