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Public statement source · YT298
Dr. Taban DOESNT UNDERSTAND HIS OWN SURGERIES
Records the speaker's account of a pre-surgery consultation in which he says he asked whether the procedure would move his eyes closer together and was told it would not, and his contention that published studies say otherwise.
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The second lie and probably more significant one that ultimately led to me getting botched because if Dr. Don was truthful, I wouldn't have gotten the procedure. I asked him, "Does a medial orbital decompression make my eyes closer together?" He said, "No." [...] "Well, you remove the tissue from the inside of the eye, so aren't the eyes going to be closer together?" He said no. And I trusted him.
A specific statement of the informed-consent theory, naming the procedure, the question he says he asked and the answer he says he received. It is the substance of the malpractice allegations in the eye-surgery dispute in his own words.
Why this classification: Moderate because it is first-hand subject matter of a tracked dispute with no filing conduct described. Two limits are load-bearing. The passage reconstructs a private consultation from memory and performs both halves of it, so the words attributed to the surgeon are the speaker's account of what was said and not a recording of it. And the transcript renders the surname only as Dr. Don; the identification comes from the video's title, and the transcript alone would not establish it.
But if you Google medial decompression, every study says reduction in intraupilary distance, which basically means your eyes will be closer together, reducing the distance between the pupils upwards of 10 20%. So for him to not — did he lie or did he not even know what what his surgery does? It's crazy because if I knew that at all and saw those studies and he was actually informing his patients of what the the surgery does, I would never have gotten it under any circumstances.
States the causation element of the same theory, that he would not have consented had he known, and broadens the allegation from himself to the surgeon's patients generally.
Why this classification: Context rather than Moderate because it adds argument rather than fact and identifies nothing further. The medical claim is sourced to his own searching, the percentage figure is unclear in the captions, and the surgeon is again identified only through the video's title.