Dear Dr. Eppley:

In answer to some of your comments regarding what you called my "bizarre and irrational" behavior, I wish to point out the following:

>>a) Showing up for surgery believing that you were going to have it done under local anesthesia. This is something that we specifically discussed during your prior consultation.<<>>b) Showing up for surgery and having no mechanism to pay for it. Then immediately after surgery, canceling the venues that had been established to pay for it.<<

To the contrary, my bank statement shows a cash deposit and balance on April 18, 2001 in an amount MORE than sufficient to cover ALL costs. A cash deposit for $10,000 was made 2 days before my surgery; irrefutable proof that I had every intention of making PAYMENT IN FULL upon presenting for surgery. Therefore, your above statement is nonsensical, and only meant to divert attention from the real problem, which is the negligent manner in which you performed my surgery.

I was not aware that Fleet Bank imposed a $4,000 withdrawal limit per 24 hr. period. Meridian staff discovered this just before I was taken to the OR. I gave your staff my bank PIN code, to facilitate withdrawal of the entire amount. However, the bank said they would have wait 24 hours between each withdrawal. Therefore, you revieved $4,000 initially.

My reasons for stopping payment on the BALANCE, after the initial $4,000 was paid:

1.) Upon my return to the hotel after seeing you the day after surgery for removal of the drain, I found a phone message from Meridian informing me that an additional fee would be withdrawn from my account for "an extended stay" at the facility. In light of the reason I decided NOT to stay, (waking from anesthesia, unattended,and unable to breathe), I was obviously being exploited. In total, I received four very nasty calls regarding MONEY, but not a single inquiry about how I was doing.... NOT ONE. (Meridian notes LIE about this, as they state a call was made to find out how I was doing. THIS IS A LIE.

2.) By the second day I ascertained that you did NOT perform a full facelift on me as we had thoroughly discussed. You had NOT dissected down to the nasolabial fold (as per my previous facelift of which you had the operative report, accurate in every detail). Since the agreed PURPOSE of the surgery for which I engaged you was an attempt to re-establish adhesion between tissue planes that had become lax and detached from the muscles of expression (as stated in your consultation notes) this clearly could not have been achieved without dissection of the areas undermined in previous surgery. During our meeting 2 months before surgery, I explained that the hydrodissection had been carried down to the nasolabial fold and fibrous attachments freed at that juncture, as per Dr. Driscoll's report. Your comment was: "They all say they do that, but they really don't." I told you I was CERTAIN it HAD been done in my case, and showed you the intra-op photo which clearly depicts, in vivid color, the extent of the undermining.

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m home, I found this to be an extremely callous, if not threatening.