Where does one start when one sees friends and former colleagues attacked with such vitriol and defamation?
These baseless attacks are overwhelming in scope and magnitude, and generated from what I can best see as two to three very disturbed people, not the other 7,000 happily satisfied patients. The people who are writing this vicious garbage obviously don't know the people that they are writing about. I have personally known Stephanie Darcy for over twelve years and Alan (Dr. Bittner) for four years. Steph and Alan don't even remotely resemble the characterizations written of them. It would be laughable if it wasn't so vicious.
I have known Steph as a highly gifted, intelligent, generous and caring person that excelled in her academics and that has helped me in my endeavors volunteering with children fund raising and just figuring out the meaning of life. Steph tends to succeed in whatever she tried and gravitated to, and surrounded herself with, achievers at the top of their profession. She is creative, funny, and very low key. That website that everyone loves is written by her and that's her voice.
When Steph and Alan got offered a big reality show, they turned it down when other doctors were literally begging for the chance. Why? Because they don't like drama. The worst thing I can say about her is that she is a terrible driver and his worse fault is that he does not suffer fools gladly.
Without belaboring the matter, lets' look at this rationally and simplify it.
Dr. Bittner is being discounted for his Stanford, UCLA Medical, and Johns Hopkins education. I'm sorry, what? Let that sink in before attacking it again and I think we can move on without addressing it further.
If one does erroneously choose to question his education, rest in knowing that those are some of the best medical and academic institutions in the world, period. You have to be the best of the best to get into them and realistically, posses a superior intellect—normally genius IQs and perfect SAT and MCAT scores (which he did)—and talent to get in there. To move on to the next institution means being the best of the best at the last best of the best. One does not get lucky that often, its skill and performance.
One doesn’t graduate as the valedictorian of your class because they’re stupid. In fact, you can't be valedictorian just by being a hard worker. The only way that you graduate at the top of your class from a top institution is to be highly intelligent and to be the best, the “best of the best.”
If you don't believe that, I would venture to guess you have not been at a school like Stanford or in challenging educational environment.
Ask yourself this, where did you go to school and why didn't you go to places like these?
And don't be fooled into thinking that these two grew up rich. Alan is the son of a plumber who didn't graduate from high school and Steph grew up sans family support and paying for her own education.
These are two very real people who are being attacked, not characters in a movie or book.
Unfortunately, some people seem to see them and their success as a “golden goose,” an easy target to try and fleece via loopholes in the legal system and extortion and defamation via the Internet.
So let's look at a couple more points: Alan’s previous medical focus and procedural experience.
Cardio radiology, simply explained, is that the best medical institutions in the world deemed Alan worthy and gifted enough to insert a instrument directly into someone's chest right into their beating HEART!
Again, let that sink in. If someone thinks that that's easy, without risk, and not needing of talents, I encourage you to insert small wires and a tube in to someone's chest, penetrate cardiovascular walls, and hope for the best and no potential problems because of the procedure’s 'simplicity' that anyone could do…
Ask your favorite and most trusted general practitioner to do it. They won't—in fact many a general surgeon wouldn’t pierce or enter the heart. That is your most serious organ and it takes a real expert, with experience, wisdom, knowledge and experience, it takes a professional.
Superficial body fat is not the heart. Its way down the list. Way, way, way down the list.
Liposuction itself was invented in Italy by a dermatologist and an OB/GYN, not by plastic surgeons that perform facelifts, facial resculpturing, rebuilding, eye work and orbital decompression or 'traditional plastic surgery.'
Liposuction, the removal of superficial fascia and fat deposits above the muscle below the derma is, while serious, not that complicated and it's DEFINITELY simpler than heart surgery.
Even discounting having few peers in the world educationally, Dr. Bittner has performed or supervised 7,000 procedures! That's amazing unto itself and its more procedures than most surgeons will do in a lifetime. That alone DOES make you an expert.
The inventors of the procedure initially performed one procedure, but as creators of the process, were then the ‘world experts.’ Yes, one surgery made them the ‘experts.’ Alan has 7,000. Even now, the physicians who invented this surgery have not done as many procedures as Alan! He has done MORE than the people who invented it. Again, let that sink in.
To put it simply, it's like saying that a four-time Super Bowl winning quarterback won't be good at lacrosse, even if he plays 7000 games. Or that after pro football, he could not go back and play high school football. That player has done more and achieved more at a higher level. Its just nonsense.
Alan’s experience at the ‘higher level’ game and the depth/quantity of that experience are testament and proof of that ability. Mind you, that is all without one single infection, one complication, one sickness or one death. It was with a perfect clinical and procedural record.
