It's funny to hear about the comments, but am a hair surgical technician, worked with several hair surgeons...
I'll tell you a story, I was once was on the ISHRS in Florida sponsored by MHR, Dr. Ron Shapiro was demonstrating dense packing and I was assigned on his case, I still can remember because his best staff is on that case and we did the FUT, as we were placing we kinda divided the head so both of us can fit placing( if you know what i mean, any1 who has HT must know) so it happens I finished off my side first at least an hour before she was done, then Dr. Shapiro told me is the case done? said yes and he couldn't believe it... to sum it up I am used in doing dense packing with Dr. Ziering that Dr. Shapiro sites is a walk in the park... after that he called me to do the "stick and place technique" and got recruited to join his practice... no way I wouldn't live in MN... so in quality i would know Dr. Ziering is better at least compare to Dr. Shapiro.
Ethics, I don't know I haven't worked with him in a while, last was about 2003.
PS: If you're talking about expensive procedure try, $15,000 for 1200 grafts, or $10,000 for a scar revision, or $30,000 for 2200 grafts... any guess???? This MD is ofcourse is in NYC>>>