UNICORN - Dr. Guichet Internal Femurs 8cm - Summer 2016

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Quote from: Unicorn888 on June 26, 2018, 02:27:32 PMJust make sure you xray every 2 weeks and check that your callus fingers are bridging.  That's the only thing to look out for.  If the calluses are not growing, you should stop or slow down your clicks.

Everyone is different.  You could be a fast fuser and it might mean clicking even more to ensure you don't fuse before you reach your height.  You can always PM me your xrays, ok?  And I can give you an opinion then.  Whenever you feel in doubt, seek a 2nd opinion.  That's the safest approach.

THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT - CALLUS FINGERS BRIDGING (not my leg)



THIS IS WHAT YOU DON'T WANT - NO CALLUSES - NON-UNION (my right leg)

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Quote from: 4cms on June 12, 2018, 05:35:17 PMThis doctor is all about the money , he took a deposit from me for a surgery booked 1 month in advance and when i backed out he did not return the whole deposit.
Just seeing that turned me off this doctor.

It was the same for most of us.  I never got my £3k surgery deposit back because he claims I owe him even more for the new nail he implanted in me when he broke my nail.

My other classmate was told he came to the gym a week before for pre-op training and that was £3k.

And another classmate was told that he will apply the £3k to his nail removal cost.  That classmate was so disgusted, he got his nails removed by Rozbruch who then applied a discount for him because of his UK experience.  So that was very magnanimous of Rozbruch.

And I'm just scratching the surface here in terms of unscrupulousness.

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Quote from: Penguinn on June 11, 2018, 05:50:43 PMIt's so strange that a for-profit place could be so unethical, just thinking business wise it isn't very smart.
I really hope you end up ok! It seems like you're on the right track 

It's the same as prison systems in the US.  When it's private, everything's crap because it all boils down to the bottom line.  They need to turn a profit, so every dollar and cent counts, hence, cutting every corner they can.

And my London hospital where Guichet operated on me is the largest hospital group in the world and publicly quoted on the NYSE with a $36bn market cap.  https://hcahealthcare.com/home/

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Quote from: Unicorn888 on June 26, 2018, 04:18:35 PMIt's the same as prison systems in the US.  When it's private, everything's crap because it all boils down to the bottom line.  They need to turn a profit, so every dollar and cent counts, hence, cutting every corner they can.

And my London hospital where Guichet operated on me is the largest hospital group in the world and publicly quoted on the NYSE with a $36bn market cap.  https://hcahealthcare.com/home/

But that's the beauty of the free economy, when things are private. LL patients are consumers and doctors are suppliers.

He might have extracted more money from people in the short run by being a d0uche, but your diary's warned people and he's probably lost a lot of patients because of the stuff you revealed. In the long run, he's only shooting himself in the foot. If a privately owned hospital won't be ethical and caring because they have morals, they should at least do so out of business sense. Alas.

Anyway, I'm glad to see you're in good hands. Pretty sure your femurs and you will come out of this in one piece

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Same here. Internally and externally scarred. I don't know what's worse.

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Quote from: Penguinn on June 26, 2018, 08:03:57 PMBut that's the beauty of the free economy, when things are private. LL patients are consumers and doctors are suppliers.

He might have extracted more money from people in the short run by being a d0uche, but your diary's warned people and he's probably lost a lot of patients because of the stuff you revealed. In the long run, he's only shooting himself in the foot.

I'm a free market supporter generally, but the problem is that leg lengthening is an information asymmetric market, even though us here on the forum might find it hard to believe that people don't research the heck out of this procedure before embarking on it. Truth is, many patients simply trust the doctors (for whatever reason) and don't read patient diaries, let alone the ones that might expose them; or exhibit confirmation bias and discard negative opinions. What we have here is an example of market failure, where regulation might actually help - say if there were some sort of commission that investigated complaints and withdrew the doctor's license if the complaints were founded.

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Quote from: OverrideYourGenetics on June 27, 2018, 04:55:15 AMeven though us here on the forum might find it hard to believe that people don't research the heck out of this procedure before embarking on it.

Even if you research "the heck out of it", sometimes there simply isn't enough information available to get an adequately informed view. Before Unicorn's case, one most likely could not know the unethical behaviour and malpractice of a renowned surgeon like Guichet, because there was no diary around showing the potentially horrible consequences of this malpractice. Sure, right now we have more information than two years ago, if you know how to find it (by knowing this forum or Unicorn's story). But would we need another botched surgery so that we could know which LL doctor to avoid next? God bless this kind "free market" then. 

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Quote from: IwannaBeTaller on June 27, 2018, 05:28:56 PMBut would we need another botched surgery so that we could know which LL doctor to avoid next? God bless this kind "free market" then. 

Well that would happen either way. It's not the free market's fault. How would an authority figure dismiss/blacklist a qualified doctor without seeing any bad cases?

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Quote from: OverrideYourGenetics on June 27, 2018, 04:55:15 AMI'm a free market supporter generally, but the problem is that leg lengthening is an information asymmetric market, even though us here on the forum might find it hard to believe that people don't research the heck out of this procedure before embarking on it. Truth is, many patients simply trust the doctors (for whatever reason) and don't read patient diaries, let alone the ones that might expose them; or exhibit confirmation bias and discard negative opinions. What we have here is an example of market failure, where regulation might actually help - say if there were some sort of commission that investigated complaints and withdrew the doctor's license if the complaints were founded.

I think perhaps one regulation that's out there for CLL is Precice, right?  It's FDA approved which is quite a rigorous process to get through.

I'm in no way a promoter or sponsor of Precice but I'm just saying that Stryde will revolutionize LL forever.

Every case CAN be with less trauma, suffering, pain and non-union if :
-  Stryde is used (no more torturous manual clicking / weight bearing maintains muscle mass)
-  Callus formation is priority (nail reversal and stopping if bone consolidation is at risk)
-  Lengthening rate is monitored closely
-  Proper soft tissue stretching techniques are diligently followed from Day 1 (quads, hips, hamstrings, IT band)
-  Adequate painkillers are used

Then one day, CLL will really become a common goal for everyone.  Baby steps but we're getting there, all of us in this forum, sharing and learning from each other.

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Quote from: Unicorn888 on June 25, 2018, 02:57:06 PMThe IT band release literally solved a lot of my lordosis.  Suddenly, I can stand so much straighter with very little duckass left.

The left knee drainage also removed my chronic knee pain.  So my walking gait is non-valgus, straight legs BUT leaning side to side.  The reason is my glutes are still too weak to propel my hips and legs forward like a normal person.  But I’m working hard on that, so I see miraculous small improvements everyday.

Sometimes I get off my seat to open a door or fetch something from the fridge and realize later that I had forgotten to use my crutches.  It is a very liberating wonderful feeling to have my legs support me unaided again.

My current pain is in the non-union grafted gap area of abt 10cm.  It hurts a lot esp when I wake up from 8hrs of innactive sleep.  I sometimes take a spoonful of morphine and keep crutching to alleviate this excruciating bone achiness.  I hope it’s my bone army building a bridge over the graft to fuse.  In any case, pain is better news than no sensation at all (due to nonunion)

https://www.instagram.com/unicorn_gets_taller/

Awesome to hear about your recent improvements!