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EYEBALLS UPDATE! 3rd Eye Surgery!?!?
The Taban misrepresentation theory stated in full, 188 days before the first Taban filing — and an explicit statement that he has never named the surgeon. The pre-litigation posture, still undecided.
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are unfamiliar we had a cosmetic surgery back last year in November December and Visually it went well but it caused me to be incredibly crosy and I had really bad vision problems so we had one surgery to correct it in March a few months later and then we had just had this second surgery to correct the other eye uh in June so three surgeries later I mean obviously guys if I if I knew what was going to happen I I would never have gotten the surgery in the first place
Dates the eye-surgery sequence precisely from the inside — index cosmetic surgery November/December 2023, first corrective strabismus surgery March 2024 ("the week of March 21st", per 0:16), second corrective surgery 2024-06-27 (the day before publication). C101 pleads the index surgery as 2023-11-29, which this video's "November December" straddles. It is also the counting baseline: three procedures total as of 2024-06-28, rising to the "eight revision procedures" a later researched statement records by mid-2026.
uh we're still going to sort some things out I mean the cosmetic surgeons still has to uh correct this and we're going to see how how this whole thing pans out or whether or not I'm going to talk about that and get more into that aspect of it
An affirmative statement of an unresolved, non-escalated posture six months before the eye-surgery litigation opened. He describes the dispute as something still to be "sorted out" with the surgeon directly, and frames even talking about it publicly as an open question. No filing-conduct factor is the correct label precisely because the conduct is absent: no filing, no threatened filing, no prior action, no lawyer. This is the same shape as a 2024-08-13 statement recorded elsewhere in this research, six weeks later — two independent attestations now bracket the pre-filing posture.
of it um because I've never mentioned the doctor's name or anything like that uh and you know there's on one hand he told me the first time I met him I didn't need the procedure on the other hand he did misrepresent certain things about the procedure such as you know he mentioned I would have double vision he didn't say I look like a cross-eyed Freakazoid you know that's a pretty important factor um he said my eyes would not look closer together even after I've had corrective cisma surgery
This is the pleaded theory of C101, in the speaker's own words, 188 days before C046 was filed (2025-01-02) and 192 days before C101 (2025-01-06). C101's claims summary pleads that Dr. Mehryar Ray Taban performed a combination of cosmetic procedures and "allegedly misrepresent[ed] the risks beforehand and the results afterward"; the quote supplies exactly that — a specific, itemised list of two misrepresentations (double vision disclosed but not the cross-eyed appearance; eyes would not look closer together) — plus the orbital decompression procedure C046/C101 both concern. It also does something no later telling does: it states affirmatively, on 2024-06-28, that he has deliberately not named the doctor publicly, and that whether he will "get more into that aspect of it" is still undecided. That is the pre-filing decision point itself, on camera. Another researched statement records the same double-vision-versus-strabismus complaint from a later video, and a further one records that it became a pleaded fraudulent-concealment count; this quote is the earliest attestation of it in the research archive.
you know I had New York health insurance that was completely covered we'll again we'll sort out the situation still hasn't sorted been sorted out yet but
A second, independent restatement — at a different point in the video — of the posture stated at 5:55, so the finding does not rest on one sentence. It also records that the corrective surgeries were covered by New York health insurance — a damages-allocation fact that bears on the Taban eye-surgery dispute and that no tracked record currently carries.
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2025-09609 — Tufano v. United HealthcareTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 08:31 researched as bearing on this case: The dispute described as still unresolved, immediately after the insurance-covered corrective surgeries.
3:25-cv-00011 — Tufano v. Taban et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 06:06 researched as bearing on this case: The Taban misrepresentation theory stated in full, 188 days before the first Taban filing — and an explicit statement that he has never named the surgeon.
25SMCV00041 — Frank Tufano v. Mehryar Ray Taban, MD et al.Transcript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 06:06 researched as bearing on this case: The Taban misrepresentation theory stated in full, 188 days before the first Taban filing — and an explicit statement that he has never named the surgeon.