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Breast Augmentation
UPDATED FROM Patient Poole
I am not alone in my experience, it seems.
I am not alone in my experience, it seems. BW has threatened patients with lawsuits in response to negative reviews, according to imaging of letters/docs from his lawyer that I've now seen.
Sometimes subjects of negative reviews claim defamation. This doesn't seem like a viable claim to me, because reviews are inherently opinions. Unless someone states something categorically false, it isn't defamation. There is also such a thing as strategic litigation, so-called SLAPP suits, where the lawsuit is intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition, i.e., leveraging one's own wealth/power against the average person's inability to sustain an expensive legal defense.
If a surgeon is willing to menace reviewers with litigation to protect a reputation he doesn't deserve, I think this says something about his psychological stability and his character. I also think it suggests that there is negative testimony that is being suppressed.
Sometimes subjects of negative reviews claim defamation. This doesn't seem like a viable claim to me, because reviews are inherently opinions. Unless someone states something categorically false, it isn't defamation. There is also such a thing as strategic litigation, so-called SLAPP suits, where the lawsuit is intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition, i.e., leveraging one's own wealth/power against the average person's inability to sustain an expensive legal defense.
If a surgeon is willing to menace reviewers with litigation to protect a reputation he doesn't deserve, I think this says something about his psychological stability and his character. I also think it suggests that there is negative testimony that is being suppressed.
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Breast Augmentation
I believe that working with Dr. Weintraub was one of the biggest mistakes I have ever made in my life. I will spend the rest of it living with the consequences. I consider the results I obtained at his office to be disfiguring. Having consulted with several other board-certified and prestigious plastic surgeons, I believe that this outcome is the result of poor surgical judgment, not spontaneous or unforeseeable complications.
I also gave him multiple opportunities to revise the surgery with--I believe any reasonable person would think--increasingly poor results (see photos below). He even admitted in his operative report that he performed a surgery against his better judgement. I am now having to spend tens of thousands of dollars to have at least one complicated and invasive ~ 5 hour surgery and may have more.
This doctor has a history of several medical malpractice lawsuits in NY state. I also suggest reading about a judgment against him in a bankruptcy case, in which the judge accuses him of lying in his testimony and trying to defraud the court. All of this is a matter of publicly available court records.
FYI, he offered me a partial refund in exchange for an NDA. I refused to take it. Not everyone has the financial means to turn down such an offer. I do wonder how many patients are out there who have had similar experiences but can't talk about them due to NDAs.
*Note: the photographs below were taken by a professional medical photographer.
I also gave him multiple opportunities to revise the surgery with--I believe any reasonable person would think--increasingly poor results (see photos below). He even admitted in his operative report that he performed a surgery against his better judgement. I am now having to spend tens of thousands of dollars to have at least one complicated and invasive ~ 5 hour surgery and may have more.
This doctor has a history of several medical malpractice lawsuits in NY state. I also suggest reading about a judgment against him in a bankruptcy case, in which the judge accuses him of lying in his testimony and trying to defraud the court. All of this is a matter of publicly available court records.
FYI, he offered me a partial refund in exchange for an NDA. I refused to take it. Not everyone has the financial means to turn down such an offer. I do wonder how many patients are out there who have had similar experiences but can't talk about them due to NDAs.
*Note: the photographs below were taken by a professional medical photographer.
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You have had some bad luck, but don't get too down because it is fixable.
Are you going to see another surgeon? I realise cost could be a factor, but nevertheless, you can work towards it.
I had one revision procedure by a really eminent Manhattan surgeon, who came highly recommended by many. There are still a lot of problems that remain, such as asymmetry, implant rippling, and hypertrophic scarring from bolster sutures that the first surgeon left in for almost 2 months. I could have another surgery to try to fix the remaining problems, but the last time I saw him he advised against it because I already had five in less than two years. He said that the severe and chronic breast pain and total numbness in one nipple are likely never going to resolve and wasn't sure how to fix the rest, given that the first revision by him didn't accomplish everything we had hoped.
Ladies, choose wisely. Some problems aren't fixable and revision surgeries are difficult and extremely expensive. I strongly advise consulting a surgeon's malpractice history and going on a personal recommendation, if possible (or ask other surgeons whom they would recommend). Sometimes things check out on the surface but there is a lot more to the story, if you do a little digging ...
Ladies, choose wisely. Some problems aren't fixable and revision surgeries are difficult and extremely expensive. I strongly advise consulting a surgeon's malpractice history and going on a personal recommendation, if possible (or ask other surgeons whom they would recommend). Sometimes things check out on the surface but there is a lot more to the story, if you do a little digging ...
Thank you for posting. I'm so sorry your going through this. Let's private message. I'm also in NYC I have a situation with an NDR too !! Please hang in there!! Writing you !
When I saw your pics it was like looking at pic of my old implants. I had several SX my self. To fix that problem. No 20 years later I have breast that look good not great.
Im so sorry this happened to you!! What did he do that caused this? He should be ashamed
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