Quote from: LLto180 on February 25, 2014, 11:23:17 PMI am doing LL with Dr. Betz right now. As a patient of him I can just say its ridiculous what people post here. I am fed up with those people. They gave me such a hard time before surgery and I even believed all this not backed up nonsense. After the consultation I knew I want to go with Betz. But then again I had too much time to read on the forum and got concerned again because of all this nonsense people post here. So I decided to go Germany again and visit some more patients. All in all I met a lot of Betz patients and they were all doing fine. So I knew I will stop reading on the forum. Thats what the other patients recommended to me and it just makes sense. People come here and post whatever they want, give no back up and everyone believes it.
Quote from: LLto180 on February 26, 2014, 11:34:32 PMI had plenty of time during my stay at the hospital to talk to physio therapists, nurses or other doctors. They only confirmed that it is very rare to have a complication. Anyway the admin of this forum should stop these guys/posts. Otherwise this forum is going to be so useless again. Every post has to be backed up. And people who just try to scare or discourage other ones should be warned and otherwise banned.
This forum should help future patients making a decision to go with which doctor. It shouldnt confuse or scare them just because of a few people who try to post negative stuff about certain doctors.
To all future patients who are in the same situation I was a few months ago: like I already said, dont just trust some letters people post here. Save up, go for a consultation with Prof. Betz, meet his patients and then go for your dream. Dont let other people stop you from achieving your goals.
This is my updated reply.
LLto180 seem to be emphasizing that people are posting nonsense here while putting down this forum. I have to point out some facts about what is being discussed in this thread.
1) The topic reads: Dr Betz Complications! Nail/Screws Break and Require More Money and Surgery
Started: September 26, 2013 here
So this was the first place that had an open discussion about this issue. Does Dr Augustin Betz internal nail/screws break and led to more money spent and surgeries?
2) If you search Complications with Dr. Betz in Google, you find that somebody read this topic and created another topic at the old forum. That thread is dated October 31, 2013 and it is mentioned that
" I became very concerned when I noticed all of the following complications from his patients and how much money I would have to spend."
Tall- Bent femur nail with Dr. Betz. Titanium nail replacement.
Apotheosis- Broke Tibia nail with Dr. Betz. Titanium nail replacement.
TibandFemur- Broke/bent Femur nail with Dr. Betz. Never disclosed the information himself and we only found out through other people. Stopped his diary.
Andrewshizzles- Titanium nail replacement for his femurs with Dr. Betz. Never disclosed information himself and we only found out through other people.
OldiebutGoldie- Bent nail/screws with Dr. Betz. Thankfully still posting and open about his feelings and complications. "
3) Mime has sent me Xrays, pictures of being in the hospital bed with bandages & wounds on the legs along with invoice document from Dr Betz. Base on these reasonable evidence, I'm inclined to believe that Mime is an actual patient of Dr Betz who went for LL surgery in Germany.
End of the day, this is an open forum where anyone can say anything, just like in the real world. I will leave people to draw their own conclusions after reading everything and not forgetting the suggestions listed here.
Reference: http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=55.0