Dr. Bittner is a surgeon, not simply someone winging it, he IS an expert. If you think that if you did something 7,000 times—never mind coming into the game already better than anyone else—that you would not become very good at it, perhaps you need to look in the mirror.
So we have Stephanie Darcy, a highly intelligent and genuinely caring individual who is a creative marketing whiz who teamed up with one of the most talented and well educated surgeons in the country.
I understand why people may be envious of that kind of team, but should they be condemned for being good at what they do? They didn't steal from anybody, they didn't kill anybody, and they didn't promise miracles, they just offered a simple surgery at a simple price and became successful for it.
Dr. Bittner's skill set, academia, and medical achievements coupled with Steph's marketing made them known. Their attention to detail, staffing, affordability, and great service made them the capitol of the procedure with thousands of satisfied patients.
Think about it: they serviced thousands and thousands of people, only a few are unhappy (two lawsuits were proven to be by people who DID NOT EVEN have surgery, but wanted to jump on the lawsuit bandwagon) and most importantly, none are hurt.
Unfortunately, in today’s world, there are no businesses that have thousands of clients that do not have some crazies. One of their detractors has about half a dozen other hate websites criticizing her neighbors (their homes should be seized by the police), her internet service provider, and the park dog walker who she claims should be hunted down and jailed. Should GoDaddy be forced to terminate all its service contracts? These people—and that one in particular—are CRAZY! Even Banana Republic retail stores have protest websites! They haven't even hurt or killed anyone, they make clothing, but they have been successful and envied.
Lastly, Alan and Steph’s detractors don't even use their real names; have several 'cute' and innocuous sounding attack monikers with, get this, ‘emoticons’ (yes, that alone speaks volumes to their sanity, legitimacy, and veracity of their statements); utilize Internet loopholes in slander and liable laws versus the court system like normal decent individuals; rant like some lone assassin out to get the president sounding more like Timothy McVey, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, John Hinckley, Charles Manson and Lee Harvey Oswald than an unhappy patient with a legitimate grievance.
Do you seriously think that they should be “hunted down” and put into prison because a 50-year old woman with a sun damaged fat stomach isn't perfect now? Because she does not look like pictures of 17-year old 90210 cast members? That's ludicrous and why laws are in place and mob rule is out to protect society from crazies like this.
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These baseless attacks are overwhelming in scope and magnitude, and generated from what I can best see as two to three very disturbed people, not the other 7,000 happily satisfied patients. The people who are writing this vicious garbage obviously don't know the people that they are writing about. I have personally known Stephanie Darcy for over twelve years and Alan (Dr. Bittner) for four years. Steph and Alan don't even remotely resemble the characterizations written of them. It would be laughable if it wasn't so vicious.
I have known Steph as a highly gifted, intelligent, generous and caring person that excelled in her academics and that has helped me in my endeavors volunteering with children fund raising and just figuring out the meaning of life. Steph tends to succeed in whatever she tried and gravitated to, and surrounded herself with, achievers at the top of their profession. She is creative, funny, and very low key. That website that everyone loves is written by her and that's her voice.
When Steph and Alan got offered a big reality show, they turned it down when other doctors were literally begging for the chance. Why? Because they don't like drama. The worst thing I can say about her is that she is a terrible driver and his worse fault is that he does not suffer fools gladly.
Without belaboring the matter, lets' look at this rationally and simplify it.
Dr. Bittner is being discounted for his Stanford, UCLA Medical, and Johns Hopkins education. I'm sorry, what? Let that sink in before attacking it again and I think we can move on without addressing it further.
If one does erroneously choose to question his education, rest in knowing that those are some of the best medical and academic institutions in the world, period. You have to be the best of the best to get into them and realistically, posses a superior intellect—normally genius IQs and perfect SAT and MCAT scores (which he did)—and talent to get in there. To move on to the next institution means being the best of the best at the last best of the best. One does not get lucky that often, its skill and performance.
One doesn’t graduate as the valedictorian of your class because they’re stupid. In fact, you can't be valedictorian just by being a hard worker. The only way that you graduate at the top of your class from a top institution is to be highly intelligent and to be the best, the “best of the best.”
If you don't believe that, I would venture to guess you have not been at a school like Stanford or in challenging educational environment.
Ask yourself this, where did you go to school and why didn't you go to places like these?
And don't be fooled into thinking that these two grew up rich. Alan is the son of a plumber who didn't graduate from high school and Steph grew up sans family support and paying for her own education.
These are two very real people who are being attacked, not characters in a movie or book.
