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BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS DR. STEVEN BLOCH TALKS ABOUT PLASTIC SURGERY MISCONCEPTIONS AND WHAT MAY BE TRENDING IN THE DECADE AHEAD. BY SCOTT HALLORAN THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
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When Dr. Steven Bloch was a college student, a bout with acute appendicitis inadvertently changed his life. “I was not the best patient,” says Dr. Bloch, founder of Body by Bloch and Skin Deep Medical Spa. “In the middle of the night, based on my vital signs, the surgeon showed up and basically said ‘I’m doing this because I’m not going to be responsible if we don’t’.” The surgeon’s confidence and dedication to his profession was not only impressive, but inspiring. Though he’d been considering a career as an architect, Dr. Bloch’s experience as a surgery patient was profound enough to cause him to switch his major to pre-med. “After that, I knew I wanted to be a doctor,” he explains. “In plastic surgery, there are two branches—the aesthetic and the reconstructive.” As a student of architecture, he already had the aesthetic sensibilities, something he says “can’t really be taught.” “It’s a matter of gauging proportions and creating a line that’s pleasing to the eye. The study of plastic surgery is
recognizing that line and applying the technology to achieve it,” says Dr. Bloch, who did residencies in surgery and plastic surgery at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he was chief resident in plastic surgery. He also did a medical internship at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Today, Dr. Bloch is on the staff of North Shore Medical Center and performs surgery there and at his state of the art private facility in Highland Park. With a new decade on the horizon and revolutionary new procedures being reported every day, we reached out to Dr. Bloch to get his take on the state of the industry. Here’s what our local expert had to say: What’s the biggest misconception about plastic surgery? That it involves plastic, because it doesn’t. Plastic comes from the Greek word plastikos which means to mold or shape. So, some patients are afraid that they’re going to look fake. The truth is that the art of plastic surgery lies in taking a technical skill and elevating it to an artistic level. I’m creating something that looks natural, like it’s intended to be. I strive to enhance the patient’s natural beauty—to enhance, Continued on PG 8 Dr. Steven Bloch PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN BRIGGS
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