Quote from: Whimsical on February 25, 2018, 11:04:48 PMI don't like your post. There are many stories about these men in the forum, also about criminal charges. And the Claudio guy isn't a radiologist nor a physiotherapist. Don't bring the bs excuse of friendship to defend them. You aren't his friend. You have a customer relationship. Even if you were a friend of them or worked for them, that wouldn't be a reason to defend them if they were agaisnt the law.
Fitbone worked in your case but it has failed in other cases and the experiences of those patients are as valid as yours. Cooper, Musicmaker, Helloworld and others had problems and, seriously, even MM and HW with their heavy promotion have more credibility than you. I checked your videos, your pics and can't take you seriously. Moose said you were a fake. I don't think you are but I would advise people not to trust you for many reasons.
TRUE. I haven't heard anything about Monegal's criminal charges but the fake PT was criminally charged. He was scamming, threatening, and humiliating patients who paid for his services as if he was a real PT while he wasn't because he wasn't licensed. A group of users verified with the Colegio Oficial de Fisioterapeutas that his credentials were fake and he was reported. This is a serious crime in Spain.
Dr Alex Monegal (Barcelona, Spain) Clinica Diagonal
Quote from: Life on April 27, 2018, 08:41:53 PMCinderella are you an alt account of Dr Monegal, Musicmaker, Auron or his mob? You sound exactly the same.
Yes I'm cinderella.
By the way, has anyone seen my glass slipper?
Quote from: Auron on April 28, 2018, 09:25:23 PMYes I'm cinderella.
By the way, has anyone seen my glass slipper?
Haha man you know what I'm saying. Cinderella shows the typical childish discourse of Monegal's mob, but it's ok guys. You aren't harmful just annoying and zero credibility.
I want to tell you something about this doctor and I’m not a troll. I’m a former patient of his. I don’t have any interest in pursuing a vendetta. I’m not Lluser. But I think some members of the forum deserve the truth. I have nothing to deal with him anymore so I can tell the truth.
For me Dr Monegal isn’t a good option. I could finish LL unscathed but many patients experienced complications and many had to deal with the doctor’s craziness. His behaviour is erratic and reckless. My first impression was: get out of here. I didn’t. I feared for my security from the very beginning. The clinic is not prepared for international patients (nobody speaks English). The doctor is showing off all the time and he tries to beat his own time records during surgeries, in detriment of his patient’s safety. He drives like a madman when he takes patients by car resorting to all kind of profanity and exceeding the speed limits. He doesn’t care about patients’ wellbeing. He only cares about himself and his reputation. He has outbursts of acute paranoia related to this forum and is insanely obsessed with the trolls here. The trolls have taken things too far, but most of what they have said is true. This doctor never admits his mistakes and blames patients of their bad results. What is worse, he hides his worst cases from prospective patients and the rest of the world so that nobody can criticize him. If people find out about them, he denies his responsibility. He’s a pathological liar. Don’t let his superficial charm fool you. He’s not a good person.
So my advice: if you can, stay away from him.
Cheers
Many weird things about Monegal.
And many patients saying good things about him like he was their father...or because they are afraid of something.
All these are too much for me. I just want to do a successful LL, not to investigate what is going on Spain and this very weird case of doctor.
For me, I camt believe that all the bad things mentioned are lies. Maybe some of them are but not all.
After all, for about the money this doctor wants for the unreliable fitbone there are other doctors who perform with the far superior precise 2 so I really don't think this doctor is a good choice.
As for Dr. Monegal, read the following from Cooper, he was a patient who was crippled by Dr. Monegal before he went to Dr. Paley and Dr. Rozbruch to be fixed so he could just walk again.
Cooper's own words- http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=2454.msg51176#msg51176
"I had very bad experience with Tibia lengthening. I made terrible mistake of doing tibia with Monegal. I probably went through worst ultimate nightmares. I usually write Dr. in front of him but he lost that honorary title long time ago. Ever since I came to US I had some nuisances about right tibia. It felt something did not go well. But I was giving benefit of doubt. I have been telling all LLers’ through private chat tibia should be easy and since this is one leg I should have much better experience than femur.
Late last year I went to see Dr. Rozbruch in New York to check on tibia. Immediately after reading x-ray he pointed out 3 major issues. 1) Provactum tibia bone curving 2) Fibula migrated up. When the monegal fixate tibia and fib bones he somehow pushed the fibula up and fixate. The angulation is not correct this is major issue out of three 3) low callous and possible non-union 4) lost nerve on feet about 25% (not major but had to fix). Dr. R advised to fixed all three and his assistant wrote a note which I forwarded monegal right away. I asked precisely to Dr. R what can be done with him. The answer was reverse everything and put external fixator for tibia and small monorail for tibia and lengthen. I was devastated to hear that!"
Cooper's own words- http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=2454.msg51176#msg51176
"I emailed monegal and hoped he can correct the issue. But he denied any of that need fix. Similar response to Crimson: ‘everything is fine' and keep lengthening to your desire 5.5cm. He also advised me not see any LL specialist. I told him ok. But I was not stupid. I knew by then I have major issues and I was only about 3.5cm. I keep lengthening and start looking for a solution to fix right leg and lengthen left leg. I was determined to get it done in US because I cannot take more chances.
