The EverCare in Beijing is one of thousands of plastic surgery clinics mushrooming across China with promises to make patients more beautiful, more successful and more marriageable.

Photographs of women before and after surgery, accompanied by testimonials, are displayed on the clinic's walls. Pan's portrait may soon join them.

EverCare has agreed to give her free corrective surgery after a 10,000 yuan (US$1,200) breast reduction operation at another hospital left her with bad scarring and one breast larger than the other.

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