Guichetnail than guichet uses (a type of the obsolete albizzia) is fully weight bearing while modern nails like precise 2 aren't, thats why Paley and all sensible doctors don't let their patients walk unaided after surgery.
However, what Guichet does makes lengthening more painnful in addition to his crap nail that you should rotate your broken leg to start clicking and lengthening and all the working out bs that makes his patients do before LL in reality just makes lengthening harder.
Guichet follows a completely different patern about lengthening and rehabilitation compared to the best doctors in the world, that many times lead to disastrous stories like Unicorns which would have been completely ok if the protocol was the same as the one of other doctors'.
Guichet is one of the worst doctors to do LL nowadays, plain and simple.
Many times? How many other horrible Guichet stories have we heard about, aside from Unicorn? I'm sure she isn't the only Guichet patient with complications, but I'm talking about really bad cases like hers and MusicMaker's (though the latter isn't a Guichet patient).
As a Guichet patient myself, I agree that he can definitely be a jerk and is very disorganized. Although I managed to get through the ordeal mostly unscathed (I did have slow consolidation on my left leg, but per Dr. R, both of my legs are fully healed and ready to have the nails taken out), I will agree with you that maybe he does make the process more painful and arduous than it needs to be. The main draw for me was simply not wanting to be in a wheelchair for 6 months. If the Precice 3 is weight bearing, then I will agree, given the price, it's best to go to Paley or Rozbruch at that point.
But I don't believe that Guichet is "one of the worst" doctors as you make it. Yes, maybe I'm biased because he was my surgeon and my outcome was pretty good. But aside from Unicorn's (who is understandably being very vocal about her terrible experience - my heart goes out to her!), are we aware of any other Guichet patients have a similar experience? I don't mean slow consolidation, lots of pain, etc., but really severe complications requiring several surgeries like she has. I'm genuinely asking.