Thank you for finding my prior post. Near that post is another post with discussions amplifying my comments; however, I do not specifically recall what I wrote so I leave it to you to find and read those amplifying posts.
Reviewing my post regarding criteria for selecting an MD that you shared, those criteria still seem valid and appropriate to me.
Medical education is important; education creates a foundation for experience. However, once educated, experience becomes a far more important criteria in my opinion. That is, I would rather be defended for murder by a guy who went to night school and challenged the bar exam but won 100 murder trials than be defended by a Harvard valedictorian on his or her first murder trial.
Mohoubian is a more pertinent example. He is a DO rather than an MD; yet, he has significant experience in limb-lengthening. His experience should vastly override any concern about his education.
I did not choose a surgical team in India because, in part, India is not a first world country. However, one should not generally extrapolate to conclude that a quality limb-lengthening result is not possible in India. India has first-world surgical facilities and first-world surgical teams even though the country in general is not considered a first-world country.
If you want to rely on your neighbors' opinions regarding professionals in the neighborhood; then, you are free to do so. I am not a fan of testimonials unless I can support such testimonials by objective evidence.
I do not agree that costs and logistics are easy to evaluate. It is plain that using the MD next door is easy. It is far from clear how complicated using a geographically distant MD may or may not be.
Whichever path you choose, I wish you all the best.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply and addressing all my concerns.
asking neighbours is indeed not objective. but the only completely objective way is to find evidence of malpractice in public records. even dr Paley who is considered god like has these. dr M probably doesnt (couldn't find any). but more the surgeries a surgeon does, more the chances of something having gone wrong at some point
it's all the more hard to find these records in other countries. guichet probably has some in france but Ive not found any documents. betz, some patient had taken him to court once. in India, I dont think anything like this would even surface up. courts are not for normal people in developing countries like India.
there is at least one patient of dr rozbruch who claims he abandoned them after a surgery didnt go right and no doctor would taken them. there are some youtube videos on this. This seems to a strange problem in US. Surgeons abandoning their patients and other surgeons being hesitant to take up such cases.
other than that, diaries on the forum, google reviews and other website reviews can be easily faked or mis represented. that's why I felt a good surgeon would have good reputation locally and that could be a good way measuring his (or her) ability. please suggest any other objective ways (not counting educational, writing books, getting phd etc)
This is a very complicated problem to solve