After all, nobody is better at magical thinking than young children, and raising a girl as a boy, or vice-versa, is implicitly, if not explicitly, affirming the child in the belief that one day her wish will come true. In 2006 M received a total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (which meant that Ms uterus, cervix, fallopian tubes and ovaries were all surgically removed). There are those of us who have had to use said medications for their exact purposes and to be blunt, no one, no sane person in their right mind would want to be on those for an extended time. wondering if youd be willing to chat with me further? If you have had a phalloplasty and have a horror story or know someone who has please go to my website http://www.thetransgendertruth.wix.com/mysite. Part 3 is here. But a San Francisco Superior Court record search for Doctors Thomas Satterwhite, Michael Safir, Richard Santucci, Ashley DeLeon, and Charles Lee, all surgical partners in Dr. Cranes practice, does not reveal any pending medical malpractice lawsuits for any of these doctors. I was going to go to Dr. Crane in Austin for mtf body contouring, but I recently found out about the many lawsuits against him posed by his phalloplasty patients. Some commentators argue that keeping medical malpractice settlement amounts confidential hurts the public: Secret nondisclosure agreements also affect patient safety by allowing bad doctors and other dangerous medical providers to continue to harm patients because their incompetency is hidden from their present and future patients and employers. In March 2019 (following the three post-Crane surgeries), M stated that he still had an abscess in his pelvis where his vagina had been. What one will notice when a reasonable attempt at a debate about the issues involving the brigade is attempted, the reversion to schoolyard level tactics comes across on the part of the person[s] from the community. How about we actually stop the problem? Before getting into the details, we wondered whether perhaps lawsuits are a common occurrence in practice areas such as this one that involve relatively experimental or new procedures, and a patient base that might tend to have unreasonably high expectations. Why is this experimental surgery even allowed? Blog posts on the matter can be found here, here, and here. 1. What we do know is that none of these dismissals appear to have been the result of a jury or other type of fact-finding proceeding that evaluated Dr. Cranes conduct and made any findings about negligence or malpractice. For an added bonus, prospective patients may even be able to receive a free initial surgery consultation, right there at the conference! Isnt there a consumer watchdog organisation that should be exposing the low success rate of these operations? The Crane Center has wasted no time in accessing potential new patients, sending attractive representatives to attend such conferences as Gender Odyssey in San Diego and the Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference, and sponsoring art festivals and pride events. Sure monetary settlements are great, but at what cost, the cost of someone else going through what you went through? i had top with garramone in 13. Shepherd v. Crane, CGC-17-559294, dismissed October 3, 2018. The fact that he insists that he never said that is a complete lie and its a slap to the face for many of us who believed in him, his confidence, his cool, calm, and collected demeanor as he would go through his spiel. Yet, one of the huge benefits to being young is that, by and large, a young person doesnt have to worry about chronic health problems. Any internet searches for brownsteincrane.com result in a re-direct to Crane Center for Transgender Surgery, a practice operating in California and Texas. These surgeons are not about helping people with Gender issues it is all about $$$$ . While there are those who will deny that fact, it has been covered up. Ive not had surgery with Crane but I have met with him twice while accompanying a friend who has had 2 successful surgeries with him. We all know that once the lawsuits start rolling in, it will be hard to defend the mutilation of young peoples bodies. I have been doing YouTube videos I think I will go public with it all. But for Jacobs parents, and their many peers, perhaps it should be. Imagine being harmed by someone, like so beyond the point of return, and yet the only person who can help you is the person who did you harm. Your comment will have a better chance of publication if it makes a constructive contribution to the topic at hand. But then again, arent most of these surgeons like that? Its impossible to know. Research has revealed some interesting facts and circumstances about Dr. Crane. I had surgery with Dr. Crane and it was one complication after another that ruined my life emotionally and financially. However, plaintiff claims a week after phalloplasty, he suffered numerous complications and needed to undergo multiple revision surgeries to the correct the complications of the procedure. * These stories are absolutely heart-breaking. Which is ridiculous. The plaintiff had already undergone a vaginectomy (surgery to remove all or part of the vagina) and a scrotoplasty (a plastic surgery designed to transform part of the female genital area into a scrotum). It has graphic pics and videos and breakdowns of what I experienced. The Newsletter Bringing the Legal System to Light. Does anyone know of an experienced, reliable and professional attorney from Austin Texas who can help my friend? As though truth is a menace and honesty is to be ignored. This happened to a proven 9-10 guys out of hundreds of men who had surgery. 