He's notorious for doing surgeries on an out-patient basis in motel rooms, garages, or anywhere you could set up a bed and supply some towels, and eventually going to jail for fatally botching a leg amputation on a body-integrity disordered patient (ie, healthy limb, shit brains) in Tijuana (his US license had been revoked a decade prior).
Present-day equivalents are the US doctors Kathy Rumer and Chris Salgado. Salgado was just removed from his post at the U of Miami clinic this month for his Instagram posts featuring such wonders as a
bisected penis pinned down in a heart shape, and x-ray of a large dildo that detached from a trans man's harness before lodging deep in their partner's anus. I'm sure that was already featured in this thread.
Rumer has a lot of horror-show threads on reddit that I don't have time currently to pull from, but damn, maybe soon because
damn.
There are rumors and bad stories about literally
every surgeon, though. One wonders what it takes (beyond the social media abuse from Salgado in the face of the intra-community, socially-enforced wall of silence about bad outcomes) to tip any given surgeon into the bad category.
But really, who cares unless we ask ourselves that perennial question:
what about the children?
Male children who go on "hormone suppression therapy" (a 100% safe and reversible process, TRAs/reddit troons will happily tell you in spite of much evidence to the contrary) are rarely left with enough penile and/or scrotal tissue to go through with the two most-standard modern SRS techniques. The study linked above is one of their remaining options: excision and reimplantation of a length of
sigmoid colon tissue. Sigmoid transplant is a technique originally developed for actual females, so I found this one's specific focus on a population undergoing massive growth--that is, until they start popping Lupron, har har--interesting. The sample size is limited (42). Of that, 16.7% needed a secondary surgical correction (take note, Thai ladies!!), 7.1% needed
immediate secondary re-operation, and 1 patient (2.3% of the sample - hopefully an outlier) straight up died from septic shock.
That last patient is the focus of this study.
And this is considered a ringing endorsement of the treatment.