After I had my 2 children I was unhappy with my stomach. I was very new to plastic surgery and had no idea who to choose or how. Somehow I ended up with Kirsch. It was a HORRID experience. His staff talks incessantly about how wonderful he is from the moment you walk in. Pretty much all of the conversation is about Dr. Kirsch. It feels very scripted. The staff tells you how wonderful he is, how gifted he is, how people from all over the world flock to him, then you meet the doctor and he tells you all about himself. He sits too close to you and makes you extremely uncomfortable while he talks about all he thinks he has done. His breath reeks of an open grave while he brags to you of all the famous people he has worked on. Happy just to have somebody to listen him talk about himself he told me how people fly him to Miami to do surgeries for other surgeons (hahaha). At the time I was very young, so I fell under the spell of the doctor's narcissism and didn't even notice his face. In thinking back I wonder about the personal hygiene behind a plastic surgeon who is fat, sloppy, has body odor, a face full of terrible pock marks and long greasy hair. Desperate to get rid of tummy flab though, Kirsch was inexpensive(you get what you pay for). It was an overnight stay. He does surgery from the back of his office and I can tell you that once I was back there, there was a weird smell back there that was NOT antiseptic! He did the surgery that morning and left me in the care of an overnight nurse. It took me a VERY long time to wake up from the surgery, which lets me know that they not only gave me too much anesthesia, but they also gave me way too much morphine. When I finally started to come to, the pain was like nothing I've ever felt before. Excruciating would be an understatement. That nurse never allowed me to completely regain consciousness. It's vitally important after anesthesia to cough and clear the lungs, but each time I slowly came out of my fog, this woman shot me up with HUGE amounts of morphine. I have vague memories of that night in the back of his office. I kept dreaming that someone was screaming. It was me. The surgery was so traumatic that my body was in shock, but that nurse did little to soothe or help me but pump me more and more full of morphine. Early the next morning, Kirsch arrived. He did not check me, he did not ask me how I was doing and he did not show me ONE OUNCE of kindness. It is impossible to hold yourself upright after the surgery. You have to stand bent at a 90 degree angle. It's very painful and very difficult. The nurse told me she was going to give me a big shot of morphine to get me through the pain of him moving me. When she gave me that shot, I passed out cold. In between trying to stay awake and passing out, he came into the room and asked her why I was not up and ready to go yet. He smacked me in the face and told me to wake up. When I could not, he pulled me upright and shook me and said, "You are going home right now!" I still could not wake up so he stuck an ammonia stick up my nose and yelled at me "GODDAMN YOU I SAID WAKE UP!" My BP was so low I could not wake up so he kept sticking ammonia up my nose while he cussed the nurse for not having me ready. He told her, "This bitch is NOT staying here all day long!" He pulled me off of the bed in attempt to get me to stand. I was near unconsciousness and my legs did not work. He could not hold me up and dropped me on my face right on the concrete floor. Even through the morphine I could feel and hear my face hit the floor. I passed out again and woke up to him trying to pull me into a wheelchair...and never once stopped sticking the ammonia up my nose saying "Bitch wake up you are leaving." When he finally got me into the wheelchair, he shoved me to their secret exit door and left me there for that nurse and my BF to try and get me into the car. He couldn't have cared less about me. It was the worst experience of my life and I still have traumatic nightmares about what this man did to me. I despise you Dr. Kirsch for what you did to me and I hope EVERYBODY sees this!!!!!! read more
