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Public statement source · YT548
BOTCHED BY DR. TABAN! Surgery Nightmare!
The suit is announced: a running statute, no counsel, he will write it himself, and a class action is floated. The doctor is named in the transcript, given name included.
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Moderate pattern relevanceThreatened or prospective filing01:03
point and another reason is the medical malpractice uh limit is one year the the statutes so after one year in the state of California you can no longer sue for medical malpractice and we're coming up on that point haven't had much success talking to these lawyers that are defending their doctor buddy uh so I'm not sure if I'm going to have some relief it looks like I'm going to have to write this lawsuit myself and maybe we can do a class action I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to find uh 20 or 30 people through this video that have been butchered by this guy I'm sure he's butchered more than that it's just you know my reach you know I don't have access to his patient list um he did have four lawsuits against him in the in the Los Angeles County court but uh we'll talk more about that stuff later
An explicit, dated announcement of an intended pro-se filing on the Taban matter — 110 days before C046 and 114 days before C101, both of which he did file and both of which carry pro_se = Yes. It also (a) states the California one-year malpractice limitation and that it is "coming up", (b) uses the video as a recruitment channel for co-claimants ("20 or 30 people"), and (c) asserts four prior lawsuits against the doctor in Los Angeles County court — a checkable claim the tracker does not hold, since it records only Tufano's own actions. Not Strong: Threatened or prospective filing is not one of the three core factors.
uh to make a long story short I was misled and lied to by Dr mayor tabon MD most popular oculoplastic surgeon
"Dr mayor tabon MD" is Mehryar Ray Taban MD: the caption renders the given name Mehryar as the common English word "mayor" — a caption-error mode not previously documented in this research, and one no surname-based correction would ever surface. It also settles, positively, whether the transcript itself names the surgeon or only the video title does: the transcript names him.
and what what was really might have been what caused this in the first place he upcharged me on the procedure the day before the surgery saying I needed a double wall compression instead of a single wall compression so the bill went from like I don't know 30,000 to 38,000 and I asked him I said do you think I need it I trusted his expertise I trusted him I said okay I'll pay you for the the double decompression which is likely the specific part of the procedure that has caused all of these comp lications and the negative
The core factual grievance later pleaded in C046/C101, stated 110 days pre-filing. It also resolves an internal contradiction in WxLAeBlF7mY, which reads "upcharge me $88,000" and then "that extra 8,000" eight seconds later: the figure is $8,000, on a bill of $30,000 → $38,000. Do not merge this with §W4.8's $41,286.36 / "over $30,000" / "over $50,000" — those are the May-2025 orbital reconstruction (C024, United Healthcare), a different procedure.
and after I've had conversations with these lawyers and these law firms and I probably have at least 10 active legal cases right now that I've written myself
Checked against the case tracker. On 2024-09-14, nine pro-se-filed actions were on file and not yet closed — C039, C040, C041, C042, C043, C044, C045, C001, C002 — and a tenth action (C100) was live against him. "At least 10 ... that I've written myself" is therefore accurate to within one and not materially inflated. This is the third checkable self-reported volume figure researched on this channel (an earlier "20 or 30" against a checked count of exactly 31, and "30 folders" against a checked 52 — an understatement), and the running pattern is that his own counts are conservative, not exaggerated.
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3:25-cv-00011 — Tufano v. Taban et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 01:03 researched as bearing on this case: The suit is announced: a running statute, no counsel, he will write it himself, and a class action is floated.
25SMCV00041 — Frank Tufano v. Mehryar Ray Taban, MD et al.Transcript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 01:03 researched as bearing on this case: The suit is announced: a running statute, no counsel, he will write it himself, and a class action is floated.