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Public statement source · YT487
BOTCHED BY TABAN! And no one can fix it!?
A complaint website is launched and other patients are solicited. No Los Angeles malpractice firm would take the case; several had sued this doctor before.
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in the short few days that video was initially posted I was reached out to by a lot of people whose lives have been upturned by Dr tbon and I can only estimate that there are hundreds and hundreds of botches at least several dozen of them being very bad and there is now botched by ton.com where you guys can submit your story
Dates the launch of the complaint website to on or before 2024-12-21 and records that it is soliciting other patients' accounts. The domain botchedbytaban.com appears nowhere in the dataset — the site is an artifact of the dispute that the dataset does not hold. The caption forms "Dr tbon" and "botched by ton.com" match nothing as written; they are corrected to Taban, consistent with the caption misrenderings of the name already recorded in this research, and the correction is independently confirmed by the video's own description, which spells the domain botchedbytaban.com.
video uh I reach out to every medical malpractice law firm in Los Angeles and what a surprise not one of the lawyers wanted to help Frank Tano including several firms that did Sue Dr ton in a few cases
This is the stated reason the eye-surgery actions filed twelve and sixteen days later were brought pro se — both C046 and C101 are recorded as filed without counsel. It also asserts that other malpractice suits against the same doctor exist in Los Angeles; the tracker holds no such prior actions (it records only Tufano's own). "Frank Tano" is a caption rendering of Frank Tufano — the identical "Tano" rendering appears elsewhere in this channel's captions.
Moderate pattern relevanceJudicial or forum bias alleged04:25
question so for me at this point you know considering all these lawyers and judges will collude against me to protect this doctor uh the least stressful thing for me to do is just make everyone aware of this guy help people from being in the same situation simply by telling the truth
Among the most important statements in this research, and it points the opposite way from the pattern. On 2024-12-21 he states that the courts are closed to him and that publicity, not litigation, is his chosen course. Verified against the case tracker: C046, Tufano v. Taban et al (M.D. Pa. 3:25-cv-00011), was filed 2025-01-02, twelve days later, and C101, Frank Tufano v. Mehryar Ray Taban, MD et al. (L.A. Superior 25SMCV00041), on 2025-01-06, sixteen days later — both pro se, both in the eye-surgery dispute group, both naming this doctor. This is a temporal fact, not a causal claim, and it is a third evidence shape alongside the silent pre-filing statements and the announced-and-fulfilled filings recorded elsewhere in this research: disavowed, then filed. A later reader must not treat a disavowal as evidence that no filing followed.
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3:25-cv-00011 — Tufano v. Taban et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 03:28 researched as bearing on this case: No Los Angeles malpractice firm would take the case; several had sued this doctor before.
25SMCV00041 — Frank Tufano v. Mehryar Ray Taban, MD et al.Transcript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 03:28 researched as bearing on this case: No Los Angeles malpractice firm would take the case; several had sued this doctor before.