A plastic surgeon is hoping that his patient’s story of surviving workplace violence 
will motivate manufacturers of breast implants to pay for her reconstructive surgery.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Lydia Carranza was shot in the chest last year, causing her implant to deflate and leaving her with scars. Much worse was the traumatic experience and death of her co-worker. When a man opened fire in her office, Lydia was shot twice, with one shot intending to kill: “The bullet fragments were millimeters from her heart and her vital organs” said Dr. Ashkan Ghavami to the Times.
The presence of Lydia’s saline breast implant could have been the deciding factor between life and death, according to a firearms instructor interviewed about the story, who also mentions that, of course, breast implants are not “the equivalent of a bulletproof vest.”
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