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Sets out the speaker's standard-of-care theory in the medical-negligence claim: that the procedure has no aesthetic indication.
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you get what happened to me. Incredibly botched, disfigured, crosseyed, half blind, and you got to get eight revision surgeries to fix it because no one's able to fix it.
A revision-surgery count of eight. It conflicts with a higher count the speaker gives the following day; both are recorded and neither is treated as settled.
Why this classification: A revision count; damages background.
Watch at 00:22 — youtube.com ↗But he has botched hundreds and hundreds of people, and then uses the few photos where he didn't. I think he's got like three photos of people he didn't mess up.
Alleges the surgeon markets using unrepresentative before-and-after photographs. It is an unevidenced allegation and is recorded as commentary only.
Why this classification: An allegation about the surgeon's marketing; no filing conduct.
Watch at 01:05 — youtube.com ↗That's another really strong argument justifying medical malpractice is that no other doctor is doing this. Any other doctor that is performing orbital decompression uses it solely for correcting thyroid eye disease. He's the only eye surgeon in the entire world performing orbital decompressions for aesthetic purposes.
The speaker articulating his own standard-of-care theory - that the procedure has no aesthetic indication - five days after the order in the tracked action.
Why this classification: Sets out his theory of liability; it describes the claim, not filing conduct.
Watch at 01:39 — youtube.com ↗A case link records a researched connection between the video and a docket record. It is not a finding that the video caused, or was caused by, any filing.
The 12 most recently published of 220 other indexed videos grouped under Taban / eye-surgery-related litigation.