{"id":551,"date":"2007-03-12T11:13:32","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T16:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/03\/12\/plastic-surgery-patient-starts-website-and-successfully-defends-defamation-claim\/"},"modified":"2012-10-21T08:17:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T13:17:05","slug":"plastic-surgery-patient-starts-website-and-successfully-defends-defamation-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/plastic-surgery-patient-starts-website-and-successfully-defends-defamation-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Surgery Patient Starts Website and Successfully Defends Defamation Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic surgery patient Georgette Gilbert was unhappy with her results, and started a website called <a href=\"http:\/\/mysurgerynightmare.com\/\">My Surgery Nightmare<\/a>. On the site, she detailed her experience with Dr. Jonathan Sykes, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysurgerynightmare.com\/wst_page2.php\">before and after photos<\/a>. She had an endoscopic browlift, lower blepharoplasty, cheeklift and fat injections&#8230;and I must say that the &#8220;after&#8221; pictures are scary.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a snippet of what Georgette wrote on her site:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For me surgery was the biggest regret of my life. I didn&#8217;t need <strong>5 <\/strong>procedures and I had no idea what I was really getting myself into. What I thought was going to be subtle turned into a nightmare. I&#8217;ve spent over two years of my life meeting with doctors all over the United States and having revision surgeries in hopes to get back to how I once looked or at the very least look normal again&#8230; I have had some successful revisions but I can never get back to &#8220;my look&#8221; since there is only so much doctors can do&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Georgette filed a malpractice suit against Dr. Sykes, and he countersued for defamation. The court ruled against him on his counterclaim, based upon the website containing statements that were either true or a matter of opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic surgery patient Georgette Gilbert was unhappy with her results, and started a website called My Surgery Nightmare. On the site, she detailed her experience with Dr. Jonathan Sykes, including before and after photos. She had an endoscopic browlift, lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[835],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories","tag-defamation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-8T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}