Pat - Community Publisher

Thanks for sharing Melvin. Feel free to share experiences below what else people can expect during surgery. Bill

Do you enjoy helping hair loss suffers find optimal treatments, physicians and moral support? Are you knowledgeable about hair loss treatments and which clinics are providing optimal hair restoration surgery? If you have good written communication skills and a passion for helping other restore their hair you may be an excellent candidate to help us moderate our discussion forum, create news articles for our community and research potential new outstanding physicians. This part time paid position as a forum moderator and publishing assistant can be done from your home during flexible times. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of constructive posts on our discussion forum and social network, knowledge and experience with hair loss treatments and hair transplant surgery, and a passion for researching and writing about optimal treatments and leading physicians. Excellent communication skills are essential. Familiarity with web design and online promotion would be a plus. This position has room to grow into more responsibility and compensation for the person or persons who show a strong aptitude for innovating new ideas that help our online community grow more respected and popular. To be considered please message, Patrick - the publisher of the Hair Transplant Network, and provide the following information: Why you are interested in this part time position and why you believe you would do an excellent job. Tell us about your background, education, experience with hair loss treatments and current employment situation and current availability. What skills do you have that could help our online community grow and thrive? Tell us your full name, member name if you are active on our forum and your mailing address, email and phone number. We look forward to learning more about you. Onwards and Upwards, Patrick

Thanks for everyone's input. I will be contacting Joe soon to see if he is willing to work with us in addressing some of our concerns.

P.S. I intend to contact Joe directly to determine his future involvement with this community.

It pains me to read this topic. I remember when this community was begun by me in the late 90's when there was much need for improved techniques, accountability and transparency. Thanks to the vast compassion and sharing of thousands of patients, ethical and skilled physicians and staff and dedicated patient advocates like Joe, Bill and many many others this community established the highest standards in hair restoration and helped thousands of patients distinguish between hype and real patient satisfaction. Together with physicians committed to the very best care we all collectively raised the standards for care and online accountability. Some physicians who received poor reviews or who had their recommendation suspended sued us to either have the poor reviews under the rug or to be reinstated. As a community we held together and stood behind the right of patients to make critical posts when genuine and we prevailed every time in over 13 major law suits over 15 years that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. All for the right of "free" speech and transparency. So I believe in the right of free speech when it is genuine and will fight for it. I believe everyone has a right to their genuine opinions on treatments and physicians. I also believe in reciprocity and working together in cooperation. Joe has benefited from his association with this community as we have from his involvement. Yet on his website where he discusses forums he makes no reference to this forum community nor does he provide a link to it for the benefit of any visitors on his site. Why? We've worked for years to establish a community where only physicians who have been reviewed and screened are formally promoted to the public. In resoproclty to meet our expenses ranging from defending patient free speech, numerous conferences, over 50 visits to leading clinics world wide to document surgeries, technical programing, servers etc etc we do require these clinics to pay a sponsorship fee that is affordable relative to the benefits to them and their patients. This has worked well for patients and leading physicians for well over a decade and saved clinics vast amounts in advertising expenses. Ideally I would like to see us all work cooperatively to provide the very best resources and recommendations. I know that with techniques and physicians changing that researching and presenting the very best is a constant process. I would like to improve this process. I will soon be reaching out to this community to enlist knowledgeable help with this process and in providing additional patient support. Those who do help us improve our recommendations and services will be generously rewarded. Running this community is a big job and we could use more dedicated help. I welcome this community's input on how we can work together to make this community optimal for all. Those who have an interest in such work are welcome to email me directly at pat@mediavisionsonline.com and let me know how you can make this community better, part time or full time. Let's move past division and work together synergistically for the greater good of patients and the clinics who are committed to giving them the very best. There is plenty of to go around, including the work, if we pull together to build on what has already been built with this community. Onwards and Upwards, Patrick Hennessey (the original "Recovering Bald Guy" :-)

Dave, Congratulations to you on ascending into the "celestial" plane - and in 2012 no less :-) All your help and massive karma has propelled you and this community to a new level. Let me know what it's like up there and perhaps I'll join you in a couple hundred more posts. Thanks for all the thoughtful and kind help you bring to this community. You're a true blessing.

Taking the Plunge, Thanks for giving Rizwan such indepth feedback on his thoughtful questions!

Recently DHI requested that we share the following statement, written by them, on our forum. In the interest of fairness to all parties, we have posted their statement below. This statement is their point of view and does not necessarily represent our views or beliefs. We also want to make it clear to all forum members that none of the posts or topics that DHI has had an issue with have been removed or censored on this forum. All parties to these past controversies have had ample opportunity in the past to respond to and debate the issues discussed in the topics in question. It is not our place to be the final arbitrator of truth regarding all claims and statements made by third party posters on our forum. Rather it is up to the adult viewers of this forum to determine for themselves what to believe regarding these prior topics. The purpose of this topic is to provide the below notice on behalf of DHI. No additional posts or replies will be hosted on this topic. Best wishes, Patrick Hennessey - Publisher of this online community Statement by DHI: Dear Sir/Madam RE: Postings about DHI on Hair Restoration Network. “DHI would urge any readers of the comments that appear on this forum about DHI to keep in mind the following. DHI has repeatedly asked that the alleged authors of the comments and opinions expressed about DHI to identify themselves, to state when they had an alleged DHI procedure the dates of the alleged procedure, to post their alleged before and after photos, and which clinic that they had the alleged procedure in order to verify the information posted about DHI. This information was requested in order for the posters to authenticate themselves and prove that they are real DHI clients and base their opinions upon real DHI experiences and this is deemed to be a reasonable and legitimate request by DHI. However to date no information requested has been produced. DHI has also asked for the identity of the posters who defame DHI without being clients of DHI as their sole aim seems to be to cause damage to DHI. DHI has requested to remove such postings that are unverified with the information requested by DHI as they violate the forums own policy. For now the forum has decided to freeze all postings regarding DHI until further notice.”

Thanks Shadow. We do our best and it's good to see our efforts recognized.

Those who have been on this forum for a while know that we host all genuine posts - the good, bad and the ugly - regardless of the physician or clinic. Lisa, I'm not aware of any service called "Medical Justice". But we certainly don't allow anyone to white wash our forum, whether the clinic is recommended or not or they have their lawyer harassing us and breathing legal fire down on us. Fortunately we've stood up to and won so many lawsuits that were intended to censor our forum that physicians in general know we don't cave under legal pressure and now they tend to not file such frivolous lawsuits. As for Dr. Sam Lam, I met him recently at a physician's conference. He presents himself very well. But I do see that he has had some very mixed reviews online. I'd be very disappointed if he did require his patients to not share unfavorable results. Bill and I have emailed his office to learn more about this in order to set the record straight. They have been invited to reply to this topic. Hopefully they are confident enough in their work to believe in the transparent sharing of their patient's experiences. Onwards and Upwards, Pat

DHI - "We love an honest debate and we are here for 41 years because we care .. LOL THE DHI TEAM" Really, "you love an honest debate"? That is truly "LOL" given that today your legal department sent me yet another demand letter that virtually every topic and post that is critical of DHI (a very long list) be removed or you will sue us. You've been threatening to sue this community and many of your patients for years now. What's the hold up? Bring it! I love a good public "debate" and so does this community. P.S. I suggest you have management call some of the other physicians and clinics who brought frivolous lawsuits against this community. Those who've been members of this community for a few years know how that worked out for them.