New Women Trend: Women Are Staying Awake For Their Breast Augmentations

Apparently, some doctors have started using local rather than general anesthesia during boob jobs. So not only are the patients awake throughout the surgery, but they get to watch and chat with the doctor about size and shape while their breasts are getting tweaked.

You can read the full New York Times story here but this is the general gist: Local is less risky than general, so the changes of complications during surgery go down. Plus, since the docs can prop the patients up to see their results before they get sewn back up, they have more say in their final results.