I never cease to be amazed when it comes to these surgical procedures.
In the Yahoo Group I run on this subject you always find common threads:
1. The Surgeons and their staff will greet you with a great smile, after that they will do the following:
a. They will tell you that you that they are the best at what they do.
b. They will tell you that you are an excellent candidate for the surgery.
c. They will tall you that "they" have never had a problem.
d. They or a member of their staff will then very quickly start discussing money.
2. After you have had the surgery the "good and kindly Dr. Jeckyll" becomes Mr. Hyde
a. Any infection you develop is automatically your own fault.
b. If you did not get a good surgical result, it is because you did not start stretching quickly enough.
c. If you have pain, it is because you are not healing right and again that is your fault.
3. At this point, you begin the third phase and this is that the MD and the associates refuse to take your calls.
a. Now the game starts over because when you look for surgical correction if it can be done at all, you start the same exact cycle over again when Doctor Number two agrees with you, takes your money, makes promises on which delivery is a "long shot". When that happens, just re-read number one and number two above.
I have watched this same exact scenario play out time and time again. The MD may change and the patients may change, but in the end the percentages who have problems are far higher than the percentages who are completely satisfied.
Those who state that their are problems are not lying here. I would be untruthful if I were to state that all procedures go wrong. They do not all go wrong. The problem is that if you take a look and communicate with most people 5 years after the fact, you are going to find very few happy campers.
I really wish you the best of luck.
You need to contact both the Los Angeles County and California State Medical Boards of Quality Assurance before choosing an MD. Spend a great deal of time looking for problems before you say yes to a scalpel.
