May 13 2009, 2:36 pm PT | Posted in: Other
You are so full of yourself Rassman! The remedies that you claim to be ineffective, do indeed work and you know it. Additionally, don’t use the “consult your doctor” line as a means of beating around the bush, thereby coercing oblivious morons to actually use your transplant services. If you really were a TRUE M.D., you would most likely state the facts, and not market your own products. You look like a damned politician anyway. Yours Truly
Since when did I have my own products? The only thing I sell with my name on it is the Hair Loss and Replacement for Dummies book…
Many of the thousands of return readers want to know what I think about things, but I limit my published thoughts to probing what I feel are my educational responsibilities to my readership. We spend hours and hours each and every day filtering hundreds of emails and researching answers to some questions that have twists and turns in them. Not every email I receive can be answered perfectly. Also, I’m not your physician (or the physician of anyone that writes in), so I’m often on the horns of a dilemma which puts the challenge to me as to what I can or can’t say (legal liability / medical reasons). Bottom line though, if you don’t like what I have to write… please, by all means stop visiting the site.
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These are very serious accusations. Although I don’t know Dr. Rassman personally, I believe he’s one of the few doctors in this specialization that are mature and responsible, and take their profession seriously initially as a doctor, secondarily as an business man. By most doctors it’s the other way around.
Although I can’t say the negative emails are my favorite to receive, I realize that I can’t please everyone and I have to take the good with the bad. In cases like this though, I don’t mind calling someone out when they’re completely off base and just write in to either vent or say something foolish.
Are you seriously questioning a Dr with as many years of specialist experience and thousands of cases relating to hair loss as Dr Rassman?
I believe that Dr Rassman’s product and treatment advice is sound and unbiased, based on his plethora of experience and clinical evidence supporting specific treatments.
If you want to leave negative comments go to the hair transplant network.
I think Dr. Rassman is doing a terrific job educating the general public.
This blog is aimed at the public, not patients and that is a key distinction. Of course he has to be careful what he advocates, because someone crazy out there will regard it all as clinical advice and get litigious if something goes wrong. This means that his discussion on this blog is likely more toned down that what you’d get if you saw him in person.
Nevertheless, I’d rather have Dr. Rassman educate the public albeit protecting himself by indicating that this is not clinical advice than not blogging/educating at all.
Balding is sadly a taboo topic. Men feel ashamed to ask for advice for fear of being labelled as overly vain. I have to assume the readership of this blog is sky high. This blog offers readers anonymous advice that previously has been unavailable. Keep up the good work.
Dr Rassman answered a question for me knowing well that I’m posting from India. I suppose he would know that it’s unlikely, because of the expenses involved, that I’d travel to the US to use his hair transplant services. Yet, consulting my physician was exactly what he suggested in response to the query I posed.
And if he should indirectly market his services by the simple device of attracting visitors to his blog where their questions are answered, well, why not? Hair loss is a cosmetic issue, so I don’t see why he should be charitable about his time.