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The worst part is that I DID my research on the procedure and the doctor, and asked all the right questions, and was quite simply lied to, before and for 2 years after. I am permanently damaged, in some daily pain, and the replaceable medical garment required to allow daily activities will cost over $100,000 if I live to be 75, and only if the price never goes up! Very few doctors will risk revision work, and it will cost at least 37k, which I will never have, as the financial damage (lost work time, etc.)from the first go-round set me back so far I almost lost all I had ever worked for. I am partially disabled from my former profession (hospital professional nursing) and he is getting more filthy rich all the time for his work, after practicing on me. It took a lot of counseling to work through the grief and fear, and I had PTSD from the emotional abuse he and his nurse laid on me in the last visit and phone call. For a few years just hearing a Nashville accent on the phone made me uneasy and brought it all back. I could never live there, knowing he was nearby and cared less if I lived or died after what he did to me. I don't dare name him, because ironically, he could sue ME easily. I couldn't sue because, as one attorney told me, it was an elective procedure many people would envy me being able to do, and that "people don't have sympathy for any who let herself get obese in the first place" (even though he was sympathetic and agreed I should under the circumstances). Therefore the attorney would want big money up front; no suing for a percent of the proceeds. The doctor also lied to me about doing a revision, stringing my along just long enough for the TN statute of limitation on malpractice (1 year) had to have passed. I learned later that 2 of his similar early patients were very unhappy, but dropped off the weight-loss-surgery-support web site where I found them, and refused to talk on the phone. Did they sue and he settle, with a gag order? I couldn't find out. By then, the site had gotten very commercial and allowed advertising by weight-loss and plastic surgeons, and they edited out my post and others with negative feedback about weight-loss or plastic surgery complaints. The surgery itself was about 34 k with breast lift/implants, but the hotel, post-op visits, etc., were a lot more...about 37 k in all. So, please, do your research on credentials and Board Certification, ask everything you can think of, yes. But naming names without being sued ourselves is our only real protection. I wish you better luck than mine.