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[|Home Surgery]
 * 1) When surgery is done professionally for body modification, the physicians has to analyze the client first
 * 2) are they sane?
 * 3) do they have body dysmorphic disorder?
 * 4) are they obsessed?
 * 5) //Wired Magazine// journalist Quinn Norton says, "If they want them enough they're going to get them, so they might as well get them safely," meaning that the patient might take matters into their owns if the physician refuses to do the operation.
 * 6) home surgery--using butter knives as scalpels and photographs they found on the internet as their surgery textbooks
 * 7) Ms Norton, as part of her research, decided to get a mod herself.
 * 8) She chose a small magnet to be implanted into her fingertip.
 * 9) She visited body modification artist Steve Haworth in Phoenix in 2005 who numbed her finger in ice water and then used a scalpel to slice open a space to slide in the silicone-encased magnet
 * 10) it granted a "sixth sense"
 * 11) it became infected and had to be removed
 * 12) Amal Graafstra had a RFID (radio frequency identification) chip implanted in the web between his forefinger and his thumb
 * 13) it allowed him to unlock his office door without having to fish for his keys
 * 14) also allows him to start his motorcycle
 * 15) he later got a chip in the other hand and hasn't experienced any trouble with it
 * 16) Dr Tarshis says, "Each surgeon has to decide if it is something they feel comfortable doing for themselves — not because someone might have something done less safely elsewhere."
 * 17) meaning that he feels he doesn't feel obligated to do a procedure just because he feels the patient will do themselves or have it done unprofessionally