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ملحوظة لجميع القراء الناطقين باللغة العربية: تحتوي هذه المدونة على محتوى حساس ومعلومات حول المضاعفات الطبية الخطيرة الناجمة عن جراحة الوجه التجميلية التي يجريها الدكتور سمير غرابة. بما أن الدكتور سمير غرابة يعمل في مصر والإمارات العربية المتحدة (دبي) ودول أخرى في الشرق الأوسط، فمن المهم للغاية أن تقرأ منشور المدونة هذا وتفكر في اختيار جراح التجميل الخاص بك. اجعل هذا المنشور بمثابة تذكير جيد بجميع المخاطر المحتملة المرتبطة بالإجراءات التجميلية وأهمية اختيار جراح تجميل مؤهل وذو سمعة طيبة.
Due to the threats that I received from the Dr. Samir Ghoraba when I asked for the fair compensation for everything that I suffered after his Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift, I am warning in advance that any interruption, hacking, blocking and/or disrupting of the Mr.M blog or the Mr.M (mrmbymarkotadic) channels on social media which are used by Marko Tadic and Ruzica Tadic will be the subject of legal actions. The responsible authorities have been already warned and all responsible participants will be prosecuted for media work obstruction.
This post reflects my experience and it represents my view on the work of Dr. Samir Ghoraba and Dr. Mohamed Yassin. We agreed to have collaboration, that was mediated and organized in agreement with Mr. Abdelslam Ghoraba, CEO of the Samir Ghoraba clinic. The text is written after discussion and careful consultation with my legal team and contains professional and non-edited content without intention to humiliate any party involved. Considering the fact that I am in possession of a written evidence which confirms my collaboration with Dr. Samir Ghoraba, I have full legal rights to share my experience with botched Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift, which unfortunately happened to be extremely negative.
My dear readers, I hope you are doing well. Six months passed since my Facelift and Neck Lift operations (19th of September 2023) and I believe that it is the right time to share my experience about surgical facial rejuvenation interventions in Egypt. As I wrote in the previous posts on the blog, the operation in Egypt did not go well and my health was seriously compromised. I don’t want even to mention esthetic and psychological damage that I suffered and still try to stabilize. In this post I will share with you all details of what happened to me. Moreover, I would like to thank all of you for the support and understanding that you showed during last six months of my recovery.
Let’s start from the beginning.
Why Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift in Egypt and Dr. Samir Ghoraba?
People are wondering how I select Dr. Samir Ghoraba to be my plastic surgeon for these facial interventions – Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift. I am 65-old woman and last several years I noticed some changes on my face that I could not improve with creams and anti-age cosmetic treatments. I have been thinking about surgical facial rejuvenation for years, I was searching on Internet for different possibilities, less and more invasive. I made a list of plastic surgeons at whom I would perform surgical facial rejuvenation, among them were surgeons from Turkey, Egypt and the Middle East. After I saw that Dr. Ghoraba was on training at Dr. Suleyman Tas Clinic, whom I heard is a great expert, I decided to keep to follow the work of Dr. Ghoraba on Instagram. At the end, I asked my son to send him an email and we got the positive response from his brother Mr. Abdelslam Ghoraba and that’s how everything started.
My trip to Egypt and first experience with Dr. Samir Ghoraba
My preparation for this trip started 3 months before the Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift operations which was scheduled on 19th of September 2023. I was very excited thinking how I will have another look in a very short time. I was looking forward to all these changes as I was waiting long and I expected much, perhaps too much. My son Marko and I were very excited and believed in all images that Dr. Ghoraba was posting. I didn’t have some concerns and doubts. This was my largest mistake and I regret it.
The day of our trip finally came and I felt the mixture of happiness and uncertainty, but I wanted to believe that everything will be fine. The same feeling followed me during the whole trip and became even more intensive when we landed in Cairo in early morning hours. The same day, in the late evening I had my first appointment with Dr. Ghoraba in his office.
The first impressions increased my uncertainty, but I ascribed everything to my lack of experience with that part of the world. The assistant of Dr. Ghoraba – Ms. Asmaa Elsakka, asked for money for this intervention immediately when we have finished the consultation at Dr. Ghoraba’s office. I would like to bring attention during the contract of cooperation, Mr. Abdelslam Ghoraba insisted exclusively on cash payment of the costs of surgeries.
