A plastic surgeon is opening a ‘fat bank’ that will allow patients to store their own body fat for future use.
Dr Jeffrey Hartog, from Seminole County, FL, has developed a process that removes fat from patients by liposuction and then stores it in a super deep freeze.
Such is the lucrative potential of the idea, he believes, that he has dubbed the facility the Liquid Gold lipid bank.
This brings to mind a news item from the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum posted way back in December 2008 of a US surgeon proposing the use of fat removed during liposuction as a biofuel source.
Even more bizarre was the follow-up item that included the news that “California state law forbids the use of human medical waste to power vehicles“. As we said at the time, legislators often claim that they work hard to compile comprehensive laws free from ambiguity and loopholes. So all credit to them, for foreseeing this one!