Yeah, it seems that you did programdude. Dr. Peng is the competent LL doctor in China, and if you'd gone while he wasn't there you could've ended up with a bad result. If he's really back as Dr. Li is telling people, then it should be okay to go there again.
Hope more people edit their diaries like you. There seems to be a lot of confusion about china- between changing prices and surgeons.
Who is Dr. Li? Neither he nor Dr. Peng are presently associated with the new hospital, Yanda International Hospital/Dr. Xia. If you're talking about Dr. Gang Li, he's in England and hasn't been associated with Dr. Xia's operation at Yanda.
As of now, the only doctor associated with Dr. Xia's original LL business is Dr. Ma. Dr. Xia is rarely around; he visits maybe once or twice a month. Dr. Ma is around 5 days a week, but only intermittently visits his patients. Some periods he visits every day he's on duty, other periods he goes unseen for a week yet is definitely in his office at the hospital. He's usually playing on his phone.
There are a lot of other doctors sharing the same space, but they have no experience or expertise with LL. They are responsible for the few domestic patients who are admitted with other ailments.
Also, it's important to understand Wang Bei's motivations. She function is as a broker and she gets a commission for bringing in international patients. After you've paid, you're lucky if you see her once or twice a month. Yanda Hospital is far from the old hospital and she hates the commute (~2hrs, one way, with typical traffic. 45minutes, otherwise) , which she uses as an excuse to avoid visiting her international clients.
Yes, Gang Li aka Roger Li. He's the one who answers the emails that get sent to [email protected] and is telling prospective patients that Dr. Peng is back now.
When were you last there?
Like I said:
"Who is Dr. Li? Neither he nor Dr. Peng are presently associated with the new hospital, Yanda International Hospital/Dr. Xia. If you're talking about Dr. Gang Li, he's in England and hasn't been associated with Dr. Xia's operation at Yanda."
Gang/Roger Li has no idea what's going on and he's *probably* blatantly lying. I say probably, because I'm not current with the present situation and can't say for certain.
I can say that Dr. Peng was never at Yanda. I can also say he probably won't ever be. Dr. Ma is the only one of Dr. Xia's fomer protegés associated with Yanda. Dr. Xia just visits on a "consultant" basis. Dr. Ma and others said Dr. Peng is practicing more traditional orthopedic surgery elsewhere. Additionally, Dr. Ma runs the show at Yanda despite having his own boss there (the "Director"). He is looked up to by all of the other doctors at Yanda, simply because of his importance in bringing patients to the hospital. He is responsible for more than 99% of the ortho unit's revenue, and realistically, 100% (each domestic patient for LL pays $15-20k USD. Domestic patients for other surgeries pay ~$150-300, all-in). It just seems unlikely for Dr. Ma to want to bring in a more senior surgeon for him to defer to and thereby diminish his own importance to his operation at Yanda. It would be like a CEO of a company, hiring another CEO to be his boss. It doesn't make much sense from Dr. Ma's position.
It's important to remember that Dr. Ma and Guang Ji had an acrimonious split several years ago. This drove Dr. Ma to seek employment elsewhere, namely at Yanda. Following the Chinese Health Ministry's closure of Guang Ji, Dr. Xia has been forced to seek other venues for his practices. Somehow, Dr. Xia managed to negotiate something shady with Dr. Ma. In fact, Dr. Xia's nephew now has his own wing (empty) of the hospital on the second floor. This nephew has no medical training, yet he freely dons a doctor's white coat, visits the patients to give advice and has office space where a doctor normally would. This is purely a business venture and one that has focused on maximizing the amount your lump sum payment that is pocketed while providing the cheapest services possible to minimize cost of goods sold.
Update on my leg: it has a deep-tissue infection introduced during Dr. Ma's nail insertion. The infection is limb-threatening (amputation is possible) and life-threatening. I am off antibiotics so they can take bacterial cultures and I will have to have the hardware removed this month. The doctors here are still amazed that they managed to go 3 for 3 screws missing the rod in one leg, while introducing infection on the other.
Okay everyone, the latest I know is this:
Dr. Li got really mad when he heard about what happened to mistermystery82 and some others under the care of Dr. Ma at Yandan Hospital. This caused him to seek out a new/different successor for Professor Xia. An old colleague from Guang Ji Hospital: Dr. Aimin Peng.
Dr. Peng is not really "back." He has never worked at Yandan hospital and he never will. He's practicing medicine at China Rehabilitation Hospital in Beijing, and interested patients are being sent to him by Dr. Li if you contact [email protected] (Dr. Li's email).
Does the Beijing Institute of External Skeletal Fixation Technology still even exist? This I don't know at the moment, but Dr. Peng has been given his own entry in the doctors directory here to reflect the fact that The Beijing Institute is sending their new patients to him at China Rehabilitation Hospital.
Update: The Beijing Institute of External Skeletal Fixation Technology's website has been updated to reflect that Dr. Aiming Peng is the official successor to Professor Xia.
http://leg-lengthening.com/
Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on October 01, 2015, 06:04:29 AMUpdate: The Beijing Institute of External Skeletal Fixation Technology's website has been updated to reflect that Dr. Aiming Peng is the official successor to Professor Xia.
http://leg-lengthening.com/
So would doing 5cm there be a bad idea or no? Seemed like a nice place now I am so confused :/..
5cm is on the safe side for Dr. Peng. I did 7.5 with him and many people went to 10 or even beyond.
I got an email form them: now they charge you 45k!!!!, is a non go.
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