The two US doctor I communicated:
1) Paley : first chastised me for going for inexperience doctor second the complication is major and will require more time and money to fix. His recommendation is take out the fitbone, put external fixator to not to loose the distraction gained, inserted non lengthening rod, lengthen fibula by 1cm, plated fibula, fixated tibia/fibula, bone grafted tibia and fibula for non-union, nerve decompression and put new non lengthening rod. He estimated about $100K for fix and left leg lengthening with precise.
2) Rozbruch: fist he did not want to help and asked me to go my first surgeon. I told him monegal is not capable of fixing and cannot be trusted. He said he will help. Cost about the same.
I also contacted few other doctors and everyone agreed on the three issues. I picked one of the US doctor and currently in recovering."
Cooper's own words- http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=2454.msg51176#msg51176
Monegal Issues:
1) Dishonest: He did not disclose all the information and lied on patient count and his experience. He emailed he performed 600 bone segments. Come to find out I was third tibia patient. One of his patient told me in Spain everyone lies. His manipulates deliberately and black mailed his patient to write good things about him and defend him as often as necessary. You cannot trust this doctor and his patient specially from Spain!!!
2) Unethical: If you are not honest than you do not have ethics. Especially in this profession you want to go to doctor who respects patient rights, if something is not right than let the patient know and possible solution to fix. Just not to say everything will be ok. You need more time.
3) Poor Osteotomy: Most of his patient has issue with callous formation. Interesting part is all of the patient with few exceptions are lengthening less than 6cm. Still have poor bone formation. I have both fibula and tibia non-union and misalignment. Grafted both and I gained only 5.3com. I thought I did 6 but the x-ray show 5.3com.
Cooper's own words- http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=2454.msg51176#msg51176
4) Poor logistics: When I had my surgery I was in recovery room for long time. He could not find me and went home without meeting me in person. He later phoned me to say everything went ok. They forgot to put catheter and I did not pee for long time. I screamed and used profanity to get attention at the hospital. The epidural was not turned on and I was in pain for long time. Nursed blamed me tempering with epidural and told monegal I shut it off.
5) Pain management: I was in 10/10 pain level during first night. The worst pain of my life. Nurses and caretaker does not know how to manage pain. Their respond will be ‘that is normal’. On my last two surgery my pain level never went more than 2/3.
6) Fibula bone: For monegal fibula bone is not important and ok to have non-union. Even mentioned he can take fibula bone put some place else for bone lengthening while I was in Spain. Fibula is sort of extra bone put in reserve. Such a stupid comment coming from surgeon. His action is not to do anything regarding my fibula non-union.
Cooper's own words- http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=2454.msg51176#msg51176
7) Forum: He is using forum to fish new patient and anyone raised flag he tries to shut him off either by himself or through his patient. He gets mad to his patient if anyone writes bad thing and continuously monitor forum thread. He probably spends more time in forum than any of us out here.
His Patients: most of his patients are good people by heart. We all come from same height neurosis industry and wanting to get taller. I feel forum is fraternity to support each other. This doctor is exploiting forum to his advantage. We need to stop him. I am still in contact with few of them. They need him to fix the issue, correct whatever complication and have to oblige whatever he asks them to write. I would not be surprised if few of his patients come to this thread and try to defend him.
9) Complication: Almost all of his patient has some complications. Many of them cannot walk without crutches. Complications includes but not limited to premature fitbone fracture, fitbone malfunctions, loose screws, serious nerve issue, misalignment and unkown. Unknown are other complications which patient does not know because they have not seen other LL specialist.
Notatroll's own words-
I want to tell you something about this doctor and I’m not a troll. I’m a former patient of his. I don’t have any interest in pursuing a vendetta. I’m not Lluser. But I think some members of the forum deserve the truth. I have nothing to deal with him anymore so I can tell the truth.
For me Dr Monegal isn’t a good option. Many patients experienced complications and many had to deal with the doctor’s craziness. His behaviour is erratic and reckless. My first impression was: get out of here. I didn’t. I feared for my security from the very beginning. The clinic is not prepared for international patients (nobody speaks English). The doctor is showing off all the time and he tries to beat his own time records during surgeries, in detriment of his patient’s safety. He drives like a madman when he takes patients by car resorting to all kind of profanity and exceeding the speed limits. He doesn’t care about patients’ wellbeing. He only cares about himself and his reputation. He has outbursts of acute paranoia related to this forum and is insanely obsessed with the trolls here. The trolls have taken things too far, but most of what they have said is true. This doctor never admits his mistakes and blames patients of their bad results. What is worse, he hides his worst cases from prospective patients and the rest of the world so that nobody can criticize him. If people find out about them, he denies his responsibility. He’s a pathological liar. Don’t let his superficial charm fool you. He’s not a good person.
So my advice: if you can, stay away from him.
Cheers
Notatroll's own words-
Many patients I met suffered a lot. Some of my LL friend (successful business men and Ivy League trainees) couldn't help crying. Pain and psychological distress were so unbearable. The bravest patient I met was Musicmaker, with 10 surgeries and more piling up, and she kept active taking on hobbies but I could see sadness in her eyes and at night she used to cry like everybody else. LL is quite hard and not for everybody.
You'd better rule him out for your safety. He's not a good doctor. He has many bad cases and can't handle complications well.
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