During the cash payment process, we requested to receive a printed or online receipt or some confirmation letter that we have paid the costs of the operations, but Ms. Elsakka politely refused and said there was no need for it. After we finished the payment and left the Dr. Samir Ghoraba clinic, half hour later we received the Whats App message from Ms. Elsakka informing us that they cannot accept banknotes that we gave her because they are “old and other color”, even though they were taken from our bank in Serbia just before our trip. I must mention that I paid for the hotel and other expenses from the same series of banknotes and everything was paid normally. This is the main reason, why I suspected a fraud and I contacted my husband and a family lawyer, who warned me about the fraud that prevails in poor countries and advised me to say that I don’t have any more cash with me and find a way to fix the problem. If there really was a problem with the banknotes, Dr. Ghoraba and his team would immediately cancel the operation. Marko and Mr. Abdelslam Ghoraba together with Ms. Elsakka spent long time discussing this and at the end they accepted our banknotes.
Dr. Ghoraba was always surrounded with many people. There was always cameramen and person who was directing his videos, his assistant and his brother. It was very strange to me that he spends more time learning the text that he should say during video than time that he spends listening me. I have never seen this approach, but I wanted to believe and this was crucial. Now I sincerely regret that I didn’t trust my gut to visit the pyramids and return home. The Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift operations was scheduled for the next day without any preparation, laboratory analysis or any other diagnostic testing. I had several operations in my life and I always had to prepare medical documentations before intervention. I am healthy woman and I have regular check-ups that my daughter, who is an experienced doctor, annually organizes and in last several years 2 times per year. She wanted to be sure that I’m ok and I had full check-up only 2 weeks before my trip to Egypt. Everything was fine and therefore I was not particularly concerned why Dr. Ghoraba or his team did not ask for some analysis. However, my daughter was very concerned after my operation and she did not like this approach to the patients. Marko was my support the whole time. He showed me images of all ladies who previously underwent the same procedure and allegedly looked great only a few days after the intervention.
Day of operation has arrived
The day that I was waiting that long finally arrived. I was mentally ready, or at least I thought that I am fully prepared for everything that was waiting for me. The plan was to have intervention, spend one night in the hospital and return to the hotel next day. When I think now about this ambitious plan, I have only a bitter smile on my face and I am wondering how naïve I was at that time.
I came to the hospital, I was admitted and directed to my hospital room. The Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift operation was scheduled for 8 a.m., but Dr. Samir Ghoraba showed up very late around 11:30 a.m. in my room. That morning, I saw his coworker Dr. Mohamed Yassin in my room, just a few minutes before I went to the operation theater. Marko explained him in English what are my expectations and he said that he understood well everything. Dr. Ghoraba was in the operating theater. He used some marker and drew some lines on my face. I must mention that Dr. Ghoraba did not fulfill our agreement to have my son present during the marking of my face for a better explanation in English. The previous evening, I repeated my request via whats app message to his team, who confirmed that they had confimed that he is informed about my request about my Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift operations.
I was already on the operating table and I didn’t see what he drew. I hoped that we agreed last night about changes that I want to make and didn’t suspect anything until the very last moment when I was left alone with his coworker Dr. Mohamed Yassin and anesthesiologist because Dr. Ghoraba left the operating room. I got scared as this was not what I expected, but I was already on the operating table and I hoped that Dr. Ghoraba will come in a few minutes.
Anesthetics were given, I started to count, as anesthesiologist told me, and slowly I fell asleep…
After approximately 10 hours I woke up in my room. Everything was misty, I felt nausea and I vomited three times. There was no strong pain, but I felt strong suffocation, as somebody is strongly strangling me. Nurses assured me that this is normal reaction after Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift, but this feeling was very strong and remained for days. It was horrible. I was frightened. Dr. Mohamed Yassin with the nurse and his assitant came several hours after operation to check me and told that this was normal post-operative course and that everything be fine in a few days. I tried to smile at his encouragements and they took a lot photos of me, commenting in Arabic. My son asked if everything was okay, Dr. Yassin stated that this is all part of the recovery process and that we should not worry.
Recovery in Egypt
The initial plan was to stay overnight and to be discharged from the hospital next day after Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift. The next day arrived, but I could not feel well to sit in bed and not to return to our hotel. Nurses and Marko straightened me up, but this was very difficult for me. I couldn’t walk alone and there was no way I could go back to the hotel and receive medications there. We decided that I will stay additional 3 days in the hospital that we paid immediately in cash.
I could speak about Egyptian private healthcare system for days and attitude of their healthcare workers and particularly nurses for days. However, I will not do that. I can only say that I would never recommend them to anyone.
Dr. Yassin was trying to force me to go to the doctor’s office (located on the other part of the city) that evening to have Dr. Samir examine me and remove the drains, since this cannot be done at the hospital where I was operated on. I said that I did not have the strength to move and ask him to call Dr. Ghoraba to examine me and demanded that he remove the drains at the hospital where I was at that moment. He invited Dr. Ghoraba and he was also very unpleasant and said he would show up tomorrow “when he has time” regardless of my pleas and complaints about feeling bad.
