Julio, I fully understand your line of thinking from a Coleman patient who has had satisfactory results and is speculating on why he seems to be so highly regarded yet is the only board certified surgeon who has managed to have a mob of patients after him.
We undeniably are sounding off because of several reasons.
In 2006, a large group of people including myself, filed a "class" complaint with the NY Department of Health. I personally spoke to the plastic surgeon Dr. Barrick, who admitted that he was so inundated with complaints against Dr. Coleman, that he literally had to clear another desk just to store the files.
No investigation happened. He was never disciplined. Our certified letters were never responded to.
Also in 2006, a group of patients flew from all over the U.S. to be interviewed by CBS for a segment on how Sydney Coleman had grossly deformed people while promoting his piousness to the rest of the world. Here is a surgeon repeatedly claiming to fix iatrogenic liposuction deformities caused by other doctors and yet I saw firsthand, his "revision" on a woman present that day was shockingly reckless, abnormal, and unsightly. That segment went all the way to completion, got the okay, and suddenly never aired. CBS now claims all the film and records were thrown out. Very fishy. Sometime this year, CBS instead featured Coleman's new marketing focus on breast Lipostructure which is featured on his website.
The wearecolemanpatients.com website was shut down by Coleman initially but I believe the owner regained the right to put it back up, but for unknown reasons has yet to.
As you know from being on many message boards, you are not allowed to openly accuse a surgeon of bad work unless you post pictures. Most who have had good plastic surgery are reticent in alerting the world via the good ole internet that they so much as had a procedure so you can imagine how difficult it is for those who have been deformed to want to display their embarrassing looks to the whole world. Currently, this site is the only outlet for warning people about how dangerous Dr. Sydney Coleman can be and if one day you no longer find it, rest assured Coleman succeeded in shutting this one down too.
As for April Smith's contention that her fat graft did not last, I would deduce that either Dr. Sydney Coleman hadn't made enough "passes" to kick up scar tissue or that her body simply was not prone to prolific scar formation, or that for unknown reasons Coleman did not use enough fat, which in itself would be highly questionable since he seemed to have taken enough out of her since she claimed he harvested multiple areas without her consent.
The latter is of concern in my case as well, why he took such unneccesarily large volumes of fat out of my thin frame, without my consent when I had requested such few areas of augmentation and in such small amounts to have that subtle "refreshed" look without others being able to pinpoint exactly why.
He is affiliated with Cytori Stem Cell research company.
I don't know about you, but judging from his unscrupulous conduct and his peculiar pattern of patients often complaining of him taking large amounts of fat from areas they never consented to, this doesn't sound good to me at all.
These are the "facts". I had mentioned in a previous post, don't take my word for all of this, nor Sydney Coleman's word for it. All of what I mentioned is public record, can be confirmed, and if you want to hear from Sydney Coleman patients who had experiences that didn't destroy their lives, plastic surgery message boards would be a wiser choice. I know of one woman who was satisfied with his work, but she claims it took two years for her "swelling" to go down and the unsettling waiting period was so stressful that it wasn't worth it. She firmly tells posters to stay away from him, as there were other issues regarding his inappropriate conduct relating to nudity.
Again, no one on this board is attempting to perpetuate hate. Of course those who were violated express bitterness. Wouldn't you if he violated you? Violating someone after knocking them out and rendering them helpless under anesthesia is the ultimate cowardly form of violation. Trust me when I say you would have to be stupid or insane to not want to retaliate when you wake up having your identity changed, warped overnight.
Had he done what he did to me to my kids or my own mother, all bets would be off as far as what I would do to this man. I don't feel "better" that his reputation is ruined. Most of us are beyond revenge. Justice is what we're seeking. For him to stop lying, stop hurting people, stop suppressing the truth, and pay back what he owes to the ones he's hurt. Very simple.
Julio, you say we should stick to objective facts. That's virtually impossible in relaying a personal experience with this surgeon. That would mean we would have to upload copies of our identities, medical records, pictures etc. This is the task of attorneys. As I said, do your own research, come to your own conclusions but don't expect open divulgement of "facts" specific to individual posters. If you're that interested, go to the courts and read deposition scripts of all malpractice lawsuits brought against him. They are public record.
I will reiterate, we are expressing our opinions. No one is forcing a gun to your head to read it or believe it. Arrive at your own conclusions.
But allow posters with "complaints" to be able to share them without being accused of being crazy, or unbelievable because our bits and pieces of experiences and emotional reactions to them are being described. Are we supposed to upload an affidavit from a psychologist to be able to do this? I mean, come on. |
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