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Dated statement of continuing vision impairment, improving from a year earlier. Describes the index practitioner's filler technique.
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My eyes are still really messed up and I have bad vision, but not nearly as horrific as it was about a year ago.
A dated point on the injury-progression curve that the eye-surgery damages case rests on, with an internal backward marker ("about a year ago", i.e. roughly May 2024) placing the worst period between the November 2023 index surgery and this video. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor).
Watch / source — youtube.com ↗Like when I went to doctor to bond [caption garble — "Dr. Taban"] for filler, he took a needle and jammed it in random parts of my eye. The whole appointment took maybe three minutes flat.
A first-person account of the conduct of Taban, a tracked defendant in the eye-surgery dispute group, during treatment — the shape of allegation the malpractice pleadings in that dispute turn on. Recorded as what the speaker said; this research takes no position on whether it is true.
Watch at 00:19 — youtube.com ↗With Dr. Yang. It was an hour and a half of surgical precision, which makes Dr. Tobon's [caption garble — "Dr. Taban's"] practice look like preschool.
The comparative allegation against a tracked defendant that a later video reworked into its own title — "Dr. Taban does Filler LIKE A PRE-SCHOOLER", published 2025-10-12. This telling predates that one by 164 days. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor)
Watch at 00:30 — youtube.com ↗The 12 most recently published of 220 other indexed videos grouped under Taban / eye-surgery-related litigation.