{"id":26220,"date":"2025-12-23T00:24:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26220"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:24:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:24:45","slug":"i-refuse-to-do-a-22k-surgery-for-free-for-my-family-they-paid-a-bigger-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26220","title":{"rendered":"I Refuse to Do a $22K Surgery for Free for My Family \u2014 They Paid a Bigger Price"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m a plastic surgeon who always gave family free advice, until my aunt demanded a $22,000 facelift \u201cas a favor.\u201d I refused and explained the risks and real costs. She showed up at my office with relatives to pressure me, but I stood my ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She then went to a cheaper surgeon, the surgery went wrong, and it cost her $35,000 to fix. Now my family blames me, saying it\u2019s my fault for not doing it myself. The experience destroyed my relationship with my parents and taught me a painful lesson: setting professional boundaries can cost you family, but breaking them can cost you everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a plastic surgeon who always gave family free advice, until my aunt demanded a $22,000 facelift \u201cas a favor.\u201d I refused and explained the risks and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":216,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26222,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26220\/revisions\/26222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}