Friedman Gary, MD

If I could have given minus stars I soooo would have. Im also still angry at this jerk who ruined by body. Ruined! I searching him down after an unfortunate time away from San Francisco. Can’t wait for our first call… I almost died… and I never even got a sorry or zip… I have pockets of areas that still after 8 years need to be fluid reduced with needles regularly. After I couldn’t wear the girdle because of my blood transfusion and all… He said that was normal… welll f… that!!! sooooo not normal. We’ll be refreshing our relationship very soon!!!

I’m still angry at this jerk even though my plastic surgery with him was some years ago. I went to see him about lip lines; he told me there was nothing to be done about them (!), then proceeded to talk me into an eye lift. What was I thinking?!? In fact, during this rope-‘em-in phase, he was oily and warm and cloying. As I lay, drugged and scared on the table ready to be wheeled into the operating room, he chose this moment (holding my hand, smiling & cooing) to ask if he could experiment with injecting the area beneath my eyes with fat to keep them plumped and I stupidly said yes. His experiment backfired – to this day I have very obvious protruding white lumps beneath each eye. When I returned post-​surgery, he offered to remove the lumps, at this point growing surly and ill-​tempered. As he swabbed my face with antiseptic, he told me not to touch it. It itched so I pointed to the spot and he started to YELL at me angrily, «I told you not to touch your face, dammit!» Well, the fix didn’t work, the lumps are still there. He also never mentioned that I would have to spend several days afterwards with pieces of tape on my face until after he was finished which would have been good to know as I had guests coming to visit that week. On the whole, I think Gary Friedman is a misogynist with a fake seductive, oily manner and I would discourage anyone from getting anywhere near this man with a scapel in his hand.

I am a longtime patient of Dr. Friedman’s. I’ve had several cosmetic and one plastic (i.e. wound related) surgeries. His manner is confident and supportive, and the results were always terrific. I’m turning 60 soon, and I’ll be back… Highly recommended.