When she was a teenager, Heather Furnas was determined to one day wield a scalpel after watching her plastic surgeon father transform lives in bush hospitals in Kenya. Entering the specialty when it was just five percent women, Furnas has taken a particular interest in making the specialty more inviting to women and other under-represented groups. In The Business of Plastic Surgery, 2nd Edition, her latest book, with co-editor, Joshua Korman, features a one-of-a-kind chapter offering the perspectives of plastic surgeons uncommon in their race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. Theirs is a one-of-a-kind book that offers valuable advice to the medical student interested in surgery, as well as the early-, mid-, and late career plastic surgeon.
