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Unskilled, Dishonest, Poor Bedside Manners
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Unskilled, Dishonest, Poor Bedside Manners
RealselfcontributorOctober 21, 2025
People who consider this doctor should learn of his rudeness, dishonesty and poor skillset. Moreover, when I communicated with him about the obvious issues after my surgery, he flat-out denied any issues existed while looking at the photos.
Immediately after the surgery, my columella deviates towards one side significantly. This is due to the fact that he did not anchor the septal extension graft directly in the midline. It was anchored to the left of my anterior nasal spine instead. I woke up the following day after surgery and notified his nurse and him of this septal extension graft deviation issue. Both of them chose to ignore. As a result, the septal extension graft blocks my smile, affects my speech and it is extremely uncomfortable. Prior to my surgery, I discussed with him a surgery technique developed by his mentor, Dr. Toriumi. This technique is the only correct method for fixing my nose. But he was not forthcoming. He only told me after the surgery that he does not know how to use this technique on his patients.
He has very very bad suturing skills. He did not close my wound with proper alinement and with adequate eversion of the skin. You can see the terrible step-off the skin and the notch in the columella. After the surgery, my nose bled for 3 weeks because of poor wound closure. He put me on 2 weeks of extra antibiotics.
You can see in a photo that he left a huge bump in my left nostril. He later tried to minimize the issue by calling it “columella flap”. But instead, it was because he did not shave the edge of rib graft smoothly. It was poking against the skin.
He is rude and swears with foul language on the phone and in his office on various occasions. 3 months later, in his office, when I pointed out what was obviously not right when we were looking at my post-surgical photos together in his office, he flat out denied the issues by saying:" there is no problem there, you have a great nose." That was very scary to see a doctor act that way. Later, such obvious issues are confirmed by other doctors.
He banked unused rib above the muscles in my chest. This resulted a huge bump in my chest. He kept me wondering about why my chest was deformed, swollen and painful for over 2 months before admitting to me of this.
He refused to provide me with surgical photos by telling me that he never takes photos of patients' noses during surgeries. He only sent me photos of before surgery and after surgery. But obviously, all photos were automatically named with sequential numbers by his camera. It is obviously there were lots of photos in between such numbers taken during surgery which he did not want to disclose.
A year later, when I requesting a partial refund, he gave me the runaround. He demanded me to fly to Los Angeles for the refund. Later he stopped answering my email. I have no idea where he acquired his bad bedside manners, dishonesty, and unethical behaviors.
Another doctor who recently revised my nose took this photo of the inside of my nose. He told me that Dr. Hyman added unnecessary grafts on the sides of my septum, especially with this big one on the left side. He said with such unnecessary grafts, Dr. Hyman still failed to keep the columella in the midline, because the septal extension graft was anchored over 4 millimeters away from the center point where it should have been (where anterior nasal spine is).
Beware of him.
Immediately after the surgery, my columella deviates towards one side significantly. This is due to the fact that he did not anchor the septal extension graft directly in the midline. It was anchored to the left of my anterior nasal spine instead. I woke up the following day after surgery and notified his nurse and him of this septal extension graft deviation issue. Both of them chose to ignore. As a result, the septal extension graft blocks my smile, affects my speech and it is extremely uncomfortable. Prior to my surgery, I discussed with him a surgery technique developed by his mentor, Dr. Toriumi. This technique is the only correct method for fixing my nose. But he was not forthcoming. He only told me after the surgery that he does not know how to use this technique on his patients.
He has very very bad suturing skills. He did not close my wound with proper alinement and with adequate eversion of the skin. You can see the terrible step-off the skin and the notch in the columella. After the surgery, my nose bled for 3 weeks because of poor wound closure. He put me on 2 weeks of extra antibiotics.
You can see in a photo that he left a huge bump in my left nostril. He later tried to minimize the issue by calling it “columella flap”. But instead, it was because he did not shave the edge of rib graft smoothly. It was poking against the skin.
He is rude and swears with foul language on the phone and in his office on various occasions. 3 months later, in his office, when I pointed out what was obviously not right when we were looking at my post-surgical photos together in his office, he flat out denied the issues by saying:" there is no problem there, you have a great nose." That was very scary to see a doctor act that way. Later, such obvious issues are confirmed by other doctors.
He banked unused rib above the muscles in my chest. This resulted a huge bump in my chest. He kept me wondering about why my chest was deformed, swollen and painful for over 2 months before admitting to me of this.
He refused to provide me with surgical photos by telling me that he never takes photos of patients' noses during surgeries. He only sent me photos of before surgery and after surgery. But obviously, all photos were automatically named with sequential numbers by his camera. It is obviously there were lots of photos in between such numbers taken during surgery which he did not want to disclose.
A year later, when I requesting a partial refund, he gave me the runaround. He demanded me to fly to Los Angeles for the refund. Later he stopped answering my email. I have no idea where he acquired his bad bedside manners, dishonesty, and unethical behaviors.
Another doctor who recently revised my nose took this photo of the inside of my nose. He told me that Dr. Hyman added unnecessary grafts on the sides of my septum, especially with this big one on the left side. He said with such unnecessary grafts, Dr. Hyman still failed to keep the columella in the midline, because the septal extension graft was anchored over 4 millimeters away from the center point where it should have been (where anterior nasal spine is).
Beware of him.
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