A Chicago plastic surgeon, Dr. Jay Pensler, is suing his former patients for defamation after they posted bad reviews of his work on Yelp and Citysearch. Is that the scent of the easily offended on the air, or is it just old silicone?
Carol Oshana, the lawyer representing one of the plastic surgeon's former patients who is being sued, says Dr. Pensler ruined her client's body. "Her breasts look terrible. I mean, I hate the way she looks. She looks so bad," AOL News quoted Oshana as saying.
She said the suit's likely to be dismissed, but not before legal fees pile up on both sides. Countersuing does exist, but who'd want to after that long? If they lose on a technicality, that'd be even more fees.
Dr. Pensler insists he's being lied about. While photographs of the women's post-surgery scars hve been made public, Pensler's attorney, Mitchell Marinello, says they have been doctored. Surprise, surprise, he's blaming Photoshop.
The photographs are only part of the story from the plastic surgeon's former patients. They're being sued for posting multiple accounts of problems with Dr. Pensler's work.
When Oshana says her client's breasts look terrible, she may not be kidding at all. More than one of his clients said they hate the way theirs look, and it's just as bad as the photos. One review on Citysearch said "...I had Frankenstein breasts with the nipples placed too high." Another said, "...my areolas look like a drawstring purse."
The publicly available photographs of some of his former clients' post-surgery scars being doctored seems pretty unlikely, whatever Mitchell Marinello may want to say. It'd take several people with a large grudge to risk being publicly identified as liars to put together that many bad reviews.
And if bad reviews are defamation, as Pensler is insisting by suing his former patients, what will that mean to restaurants with crappy food? This could go very bad places if he wins.
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