Dr. Anthony Youn: ...that you can't please everyone

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Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Joining us on this episode is plastic surgeon Dr. Anthony Youn, who you may know from his appearances on TV programs like The Rachael Ray Show, The Dr. Oz Show, and The Doctors. He's also the host of his own podcast, The Holistic Plastic Surgery Show, and the author of the book, Playing God: The Evolution of a Modern Surgeon.

Note: this episode originally aired in November 2019 and is part of our 'Best Of' series.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.6	I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black.
0:16.1	And joining us on this episode is plastic surgeon Dr. Anthony Yoonne, whom you may know from his appearances on TV
0:22.4	programs like The Rachel Ray Show, The Dr. Oz Show, and The Doctors. Dr. Youen is the host of his own
0:28.1	podcast, The Holistic Plastic Surgery Show, and the author of the book, Playing God, The Evolution of a Modern
0:35.4	Surgeon. Dr. Thank you so much for joining us.
0:38.6	Thank you so much for having me on.
0:40.7	Take us back a few years and tell us why you decided to enter the field of medicine in the first place.
0:47.4	Yeah, it's interesting.
0:48.5	You know, the day I was born, my parents decided that I was going to be a doctor.
0:53.1	I think this is the case for a lot of Asian Americans.
0:58.4	My dad grew up on a rice farm in Korea and he became a physician and basically pulled his
1:03.6	family out of poverty and lived the American dream. And so for him and for my mom, really what
1:09.5	they knew coming to the U.S. was that doctor equals success.
1:13.3	And so that's what they decided I was going to be.
1:16.7	And you say that you felt like an outsider growing up.
1:20.0	And I'm wondering if you could tell us a little bit about that and how plastic surgery played a role in your own life.
1:26.8	Yeah, so I grew up in the only Asian family, really the only non-white family in a tiny
1:33.1	town in the middle of Michigan.
1:35.4	And really it was, in addition to being the only Asian family there, when I was younger
1:42.3	and I was in high school, my jaw began to grow to
1:45.0	enormous proportions, the point where my jaw was bigger than Jay Leno's jaw. And I ended up,
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