Bahrain, this week

Medical staff at the Ibn Al-Nafees Hospital have announced they are searching for a nose to be used in a controversial transplant operation. The surgery would be only the second of its kind following a successful partial face trasplant in France last year. Surgeons have said that the operation will be performed on an anonymous patient upon receipt of a suitable nasal specimen at the hospital.
"We can't disclose the identity of the recipient at this time, but we are conducting a preliminary search for noses of suitable tissue type, skin colour and aesthetic qualities," a hospital spokesman said.

One of the most difficult operations to perform, a nose transplant grafts the donor nose onto the face of the recipient. Complications can include rejection, infection as well as a lack of satisfaction with the appearance of the new nose.
"In this case we have to be careful especially with a quality we call 'cuteness'," cautioned chief plastic surgeon Fayd al Touk yr Honkr, himself endowed amply enough with nasal acreage to donate to a dozen patients and still shade a herd of weary camels. "We are searching for a 'cute little button pixie nose, all tiny and innocent like a white boy's'," he said, reading from notes. "And that's what Michael wants, so that's what Michael gets."

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