Limb Lenghtening with Dr Guichet 2017

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Quote from: TIBIKE200 on January 17, 2017, 09:30:07 PM funny how its only monegal's patients who praise him that much in an almost childish fashion... This and the fact there isnt a single monegal's diary on old forum adds alot of suspition.... I will not even talk about cooper's case and MM's hiding the fact she was not ok for months...

Tell monegal to stop sending you guys for marketing... Its just sad
If you're talking about me let me tell you that in 1 post you have mentioned Monegal's name more than I've done in this entire thread and I only mentioned his name to answer a question.

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Changing the topic... I'm meeting Dr Guichet January 26th. Does anyone have any questions (regarding the lengthening, post-op or nail itself) that you would like to ask Dr. Guichet? For example, I'm gonna ask him what to do when you "lengthened too much" and have reduced range of motion, or other complication since the Guichet Nail can't go backwards as TIBIKE200 said.

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I was an avid reader of Unicorn diary and now she does not write anymore, and latest news was not so good.
So would be great if you could ask him about her and maybe be put in touch with her.

On a separate note: It seems you have done a lot of research of LL and about which doctor to go to.
One thing that I did, is find the worst case patients of the doctor and talk to them. Maybe you already have done, but just in case not I would recommend it.
For example, in case of Dr. Monegal the worst case patient I could find was "musicmaker". When "musicmaker" told me about the complications but still recommended Dr. Monegal as one of the best surgeons, I became convinced this must be true.

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Quote from: LLSouthAmerica on January 18, 2017, 01:49:47 AMChanging the topic... I'm meeting Dr Guichet January 26th. Does anyone have any questions (regarding the lengthening, post-op or nail itself) that you would like to ask Dr. Guichet? For example, I'm gonna ask him what to do when you "lengthened too much" and have reduced range of motion, or other complication since the Guichet Nail can't go backwards as TIBIKE200 said.

Ask him about the price in Milan

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Quote from: The Kaiser on January 18, 2017, 08:36:58 PMAsk him about the price in Milan

I answered that question earlier. For the surgery you have to pay in 2 different bank accounts: 28000 euros (nail implants) 31000 GBP (surgery itself). You can do the math. Pre-op exams, medications, cardiac and dentist consultation are not included.

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Please stop advertising for Dr. Monegal in this thread. Thank you!

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They're hijacking your thread. They should be banned.

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The more I read on this forum the more confused I get. I just wanted to comment on the statement that the skill of a surgeon is all about numbers. Of course , within common sense parameters, this is true but be careful about assuming that more surgeries equals superior surgeon. I had back surgery a few years ago. I was lucky, a guy who worked in the same part of the country was doing my procedure at the same time and was later taken to court for crippling people.

Thankfully I hadn't chosen to go with him. He got greedy, took on far too many surgeries per year and it turned out that he was relying on alcohol because of stress and was unfit to do his job. He was well known and as far as I know highly regarded, he just got too sure of himself and thought he could do whatever he wanted.The scary thing was that the staff around him were concerned but because of the culture of medicine didn't feel that they could whistleblow. Surgeons are gods!!

If I had gone by surgery numbers I dread to think how my mobility would be now. The other thing that was interesting was that this guy had a great bedside manner, the doctor I went with I found very hard to like as he was very cold and to the point. In the end I wanted his skills not his friendship but I can't say it wasn't hard . Both skills and bedside manner would be the ideal.

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I was justed stating my opinion, trying to be helpful.

You have posted on my diary and I enjoyed your posts!
 So from my diary you must know that I am not saying everything is 100% perfect and that my final judgement on Fitbone and Wittenstein company is still out.
But so far, and after having gotten so much more information over the last 2 months from other patients, I am confdent that I made the right choice with Dr. Monegal and Fitbone.

But, I will stop posting here.

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I apologise if I caused any offence, I wasn't even thinking about your particular surgeon when I posted and nor was I saying that your point about numbers of surgeries was wrong. I was trying to warn that there are lots of other things that have to be looked at than the upfront number. I  For instance I think Dr Pariwar sounds great but it makes me nervous that he hasn't had a lot of experience with Precise 2.

 Spain, in fact, would be a great choice for me and I am trying to keep an open mind and following your journey with interest, and I am very grateful to anyone who puts in the effort to share their journey when I'm sure they have a lot of other things to deal with.