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Public statement source · YT127
Dr. Taban WINGED 4 PROCEDURES with no Scans or Measurements!
A first-person account of the four cosmetic procedures at the centre of the eye-surgery dispute, stating that the combination was the surgeon's own recommendation and that no scans, measurements or pre-operative workup were done.
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Not only did Dr. Tobon insist on performing four cosmetic procedures at once, that was his recommendation and he was super confident in doing it. He did not do any preparation. No scans, no measurements, no preop stuff, just wing the surgery.
Tracks the recorded claims summary for the Los Angeles action element for element: the four-at-once combination as the surgeon's own recommendation, which goes to informed consent, and the absence of scans, measurements and pre-operative workup, which goes to standard of care.
Why this classification: Unusually specific for this channel and earlier than the dataset's other four-procedure statements by eleven months, but it names no case, court, docket or cause of action and describes no filing conduct. The mapping onto pleaded counts is a research inference, not something the speaker says.
And I mean, in hindsight, that's a large reason why it was so horrifically Bosch and why everything was done incorrectly. and every single other doctor I've been to after they've gotten scans, they've taken measurements, there are tools that these oculoplastic surgeons are supposed to be using, not just winging four procedures at once on on four different patients in the same day.
Adds an allegation not otherwise recorded in the dataset, that four procedures were performed on four different patients the same day, and contrasts it with later treating physicians who took scans and measurements. The clause is ambiguous as captioned and is not resolved.
Why this classification: A party allegation about an opposing surgeon's practice, offered with no source and no supporting document; it bears on the standard-of-care subject matter of the dispute and not on any filing, and no judicial finding supports it.
There's multiple reasons why this guy should have his medical license taken away. And the ridiculousness of what he's been able to get away with is part of it.
States a desired outcome, revocation of the surgeon's medical licence, which is the regulatory theory behind naming the Medical Board of California as a defendant in the tracked eye-surgery actions. No filing is announced or described.
Why this classification: Records what the speaker wants to happen to an opposing party rather than anything he has filed or intends to file, so it carries no filing-conduct weight; the link to the tracked actions runs through the Medical Board defendant and is a research inference rather than a statement he makes.
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3:25-cv-00011 — Tufano v. Taban et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:48 researched as bearing on this case: the call for the surgeon's medical licence to be revoked is the regulatory theory behind naming the Medical Board of California as a defendant here.
25SMCV00041 — Frank Tufano v. Mehryar Ray Taban, MD et al.Transcript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:00 researched as bearing on this case: the recorded claims summary for this action pleads the same four-procedure combination, and the statement supplies the informed-consent and standard-of-care facts beneath it.