4. What we do know is that none of these dismissals appear to have been the result of a jury or other type of fact-finding proceeding that evaluated Dr. Cranes conduct and made any findings about negligence or malpractice. We dont publish comments which spread suicide contagion and/or misleading information about suicidality. Had I also been educated by him in regards to possible complications and how they resolve them (meaning, some take 2, 3 4, 5, 6 more surgeries to repair), I would have never have gotten the surgery to begin with. I liked cranes results initially as i researched him for a number of years. Each time a see new critical review a day or so later their is a raving A++ looks suspicious, Ive had surgery with guy and I dont believe ANYONE that surgery with him would be raving, I havent met one yet. And Im also sorry that your community (Im assuming your husband is FTM) let you down on this one. M was forced to take off work from September 2015 through February 2016 (5 months), then returned to work in March of 2016, but had to stop working again in November 2017. A lack of reporting on this topic does not automatically equate with a lack of care. Taylor Carson v. Crane, CGC-17-556743. For what amount of damages? Again, though, the question naturally arises should the practitioners in this field be immune from liability, because the over-riding need for care is so great? I agree and Im transgender and Ive had a phalloplasty with Dr. Crane, it should be illegal.That is coming from someone that has had one. Doe v. Crane, CGC-17-560690 was dismissed March 15, 2019.[1]. This story received no media attention. First, he literally gave me the ideal erect and flacciid penis both in length and girth from a woman's perspective. Its not clear when Dr. Santucci joined Dr. Cranes practice, but he does not appear to have been part of the earlier Brownstein-Crane incarnation: Not to worry, though: Dr. Safir remains busy in San Francisco. Sometime things happen, so he has 8 malpractice suits, but how many has he performed well? Most commonly, this inpatient surgery is performed in transgender men or non-binary people as a type of gender-affirming surgery. Part 2 is here. It could be zero, it could be $10 million. Yes, suicide is terrible, but stop holding people hostage with this because all rational discussion after that stops.. I just finished reading Robert Bartholomew and Benjamin Radfords book, The Martians Have Landed: A History of Media-Driven Panics and Hoaxes (2012). Stories are important, but unfinished stories can be deceptive. The usa is more litigious culture than most others. PS Your the first person I know that didnt have major complications, again Im happy for you, thats really cool. We are seeking for better care and hopefully, no one will ever have to go under the knife of Dr. Crane. I am 23 years old trans I had a breast augmentation with dr crane and it was the worst experience of my life I threw away 10k and I will be afraid to go back to do the breast augmentation although I know it was due to incompetence of such fear was that I came to think that I had put old implants in my body and one bigger than the other in different dimensions, I had some 4-year-old hormonal breasts and ended up flat because of Crane I couldnt do anything because I also signed papers and By the way they wanted to make me feel like I was not sure I was transsexual just because of how horrid my breasts were that I had them removed. I cant even express how enraged I am about the current trans movement in their pregnant man/ women have penises! (uro-genital reconstructive surgeon); Ashley DeLeon, M.D. I am with you brother in every sense, email me scottnewgent@gmail.com I am not afraid of the tomatoes to be thrown and am and will take on this fight for us all! Part 2 is here. Dr. Crane now appears to practice in Austin, Texas, and has been joined there by Dr. Richard Santucci (together with Dr. DeLeon); Dr. Safir holds down the fort in San Francisco and has been joined by Dr. Angela Rodriguez. FTMs are a statistically smaller amount of the population. This post updates the reader on the various lawsuits now pending against Dr. Crane, and also documents the peculiar silence with which these allegations have been greeted in the transgender community. One of the other doctors that perform surgery with Crane told me that Crane creates mistakes because he makes MORE money fixing his intentional problems. Check out especially chapter 8 on Pokmon Panics. (p. 44) Its one of the greatest cases of mass suggestion in history, In 1997, Japanese TV reported that watching a cartoon could make children sick. After all of this, M continued to suffer from gender dysphoria. Trial is set for December 17, 2018. Transpeople have got to be lowest on the totem-pole for any type of funded medical research. Im very happy that Cayden has been able to move on and build a new life. This wasnt Jacobs first time in the spotlight, either. Even though he ruined sacred parts of me even though he stole much of my trust in people or damaged my spirithe did not destroy me and I will do whatever it takes so that NO one has to go through what I and many others have gone through. Dr. Lee is skilled in surgically creating a penis for trauma victims, cancer patients, and transitioning female-to-male patients with designer flaps and phalloplasty. Doe v. Crane, CGC-17-557327 was dismissed November 8, 2018. There are no soft-focus interviews, picture books, or product tie-ins. He performed phalloplasty on me in June, 2016. Most important, it appears that Dr. Crane may no longer be performing surgery in the state of California (although his medical license is still current in that state). What is notable is that, as of the time of our earlier article in 2018, Brownstein-Crane was a thriving California transgender medical practice. . Since our last coverage of medical malpractice litigation against renowned phalloplasty surgeon Curtis Crane, M.D., we've received frequent inquiries about the current status of the lawsuits and his practice. How? This just strikes me as something to say rather than attempting to engage in any way with