Again who told you he is an apprentice?
Absolutely definitely do not agree with 80% being the surgery itself. Even Paley said in his latest cyborg4life interview quote “most surgeons can install an internal nail- it’s not that difficult. But a good LL doctor knows the process and what to watch an eye out for […]”
Why is that? Considering how long this takes and how much you need to actively train. Everyone I met got the nail in perfectly. The outcomes however varied drastically by one factor: how much the person stretched/trained. I would say 30% is the surgery and 70% is patients compliance. This is why in the US they don‘t let you go home in my opinion. They are afraid of lawsuits so they keep you there and do 7 times a week PT where they force you to train/stretch and if you don‘t go they have it on paper. (Ofc this also is better to have a more consistent outcome in patients, for sure. The downside is the increased price).
Where did I not support my stance with arguments? I literally wrote why I disagree.
And again, I couldn’t disagree more.
Also I don’t see why Betz should be “a bad Dr in the end”, how did you come up with that? You probably read one diary of taller90 who did 11cm (and recovered well).
It’s like me saying: oh yea I heard Giotikas took 7h for femur surgery on one patient. He must be awful. There was a death case: He must be bad at the end. Oh someone got nerve problems, he must be not that good. Oh and remember that Paley patient who’s femur broke in the middle of the day post lengthening? Must be a terrible doctor to allow him to walk lol. (Echo chamber thoughts like these were why I quit this forum back then).
No, i dont think that way. I think Giotikas is a great option for European doctors. And I also think the death case was the patients fault, bc skipping prescribed medication =noncompliance (and also the reason why you should know the process in and out before you do it in my eyes).
Many patients of Betz did more than 10cm. Even Tall on the old forum did 12cm and he ended up with terrible knee pain due to a completely.off femur tibia ratio, something that Betz never mentioned to him.
He finally did LL in tibias too with Rozbruch or Mahboubian (I don't remeber) just to not end up crippled, although he didn't need the extra height as he was already about 1.87 after his first LL.
And there are many other cases of Betz with much more lengthening than the safe amounts. Yes I don't think he was a good doctor but someone who made his name when only very few doctors did LL, especially in first world countries of Europe. Another example (much worse though) is Guichet, a very expensive doctor with many very bad cases like Unicorn's etc.
I am in the LL world.more than 15 years (and 12 as an LLer) so I really know what I am talking about.
Betz and Guichet are nothing more than overestimated merchants. I don't know about Becker but he must do LLs less than 2-3 years because I haven't heard about him when I was back in the forum about 3 years ago.
And 3 years of.experience for LL is very little.
If he is more experienced than that then its my fault.
Finally, I insist that doing a successful surgery is the most important for LL. Thinking that just putting an im nail is easy and anyone can do it without problems is plain bs. Even more with externals which at least have the opportunity to fix some things after the initial.surgery, especially hexapods.
But with internals the surgery itself is even more than 80% of a successful outcome. With extrernals yes, the post surgery plays some major role.too.
But doctors like Betz and Becker do almost exclusively internals so if the surgery is not excellent then the final.outcome will be problematic for sure, no matter what the patient will do.
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