Subj: Lisa Harris e-mail
Date: 02/03/2002
Dear Dr. Eppley:
I wish to call your attention to the e-mail at the end of this message, containing statements by Lisa Harris regarding her discussion of me with you and a member of the Meridian staff. These are excerpt from some lengthy messages, but I have no desire to embarrass Lisa by sending you the entire contents at present. They are authentic, and I have the tracking information which appears at the end of the messages.
Dr. Eppley, I have reason to believe that similar comments passed between you and another surgeon whom I consulted regarding the serious problems I have had since my surgery with you. This doctor expressed his willingness to help me until his conversation with you.
I think it is time you and I have a talk. I do not want to cause any problems of ANY kind for you, and only ask that you either provide me with a much more detailed explanation of my surgery or that you make every effort to provide another surgeon with sufficient information regarding my procedure, WITHOUT embellishment of derogatory comments that will preclude my receiving the necessary SURGICAL intervention I require to correct the functional problems resulting from my operation in April.
My health is deteriorating as a direct result of the PHYSICAL complications caused by my inability to lift my head, which causes my jaw to pull down and back and my tongue with it, thus obstructing my airway with my head in an upright position. I have a very severe pulling downward of the lip depressor area and I am CERTAIN you plicated the SMAS in that area, which has made even normal animation impossible without the restriction of the platysma pulling down the plicated area in a severe contraction upon repose.
Dr. Eppley, I could cover, point by point, why the techniques you used created these problems, but quite frankly, I shouldn't have to. All I want is the possibility of regaining some function lost from your operation and a chance to return to the good health I enjoyed before last April.
I hope you will see your way clear to calling me as soon as possible. It would be a great relief to us both to clear the air. I am not the "dangerously mentally ill" person that Lisa Harris and others would have you believe. The only thing of which I am guilty is being smart enough to know what has gone wrong with my operations and why.
If I do not hear from you by February 10th, one week from today, I will assume that you do not wish to amend our differences one on one, and that you would prefer doing on a more official level.
Sincerely,
Lucille Iacovelli
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Subj: lucille
Date: 01/26/2002 11:41:01 AM Eastern Standard Time
To: Wallpepper@aol.com
i don't know about all the financial stuff, but i do know that because of her threats to kill her last surgeon and her obvious unstable nature, dr eppley is afraid she could come back and kill him... i talked to him about that... i think that is probably the reason he didn't pursue the money.
lisa
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Subj: Re: ps.. ??
Date: 01/26/2002 3:22:42 PM Eastern Standard Time
To: Wallpepper@aol.com
by the way... as for the length of time spent, did she tell you that she threw a fit when they told her that she had to have anesthesia? it took over an hour to get her to understand that she could not go into surgery without it... could be that was one of the reasons things had to be 'rushed' along...
lisa
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Subj: Re: ps.. ??
Date: 01/26/2002
To:
>>did she tell you that she threw a fit when they told her that she had to have anesthesia? it took over an hour to get her to understand that she could not go into surgery without it.. <<
lisa, did dr. eppley tell you about this or did lucille say this?
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Subj: Re: ps.. ??
Date: 01/26/2002 8:00:08 PM Eastern Standard Time
To: Wallpepper@aol.com
actually one of the ladies who works there i know who is a friend of mine.
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Here is the TRUTH about the above:
>> i do know that because of her threats to kill her last surgeon and her obvious unstable nature, dr eppley is afraid she could come back and kill him... i talked to him about that...<< This is a blatant LIE. The doctors who sued me and obtained restraining orders against me NEVER made such an accusation. Why did Lisa?
>> as for the length of time spent, did she tell you that she threw a fit when they told her that she had to have anesthesia? it took over an hour to get her to understand that she could not go into surgery without it... <<This so-called "fit" is another flagrant LIE. My operation, for which Meridian charged the full fee for the 4 1/2 hours time estimated by Dr. Eppley, was cut short when the nurse came rushing into the OR just before I got on the table with my consent form in hand, and pointed out the line I crossed out stating that I allow the surgeon to use the anesthesia of his choice, and wrote in "NO GENERAL/INTUBATED ANESTHESIA". The very first thing I establish with all surgeons I have ever consulted is that I would never, under any circumstances, agree to surgery if it involved general anesthesia. Dr. Eppley was no exception. Therefore, when he said he could not perform my operation after reading my changes to the consent form, I was shocked. I reminded him of our first conversation and my making conscious sedation a prerequisite of any elective surgery. He claimed that there must have been a "misunderstanding", and then proceeded to take me into a room, where he and his anesthesiologist proceeded to cajole me into having the surgery with general anesthesia. (I later learned the so-called anesthesiologist was NOT an anesthesiologist at all) Given that I had planned this surgery with him for several months, after extensive written and verbal communication, had made the trip of 1,000 miles 2 months previous, for a face-to-face, lengthy consultation, and was then 1,000 miles from home, totally alone, I made the biggest mistake of my life in going through with the operation ... an operation he cut short to 3 hours from the 4 1/2 hours ... and operation he assured me was his "big case of the day" and therefore, he had booked it last, so he could "take his time".
These lies, which to him, were nothing more than sales tactics, are factors upon which I chose him to perform my operation. When I awoke from anesthesia, unable to breathe, only to learn that Dr. Eppley was in the OR with another case, I had my first realization of his capacity for deceit. What happened to my being his "last case of the day" so he could "take his time"? This makes the vicious lies in which he and his staff are guilty, all the more despicable. A more rational question to ask would be: What surgeon in his right mind would agree to operate on a patient who was "throwing a fit"? The motivation for such lies by Dr. Eppley and the Meridian staff are self evident, but what was Lisa's reason?
>>actually one of the ladies who works there i know who is a friend of mine.<<Would you want to be a patient at Meridian, where surgeon and staff are guilty of false and demeaning slander while engaging in casual conversation? Obviously, they have as little respect for patient's privacy as they do for their own credibility.
