I had gastric sleeve surgery with Dr. Almanza several years ago (with a wonderful experience by the way) and was looking into different options for either a resleeve or plastic surgery to help lose the last few stubborn pounds. I started visiting this forum and talking with WeightLossAgents again and just saw all the recent posts/attacks from patients who had complications, were abandoned, no follow-up, etc. I have to say, this was a complete surprise to me as my experience was nothing short of perfect (with some minor complaints about the night nurse crew and me neglecting to bring my Gas-X strips). There has also never been a time where I call WeightLossAgents and nobody answers. And I bother them A LOT! I don't believe they would ever ignore anybody's phone calls.
But aside from all of that, one of the coordinators sent me these links for two articles showing that one of the competing coordinators, Melissa Bracker (who was actually around when I scheduled my original surgery!) is trying to extort Dr. Almanza for $30,000! And that she's wanted in Mexcio now for criminal charges! That's insane! It mentions some of these patients by name as well. I've seen tons of posts attacking Dr. Almanza, but not a single one about these articles?!?!
It mentions both Melissa and even one of the patients, Kaycha Baez, calling Dr. Almanza directly and threatening to go to the news stations with their stories if he didn't pay them $30,000! I'm using Google Translate, as these original articles are in Spanish, so I'm really hoping something was just lost in translation. I would hate to see a patient involved in something like that. In all the other posts I've read recently, they boast that they just want to help future patients, but if that was the case, why would you promise to keep a story like that quiet just for money? You wouldn't be helping anyone.
I hope all the previous posters that were so active in attacking Dr. Almanza will be able to provide some type of feedback, as I truly believe there is always 3 sides to every story. But I'll leave the links here and let everyone else decide for themselves. I still plan on returning for my resleeve or maybe some plastic surgery with WLA and I'm sure I will receive the same treatment that I've been used to over the past years.
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This forum won't allow me to post links, so I attached a text file to this post with the links listed there. Or just Google "Extorsionan a médico de Tijuana"
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