Unfortunately, some people seem to see them and their success as a “golden goose,” an easy target to try and fleece via loopholes in the legal system and extortion and defamation via the Internet.
So let's look at a couple more points: Alan’s previous medical focus and procedural experience.
Cardio radiology, simply explained, is that the best medical institutions in the world deemed Alan worthy and gifted enough to insert a instrument directly into someone's chest right into their beating HEART!
Again, let that sink in. If someone thinks that that's easy, without risk, and not needing of talents, I encourage you to insert small wires and a tube in to someone's chest, penetrate cardiovascular walls, and hope for the best and no potential problems because of the procedure’s 'simplicity' that anyone could do…
Ask your favorite and most trusted general practitioner to do it. They won't—in fact many a general surgeon wouldn’t pierce or enter the heart. That is your most serious organ and it takes a real expert, with experience, wisdom, knowledge and experience, it takes a professional.
Superficial body fat is not the heart. Its way down the list. Way, way, way down the list.
Liposuction itself was invented in Italy by a dermatologist and an OB/GYN, not by plastic surgeons that perform facelifts, facial resculpturing, rebuilding, eye work and orbital decompression or 'traditional plastic surgery.'
Liposuction, the removal of superficial fascia and fat deposits above the muscle below the derma is, while serious, not that complicated and it's DEFINITELY simpler than heart surgery.
Even discounting having few peers in the world educationally, Dr. Bittner has performed or supervised 7,000 procedures! That's amazing unto itself and its more procedures than most surgeons will do in a lifetime. That alone DOES make you an expert.
The inventors of the procedure initially performed one procedure, but as creators of the process, were then the ‘world experts.’ Yes, one surgery made them the ‘experts.’ Alan has 7,000. Even now, the physicians who invented this surgery have not done as many procedures as Alan! He has done MORE than the people who invented it. Again, let that sink in.
To put it simply, it's like saying that a four-time Super Bowl winning quarterback won't be good at lacrosse, even if he plays 7000 games. Or that after pro football, he could not go back and play high school football. That player has done more and achieved more at a higher level. Its just nonsense.
Alan’s experience at the ‘higher level’ game and the depth/quantity of that experience are testament and proof of that ability. Mind you, that is all without one single infection, one complication, one sickness or one death. It was with a perfect clinical and procedural record.
Dr. Bittner is a surgeon, not simply someone winging it, he IS an expert. If you think that if you did something 7,000 times—never mind coming into the game already better than anyone else—that you would not become very good at it, perhaps you need to look in the mirror.
So we have Stephanie Darcy, a highly intelligent and genuinely caring individual who is a creative marketing whiz who teamed up with one of the most talented and well educated surgeons in the country.
I understand why people may be envious of that kind of team, but should they be condemned for being good at what they do? They didn't steal from anybody, they didn't kill anybody, and they didn't promise miracles, they just offered a simple surgery at a simple price and became successful for it.
Dr. Bittner's skill set, academia, and medical achievements coupled with Steph's marketing made them known. Their attention to detail, staffing, affordability, and great service made them the capitol of the procedure with thousands of satisfied patients.
Think about it: they serviced thousands and thousands of people, only a few are unhappy (two lawsuits were proven to be by people who DID NOT EVEN have surgery, but wanted to jump on the lawsuit bandwagon) and most importantly, none are hurt.
Unfortunately, in today’s world, there are no businesses that have thousands of clients that do not have some crazies. One of their detractors has about half a dozen other hate websites criticizing her neighbors (their homes should be seized by the police), her internet service provider, and the park dog walker who she claims should be hunted down and jailed. Should GoDaddy be forced to terminate all its service contracts? These people—and that one in particular—are CRAZY! Even Banana Republic retail stores have protest websites! They haven't even hurt or killed anyone, they make clothing, but they have been successful and envied.
Lastly, Alan and Steph’s detractors don't even use their real names; have several 'cute' and innocuous sounding attack monikers with, get this, ‘emoticons’ (yes, that alone speaks volumes to their sanity, legitimacy, and veracity of their statements); utilize Internet loopholes in slander and liable laws versus the court system like normal decent individuals; rant like some lone assassin out to get the president sounding more like Timothy McVey, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, John Hinckley, Charles Manson and Lee Harvey Oswald than an unhappy patient with a legitimate grievance.
Do you seriously think that they should be “hunted down” and put into prison because a 50-year old woman with a sun damaged fat stomach isn't perfect now? Because she does not look like pictures of 17-year old 90210 cast members? That's ludicrous and why laws are in place and mob rule is out to protect society from crazies like this.
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