Why would patients return to the same clinic for additional surgery, if their results were so bad?
Because that was what the clinic recommended. We were only trying to comply with the recommendations of the clinic. Recent patients might not know that until the 90s, patients were told that they should wait for only 2 to 8 weeks between surgical procedures. It takes about 3 months just for transplanted grafts to begin growing, but in the meantime, patients were advised to continue getting additional surgeries. So it was hard for patients to realize how badly they were getting screwed up, until it was too late. Most guys wanted to complete the surgery quickly, so they could get on with their lives. I wanted the best possible result, so I was a “model patient”. I followed the course of treatments that were prescribed for me. I knew something was very wrong immediately after my first surgery, but the clinic promised me that everything was normal, and that I had to continue with the rest of the surgeries in order to have a successful outcome. After the first surgery, the patient has forev
