Title:
Clarifying Photos shown on Farrel Mane's website
My
name is Paul V and the attached “before” and recent
“after” photos are of me.
I
was a NW 7 and I saw Dr Ray Woods and Dr Angela Campbell in May
2001 and had three procedures comprising a total of 1500 grafts (ie.
3 procedures of 500 grafts each).
At
twenty (20) weeks after my surgery I visited Dr Woods at his
beach-house clinic during which a series of “after” photos
were taken of me in the presence of his New York attorney. Dr
Woods asked me if he could use my “before” and “after”
photos, and history, and present them to Farrell Mane. I agreed in
good faith as it was my understanding that Farrell would use these
photos in an honest and true context – that is:
1. I
was a NW 7
2. The “after” photos were taken at only approx. 20 weeks
following my surgery
3. The total number of grafts was only 1500
It
is my understanding that Farrell was made totally aware of these
facts.
I
have recently seen my 20-week “after” photo on Farrel Mane's
website and feel greatly dismayed, angered and disgusted at the
way in which it was presented. The “before” photo and the
above context was not presented and the way in which comment was
invited and negative feedback not discouraged, I feel has left me
exposed to open ridicule by the global public. The photo presented
on Farrel Mane's website also shows enough of my upper face to
enable recognition by the people who know me. Because I've been
ridiculed I feel I have no option but to show my full face in true
context.
Farrell’s
claim in a thread associated with this 20-week “after” photo
that it was taken at one (1) year following surgery is not the
case as I understand that he was informed by Dr Woods that it was
in fact taken at only 20 weeks following my surgery.
I
presented these photos to Farrel Mane via Dr Woods (as I do again
with these latest ones) in the above context with the expressed
aim and intention of helping others in a similar situation as
myself.
I
went to Dr Woods as I believed that with my degree of baldness and
lack of adequate donor site I had no other option available to me
apart from shaving or close cutting and as I had tried that I was
ready for a change in image. At first, Dr Woods was reluctant to
accept me as a patient however, I persisted and on my second
visit, he accepted my challenge to give it a go. Dr Woods made it
clear that I was never going to have a full head of thick hair
given my NW 7 condition however; his intention would be to frame
my face and to give me a thin veneer of hair at the front. In this
context the attached “after” photos are therefore a
“work-in-progress” of which I am proud and happy.
Having
seen my 20-week “after” photo and the associated comments on
Farrel Mane's site, I feel that the way in which it was presented
is a severe case of abuse and misuse of trust and privilege and I
am outraged and extremely disappointed that my photo(s) were not
shown in their true context as was the whole point of this
exercise.
It
is my understanding that Farrel Mane was in possession of the
entire facts and the before photos however, chose not to provide
them and thereby allowing further negative comments about me to
continue. If Farrell Mane had made public the entire true facts at
his disposal including my “before” photo there would be no
issue.
I
gave Dr Ray Woods and Dr Angela Campbell my full permission to use
any of my photos and my story in any way that will assist others
in a similar situation as myself.
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