Liposuction: Stories

Travelled across the US, from MD to LA to get buccal fat removal and neck, chin lipo with Dr. Haworth after watching Dr. Haworth on the swan and studying his website. Had my surgery in 08/2012 (buccal fat removal, chin and neck lipo). Now 9 months later, I feel and I am beautiful because he took the time to listen to my needs and applied his experience and knowledge to match them. He sculpted my facial fat away to bring out features that were hidden underneath excess fat. He has an artistic and aesthetic understanding of beauty and art, a foundation that in my opinion creates a perfect combo; an artist who is a scientist/surgeon and vice versa who has the ability sculpt you into a picture that is closer to your ideals. But, anyone who undergoes or thinks about undergoing plastic surgery needs to realize that no plastic surgeon can create or change their patient into an ideal that is unrealistic e.g. make us look exactly like a celeb X or Y. Whatever someone’s ideal is plastic surgeons can only bring us closer range to that ideal. So, it is important to understand and acquire realistic expectations. Remember, that plastic surgery is the application of medicine of science, hence the paramount requirement to have a board certified surgeon as is Dr.Haworth. Also, the anesthesiologist was top notch as well who made me feel at ease, so was his staff. So, all components of professionalism, medicine and care will be there for you. I say that if you are going to have plastic surgery on your face, then you definitely want the best surgeon and expert. I recommend you get the best or nothing, and I also suggest you take my first hand patient account and experience as a valuable input. If you need to travel to LA then go do that, take a couple of days off of work and to attain the privilege to have Dr. Haworth work on you. His got a prestigious institution and medical facility at the Haworth center in LA, along with his expertise and modern understanding of beauty all will guide you to become more beautiful. I’d say choose him while he still performs surgery. I am afraid he may become an icon like Dr.Oz, and quit performing surgery. If I were Dr.Haworth I probably would not even operate on anybody or would be selective on the clientele, it seems as if they are some mentally unstable individuals out there who are projecting their misery onto their plastic surgeon

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Wow. I too am completely appalled and disgusted by the comments of Dr. Randall Haworth. First, I must say that I’m not connected to Seattle2584 or Dr. Haworth in any way. I’m just a Realself member who reads a lot of reviews of various procedures to educate myself about the full-scope of plastic surgery risks before pursuing revision of my own unsuccessful surgery. (You know, to educate myself about the REAL risks of surgery. The ones that surgeons withhold, minimize, and/or misrepresent during our consultations in order to sell us oftentimes inappropriate procedures and make their dishonest living.) Dr. Haworth’s remarks stopped me dead in my tracks and I felt I needed to respond. I’m horrified because it appears that Dr. Haworth is revealing private details of the patient’s former surgeries. That is an inexcusable violation of Seattle’s privacy. It may also be a legal violation of the confidentiality of her medical records. Although Seattle2584 is using a pseudonym, imagine the psychological trauma she must feel having a surgeon, whom she trusted enough to perform surgery on her, broadcast her personal details over the internet! What an underhanded way to bully and intimidate a former patient who is trying to speak out about her experience! Only a complete scoundrel of a surgeon would stoop so low, in my opinion. If that weren’t enough, he continues with his attempts to discredit Seattle for another five paragraphs! However, it was this line from Dr. Haworth that really made me shake my head: “Do realize that this behaviour does more than attempt to damage a reputation- it actually misleads the public at large.” Oh, the irony! Mr. Haworth, your crass and insensitive comments have done much more to damage your reputation than the brief review by the original poster. As far as “misleading the public at large”, let’s place blame where blame is due. The cosmetic surgery industry’s sophisticated marketing machine works overtime to mislead the public at large about the supposed safety, effectiveness, and benefits of cosmetic surgery. It works overtime to mislead the public at large about the physical, cosmetic, and psychological risks of surgery, as well as the subsequent financial consequences that accompany an unacceptable outcome. Dr. Haworth’s industry accomplishes more “misleading” in a blink of an eye than a sole patient who posts a review of her negative experience, however incomplete that review may or may not be. I also take issue with Dr. Haworth’s comment: “[P]lastic surgery is not exact by its very nature (being a subjective blend of art and science) not all results turn out the way we hope, despite our best efforts.” Cosmetic surgeons take exorbitant amounts of money from patients. Then when a poor result happens, they hide behind the flimsy excuse that “plastic surgery is not an exact science”. Well, for the $19,000 that this patient paid, it better be darn near an exact science! For that kind of money, the doctor should have been able to predict and deliver an acceptable cosmetic result! We don’t pay surgeons thousands of dollars for a crapshoot! We expect successful services rendered in exchange for our hard-earned dollars! Then, Dr. Haworth says, “This is further exemplified when the plastic surgeon has to take into account pre-existing asymmetries, irregularities, deformities and scars from past plastic surgery.” If Dr. Haworth felt there were pre-existing issues that made Seattle’s surgery especially challenging and made it more than likely that she would have a poor outcome, then why did he accept $19,000 of her money and perform surgery on her at all? I have come to believe that cosmetic surgery is a dishonest profession that attracts dishonest, low-class doctors. Dr. Haworth’s comments reaffirm that opinion.

I am disgusted by the response of the doctor. He cuts his previous patient down numerous times and brings up past procedures that sounded by his description not related to areas he worked on that she is dissatisfied with. I would never ever consider this doctor strictly based on his smart mouth and condescending remarks he left. I'm sure he may be skilled in his profession however with that childish attitude it reflects poorly. He should of called the patient once seeing the post since he knew who she was and attempted to rectify the situation which may of lead to the patient having a better experience.

This is the doctor and I am aware of who you are. I would like to address your concerns and as well as clarify a few issues. Firstly, I would like to apologize for not making you happy since my goal for all my patients is to provide them with the very best care I can. I am the first to admit when results can be better. I am a human and I operate on humans and sometimes things do not turn out perfect. Since plastic surgery is not exact by its very nature (being a subjective blend of art and science) not all results turn out the way we hope, despite our best efforts. This is further exemplified when the plastic surgeon has to take into account pre-existing asymmetries, irregularities, deformities and scars from past plastic surgery.

When an unhappy patient chooses to share their experience in a public forum such as this, it is only fair that they convey a complete picture to the public. What I mean by that is that they should share if they had previous irregularities and asymmetries from past Liposuction as well as obvious, bad scarring and deformities from a past upper lip lift and rhinoplasty, respectively. Though I fully respect your right to voice your opinion, most would agree that you should describe if you had pre-existing deformities for which you sought correction.

Do realize that this behaviour does more than attempt to damage a reputation- it actually misleads the public at large.

Based on the terrible complications described, any reasonable person could safely assume that the responsible physician would certainly be aware of these disastrous results. This is the first time I am aware of the described problems with your final results. In many instances a patient fails to make these complaints to their physician which has certainly been my experience. Indeed, many out-of-town patients do not even show up to their scheduled followup appointments, despite follow-up phone calls from the office.

Of course, should you wish to consult with me in the clinic to discuss your issues, I will be happy to do that.

Finally, I would like to address your curiously obsessive knowledge of what gets written about me on the web, including what posts get deleted, what they said, how many were removed, etc. You, along with your "other" posters on this and other boards seem outraged I should have any positive reviews written about my practice, quickly dismissing them as fake. Please realize any dedicated physician including myself has many happy patients that far overshadows the few true unhappy ones and in this new age of social networking, I encourage them all to share their experiences.

You also seem outraged by your negative reviews that have been removed over the years from the other websites. As much as you focus in on "fake" positive reviews, have you ever taken the time to ponder there is such a thing as fake negative reviews and the real reason why these negative reviews were removed in the first place?