I am considering Rozbruch, but am thinking about Dr. Mahboubian because he's more affordable.
I've read a lot of negative things about Dr. Mahboubian on this forum like how he changes his prices often, has people on this forum market/promote him, and the techniques that he uses to advertise leg lengthening. It seems like he's more of a business man than a doctor. I have read a couple of good diaries about Mahboubian too though so I'm a tad-bit confused about him overall. How does everyone else feel about Mahboubian?
Hi Pickingasurgeon,
What is your criteria of selection look like? When you can, provide a weight ranking from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest) as far as importance goes for the following criteria, below. Then go through and grade each doctor on the same criteria. Muliply the weight x the grade and add them up and you will at least have a basic scoring system. This score would not serve as the decision making factor; but could provide some further basis for your decision making process.
Proximity to home:
Cost:
Experience:
Successful Diaries on LL Forum.Com:
Successful Diaries on other websites:
Hospital and Facilities of Surgery:
Physical Therapy:
Conversation w/ Prior Patients:
Marketing Approach:
Add any other important criteria:
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It will help to know this while making suggestions for whom you should pursue as your doctor. For me, Dr. Mahboubian's office was right up the road and he is roughly $50K less expensive than Dr. R; and my cost and convenience weighting and grades were starting to sway in favor of Dr. M. Throw in the success diaries I read, and I arrived at a decision quite easily. I was able to conveniently endure CLL and other than being on crutches for a while, I maintained my job, family life, friends, etc. So with that said, Location/Proximity was weighted as a 5 for me and Dr. M's grade was a 5 with total Location score of 25. Confused yet? haha . I would go through and first weight the importance of the above areas and then grade each Doctor based on similar criteria. I will say that both Dr. R and Dr. M are proven CLL surgeons. Many things to consider here.
Good luck with your decision and I hope we are able to provide some good insight for you.