Quote from: jbc on December 28, 2016, 08:23:03 AMAre you kidding, this is what you have? Some anonymous ratings and a half-baked blog post?
I'm certain of several things. One, that over the course of his near 40 year career, Dr. Paley has made some mistakes, maybe some resulting in patient disability. When you've done that many procedures, statistics indicate that you're going to make mistakes. It's inevitable.
Second, that this would be true for any Dr. in any specialty over the same period of time with the same amount of procedures. Again, statistics and law of averages.
Third, that Dr. Paley has probably contributed more to CLL than any other Dr. on the planet. He trained a good portion of the other surgeons on this board. He's pictured with Dr. Guichet as having helped develop the Albizzia nail. He helped develop the Precise, the Precise 2, and is the lead researcher for the full weight bearing Precise.
Fourth, he's responsible for 1/6th of all the Precise CLL procedures worldwide.
Fifth, he's renowned not just for CLL, but for limb lengthening and limb reconstruction. I visited his facility. It was full of malformed kids, mostly. One family shared that they fought immigration laws in their home country for nearly a year to have a chance for their little boy to have surgery with Dr. Paley, and their little boy is now on the road to full recovery.
Sixth, that you can probably not find someone as qualified anywhere else to have this procedure. He has practically an entire hospital dedicated to doing this type of work.
No Dr. worth their salt is free from mistakes. My father was a Dr. for over 40 years, and he lost patients. He was also known as one of Europe's best Dr's. in his specialty.
CLL is an invasive, complicated procedure, and those that have done it or considering it are unquestionably taking on a significant amount of risk where a lot of things can go wrong. I'll take Dr. Paley over pretty much anyone to do this for a couple of reasons: one, reading through every diary on this board, and having met several of his patients, Dr. Paley's patients consistently have the lowest amount of complications. Second, his experience, including the mistakes he made. It's partially because of those mistakes, as sad as that is, that he is the best in his field at what he does.
Exactly dude ..
This is the whole deal of the surgery..
No one is ever perfect. Even doctors that have spent years of study, research and experience
Nothing is ever 100% and people "will" make mistakes..
That's why this surgery isn't for anyone. It's not just like, "Oh i have everything i need in life.., i'm 5'11, a few cm's to get to 6ft would be nice ..... let me do a surgery"
No.
You must know the consequences and the risks you're getting yourself into.
You must be either extremely desperate, Depressed or deformed.
An "irrational" thought, would be considering surgery as the first option.
A more rational approach, would be to try everything you can, including therapy, before you make a decision as serious as this.