the substance. Apparently not. If the trans community would wake up and see how he has his lawyers communicate with those who had to deal with complications one couldnt even dream about they may realize who he really is. YouTube videos sing his praises (see Dr. Excellent investigative journalism, worriedmom. I am thankful to come across this as I was thinking of having the erectile device and testicular implants with Dr. Crane. This will often stimulate new discussion. Part 1 is here. Shepherd v. Crane, CGC-17-559294, dismissed October 3, 2018. Consider the case of Windell Boutee, the Georgia cosmetic surgeon who filmed herself in the operating theatre rapping while performing surgery, whose patients only stepped forward after one brave woman spoke out. Having seen the photos of what Dr Curtis Crane has done to my friends arm, that arm will never recover, believe that Dr Curtis Crane should stop performing phalloplasty. Does that good experience nullify the remotest possibility that not everyones experience was so good? The lawsuit against Dr. Crane arose because, while M alleged that he repeatedly told Dr. Crane and his staff that he did not need a vaginectomy and a scrotoplasty, those having already been performed by Dr. Meltzer in 2011, M stated that Dr. Crane over-rode his instructions and both cut into the area where Ms vagina had previously been, and damaged and dis-placed Ms scrotum (as discussed more fully below). The Crane Center has wasted no time in accessing potential new patients, sending attractive representatives to attend such conferences as Gender Odyssey in San Diego and the Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference, and sponsoring art festivals and pride events. Will the documents from the first court case be public? I will do whatever it takes to make sure no one goes through what I went through ever again. Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy are taking their show on the road in this new miniseries! Perhaps some of his current or former patients will enlighten us. Will be used in accordance with our terms of service & privacy policy. Since our initial post about Dr. Crane and his legal troubles, one of the lawsuits that was then pending against him has apparently been settled, and two more have been filed. Third I find your lack of compassion for these plaintiffs to be somewhat unsettling. I am angry.. Now? Of all those doctors, today only Drs. It has come to our attention that Dr. Crane has been the defendant in no less than six lawsuits during the last year. Thomas Satterwhite, M.D. Even after 6 years I would love to die today I cannot recover from Cranes brutality and despise the transgender community activist for promoting and protecting this butcher. I have no problem with urination, but sensitivity isnt great. Dr Crane would tell-all to patients and often it was like a game of telephone. With fellowship training in transgender surgery and craniofacial surgery, our surgeons have the training and experience to provide superior FFS results. Its not clear when Dr. Santucci joined Dr. Cranes practice, but he does not appear to have been part of the earlier Brownstein-Crane incarnation: Not to worry, though: Dr. Safir remains busy in San Francisco. "Single stage" phalloplasty involves the creation of a neophallus, UL, vaginectomy, scrotoplasty, and perineal reconstruction. No one here is against anyone . I hope this doc has to pay through the nose. I will say, there is momentum moving and many of us will soon be coming forward-large media coverage-you name it. But thats just it, Dr Crane wasnt giving that information-even if asked and I myself had many consultations with him. As soon as I pressed him for the surgeon or where he got it done he vanished. You seem to be reaching to figure out any possible way to blame them for their own misfortune. (plastic surgeon); Heidi Wittenberg, M.D. But guess what? No body or procedure is perfect and there are inherent risks. Crane's got absolutely ridiculous wait times because he's one of the high profile surgeons for phalloplasty. These are horrible outcomes, and its not just a lone person reporting them. Then, in March 2018, Dr. Garcia and another surgeon again performed surgery on M, this time to re-place the existing penis (which was also displaced), and to re-orient Ms scrotum. To be judged by anyone for any reason is just so sad especially your own community because you want to speak out about a botched surgery . Any internet searches for brownsteincrane.com result in a re-direct to Crane Center for Transgender Surgery, a practice operating in California and Texas. Hello, I actually came here because I am doing research on medical malpractice that preys on the transgender community. [1] Interestingly, on March 7, 2019, Cranes defense counsel in this case was ordered to pay a $1,800 sanction for misuse of the discovery process.. I am so so sad to hear what you have been through . The entire penis was later removed, and the plaintiff was informed by another doctor that he never should have been considered for this surgery. The rest need to realize this is misinformation to say its a experimental surgery that shouldnt be allowed. Where do they all go? According to the survey, surgeons, such as Dr. Crane, are particularly likely to be sued (85% of them have faced a malpractice suit at some point in their careers). Doe v. Crane, CGC-16-550630 was dismissed April 5, 2017. He is a psychopath and shouldnt have a medical license. He is calling for a class action lawsuit. Clearly, many of the lawsuits state that. In other words, it does not appear that an independent arbiter has reviewed the facts of these cases and ruled on whether the care provided either complied, or did not comply, with established standards of care. This is not surprising, since over 90% of all medical malpractice cases never go to trial. 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