[Lasers] are incredibly powerful machines, ... And in the cosmetic area, maybe people don't take it as seriously (as necessary). Lasers can be more dangerous than the scalpel.

It was a pilot flying somewhere in the area that day who saw something I thought was incredibly powerful as he described it. I saw the whole video tape and we had a picture of the pilot he was pointing it out on the map. I did not want to release it because we had not finished the investigation,

Machines are not judgmental. Some people feel like they are being judged when they phone call centers. That doesn't happen with a machine.

Were the court to sustain the decision below, it would set a precedent that would seriously hamper the very measures drug treatment and prenatal care that promote healthy pregnancies and birth outcomes,

Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch—terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.

People take for granted that a laser is a machine that puts out light, and that it's pinpoint. But in fact, some of the worst scarring that we see is in the areas of laser use for wrinkles and hair removal that have occurred in physician practices where they rent lasers.