| Ragnar 2005-05-24, 10:55 pm |
| I think we already established that Kathy Griffin is nuts. What you
have posted only adds to that view. By my count, she's on at least
her 5th eye surgery now.
I really don't think there is any question that Griffin is a kook.
There is one thing that I do find strange though. I don't know enough
about Dr. Maloney to condemn him, however from this and other accounts
of him - he worries me. This is the same doctor that was briefly
pushing eye jewelry and apparently let a patient who had no business
being in the operating room, into the operating room with no mask or
booties, etc. That is illegal. Also, I get the impression that Dr.
Maloney does a lot of flap lifting and enhancements... too many.
If a malcontent is not happy with their good results after their
initial surgery, the odds are very low that they will ever be
satisfied. Except in rare circumstances, your best result is your
first result
It's probably not fair to mention this.. but it sounds to me like Dr.
M might be using his patients as guinea pigs to experiment on to learn
new things. Perhaps someone should buy him a jar of pig's eyes to
play with. Or better yet, send a load of pigs to his office, there
are several pigs employed by the sheriff's department around here that
are good for nothing else but medical experiments. High school
diploma, 6 weeks training, handed a gun, badge, car, and license to
kill. But I digress...
One more thing. Apparently Kathy Griffin demanded $250,000 then
$100,00 from Maloney. Why? She says she doesn't think he did
anything wrong. If she did get the money, obviously she would be
curtailed from speaking out against the people she got paid from. The
post below says Miss Griffin has refrained from speaking out.
Refraining from speaking out means you don't go on Entertainment
Tonight, Geraldo, and Oprah.
On 24 May 2005 10:56:22 -0700, "Sandy - LASIKdisaster.com -
LASIKmemorial.com" <sandy@savvysneaks.com> wrote:
> New York Post
> May 22, 2005
>
>COMIC'S EYE SURGERY NO JOKE
>E! CHANNEL comic Kathy Griffin, who claims she's losing the sight in
>her right eye after complications from Lasik surgery, warned "Extreme
>Makeover" ophtalmologist Dr. Robert K. Maloney that she would go to the
>media if he didn't cough up $250,000 - but denies threatening him.
>After several rounds of eye surgery performed by Maloney that began in
>2001, Griffin developed a condition known as "epithelial cell
>in-growth." This occurs in about 1 percent of eye surgery patients,
>causing blurring of the vision, but it can be managed, and sometimes
>cured, by having the cells cleaned away.
>
>In January 2004, Maloney told Griffin she would need to have the cells
>removed, but she never scheduled an appointment. Maloney's spokeswoman,
>Jemma Cunningham, told The Post's Don Kaplan that this was despite
>numerous letters and calls requesting she schedule a follow-up.
>
>In January this year, Maloney received a claim letter from Griffin's
>lawyers demanding $250,000 in damages. It stated, "You should also know
>that Ms. Griffin has been asked to speak about her eye surgery publicly
>(both on camera and in print) but she has refrained from doing so.
>Given the prior publicity and her objective injury, once the suit is
>filed, she will have no choice but to comment publicly about her action
>filed against you. This is not a threat. It is a statement of fact."
>
>Griffin did not file a suit, but met with Maloney on March 8 at Jerry's
>Deli in Westwood, Calif. Over coffee, Maloney says, Griffin demanded
>$100,000 or said she would go to the press. Since then, Griffin has
>appeared on "Entertainment Tonight" and "At Large with Geraldo Rivera"
>claiming she fears losing her vision in her right eye.
>
>But Griffin, who is having surgery on Tuesday to try fixing the problem
>with another doctor, denied demanding a payoff. She told PAGE SIX, "I
>never said, 'Give me $100,000 or I will run to the media.'"
>
>She added she no longer believed Maloney "had done anything wrong," but
>said she simply wanted to "tell her story" and make the point that
>Lasik was not risk-free.
>
>
>
>"I have lost 30 percent of my vision in my right eye. My vision is
>blurry and it is very light-sensitive."
>
>She admitted she did not return to Maloney as he advised, saying,
>"Yeah, he did tell me to come back, but I was nervous."
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