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Public statement source · YT155
Dr. Taban an EVIL PSYCHOPATH?!
A statement dating the surgery dispute at more than two years and alleging that the surgeon at its centre continues to conduct an online campaign against the speaker and is motivated only by money; no filing, court, docket or ruling is mentioned.
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Because how is it after two plus years of this botch battle, this doctor is still trying to lie, gaslight, and manipulate the online space to paint Frank Tofono as some type of crazy schizophrenic lunatic?
Dates the surgery dispute in the speaker's own terms at more than two years running, and alleges the surgeon is still conducting an online campaign to characterise him as mentally unwell. Useful chronology for the eye-surgery dispute group.
Why this classification: The statement supplies the speaker's own dating of the dispute and characterises the opposing party's out-of-court conduct rather than his own filing behaviour, and it names no case, court or docket.
So, it's really just a sophisticated money-making scheme. It's nothing beyond that. He's not a skilled surgeon. He doesn't know what he's doing. He's trying to extract as much money from people as possible. And this manipulating and gaslighting and lying and trying to shut me up, all they care about is money. At the end of the day, they don't care about improving their surgeries or what they're doing.
States the speaker's theory that the surgeon's practice is a money-making scheme and alleges an effort to silence him. It is a public allegation by a party, offered without source, and the archive takes no position on it.
Why this classification: The passage describes the opposing party's alleged motive and conduct, not the speaker's own filing behaviour, and identifies no case, court or filing.