Complaint / Review
Dr. James H. French Jr., MD
Made a huge mistake with my wife's forehead lift. Do not use him!

He was recommended by a friend. My wife and I went to see him about her getting a forehead lift. After meeting him and discussing the procedure in June we thought he was the right doctor for this procedure. July 9 my wife went under the knife. Well after my wife had the surgery and the swelling went done, my wife and I were shocked to see the result. There had been little or no change at all in her appearance whatsoever. She looked exactly the same as she had looked before going in under the knife. We were furious and very disappointed. Not only because we paid almost was $10,000 for this procedure, but my wife was also in a lot of pain for sometime afterwards.
When my wife went in for her first post surgery check up, I brought it to the doctors attention that we could see no change to my wifes forehead at all. Dr. French tried to prove to us that the procedure was successful, but when he turned and reached for the before pictures of my wife he knew he had made a mistake.
Instead of him showing us the before pictures as proof that the procedure was a success, he just quietly stuck them in the folder and continued the conversation with doubletalk and giving us the run around.
He would not admit that we were correct and that he had made a mistake. But he stated that he would redo the procedure again and we would have to pay only for the anesthesiologist who would come out to $1,800 and the hospital stay.
Now I wonder why he would want to redo the procedure. If it was done correctly the first time there would be no reason to go back and do it a second time. And nothing to redo!
My wife did not want to go through the whole ordeal again and declined his offer.
What we decided to do was, file a lawsuit to recoup the monies for her cosmetic surgery, but after much consideration, my wife decided not to pursuit the lawsuit against him, but rather except the offer they had made to refund us the $2,375 to settle this dispute. When my attorney, Ed Tolchin contacted his office back regarding the settlement they denied ever making us this offer.