I Had an Amazingly Bad Experience! Traumatic and Sadly Painful to Recount.

He failed to meet any of the overly high expectations that he claimed to be capable of delivering. Worse than failing to live up to his descriptions of himself, the self-named MAERCKS facelift, MAERCKS breast augmentation (do you sense a trend here?) and so called "sneaky" facial injections all told costing approx. 100K resulted in a laundry list of complications as follows: traumatically torturous physical pain in recovery of the facelift and breast augmentations, 2 massive hematomas on both sides of my neck, permanent nerve pinching to my right ear along with a partially lopped off tragus, pronounced railroad track scars across both upper eyelids, and an extensive infection of my breasts resulting capsular contracture within just weeks of the breast surgery. If all that doesn't sound horrible enough, I was present in his office to consult about the infection 5 days before his preplanned 3 week vacation out of the country. Rather than recommend emergency surgery to remove the infected implants immediately, he prescribed antibiotics for me then departed the country for 3 weeks leaving me to languish with an infection for at least 4 weeks until he could return. Upon his much anticipated return, for reasons known only to him, he actually suggested doing nothing as a possible option in his preop sessions with me for the corrective breast surgery. I'd like to make this crystal clear - he made sure he addressed his personal affairs first and foremost before the care of a very sick patient. So focused was he on himself and his personal affairs that he displayed a strangely dispassionate disregard for a patient's potentially life-threatening situation. Fortunately or perhaps unfortunately for me, I disagreed with doing "nothing" and insisted the implants be replaced because I actually wanted them to be smaller. I awoke expecting full and complete resolution only to have him inform me that rather than replace both implants, he had to remove them and install 2 drains, one in each breast presumably because the infection had done so much damage and my breast tissue was liquified. The results of that implant extraction essentially left no remaining natural breast tissue along with deeply sunken areoles and deep contracted scarring that more than a half dozen other plastic surgeons I consulted since all rejected me saying they couldn't possibly repair it. The breast repair continues to be an ongoing project as I continue to search for someone skilled enough to help me. The only good news of my experience is that I feel incredibly fortunate to have found a far superior facial plastic surgeon in Boston who redid every aspect of the facial surgery for which I had already paid including necklift, eyelids, brow and hairline. My Boston surgeon couldn't fix the pinched ear nerve or lost tragus but my face looks so good now people I've known for years didn't recognize me. I feel so lucky that my most unfortunate series of events with Maercks lead me to someone who actually can deliver superior results. Take my experience into consideration if you ever think to do any procedure with this person. I ignored the many red flags and let my own personal issues and emotions cloud every aspect of my response to the situation. I was initially overly profuse with my thanks to him for his work and skills because of some personal tragedies I had experienced and blame myself for jumping into such extensive surgery that lead to nothing but more grief, heartache and pain. Now that so much time has passed I hope this description can be clear enough to help you in making an informed decision as to whether this is a person you feel you can trust with your medical care. Oh almost forgot - the fillers were also damaging leaving uneven, puffy and overly filled results in some places. The surgeon in Boston helped to surgically remove some of that but more work still needs to be done. PS, I paid him 30K for implants and dermal matrix that I never got. He didn't even have the common courtesy of thinking to offer that expense back to me consider the substandard results he delivered. But what else should I have expected from a person of this character?