I felt slightly better after taking pain killers, but still far away from all these women who presented on Dr. Ghoraba’s Instagram profile as perfectly fit 2 days after Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift operations. I was wondering what’s wrong with me, but everybody was assuring me that everything was normal for these kind of operations.
Dr. Ghoraba came to visit me on the third day after Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift. He came only to take video and pictures with me and post it on social medias. As he did previously, he came with his team, focused on the content for social medias, assured me that everything was fine and left. In the meantime, I saw once more his coworker Dr. Mohamed Yassin, who examined me and told that everything is fine and expected. None of them told me that something went wrong, that I had large hematoma along the length of the incision, particularly in front of and behind both ears. I asked many times, but they told me that is normal.
Four days after operation I was discharged. I have already written that plan was to stay at the hospital only 1 night, but I could not imagine myself in the hotel room because I didn’t have strength to walk along the corridors in the hospital.
Dr. Ghoraba saw me again after 7 days of Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift and prescribed me some cream for my bruises, as he called my hematomas. He was assuring me that my recovery is longer due to my age, but that everything will be fine. These “bruises” soon became black ugly crusts. However, Dr. Ghoraba told me that this is the part of healing and that I will have normal skin below, particularly if I use cream that he prescribed me.
During next two weeks that I stayed in Cairo, Marko gave his best to help me and recover me. He was continuously encouraging me, saying that everything will be fine, helping me to walk around within the hotel. He was taking care about my therapy, organizing our visits to the doctor’s office. Don’t forget that we are in Cairo and not in Europe. Their way of life and communication, traffic, rules, working hours, food are very different from everything that we know. One thing is when we visit Cairo and Egypt as tourist and quite different when you are patient there and need to rely on their facilities. I did not think about these issues before.
I felt somewhat better, but far from normal. I was taking antibiotics and other therapy. My daughter insisted on this, particularly antibiotics. Honestly, I didn’t want to show her my crusts and every time when we had video calls, I was holding telephone in front of me and try not to turn on the side. I didn’t want to make her worry and subconsciously didn’t want to admit myself that something bad is going to happen to me. Because of my children, I wanted to believe that everything will be fine. At this point, I just wanted to go home and thought that I will instantly feel better when I arrive to Belgrade. At that time, I could not even imagine that this was only the beginning of my worst nightmare…
Last time I saw Dr. Ghoraba one day before I returned to Belgrade. He removed my sutures almost 15 days after Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift. It was very painful and I am known as somebody with very high threshold for pain. I asked for the hundredth time Dr. Ghoraba what will happen with my face and I heard the same story as always that everything will return to normal state in a few weeks. My whole face was swollen, I had ugly black crusts in front and behind both ears (I didn’t know that this calls skin necrosis) and I had difficulties to move lips (I thought that this is due to facial swelling).
After removing the sutures, Dr. Samir Ghoraba did a CO2 fractional laser to remove facial wrinkles. During the laser treatment, I felt an unusual smell, which I thought was normal, but after a few minutes I realized that Dr. Ghoraba burned both my eyebrows. He left the office and went to examine other patients and I got up to look in the mirror and noticed that both of my eyebrows were totally burned, which I complained to Dr. Yassin, he was troubled by my concern and said everything would be fine. After that, Dr. Ghoraba gave me his written discharge letter and confirmation that I am allowed to travel back home.
The next day we should return to Belgrade and I thought that everything will be perfectly fine from the moment when I land to the Belgrade airport.
Return to Belgrade
The return day has finally arrived and I instantly felt adrenalin rush which helped me to overcome my physical weakness that has not left me since the day of the Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift operations. Our trip to the airport, passing through the airport and the flight from Cairo to Belgrade were the real adventure that drained the last atom of energy out of me. I was very weak even 17 days after the operation that this trip to Belgrade was like some triathlon for me.
I came to Belgrade and my daughter was waiting for me. She came to Belgrade only to see me after the operation and she did not know anything about my fears. When she saw me, I instinctively knew that something was wrong. She tried to act normally and not to frighten me. After everything finished, she told me that she instantly saw skin necrosis and sent photos of me to her colleagues surgeons who confirmed her suspicion. She explained everything to Marko and organized to do necessary analyses and to see surgeon as soon as possible.
I felt better when I finally came home, but my weakness was the same. My expected miracle did not happen and I was very sad, frustrated, disappointed, discouraged, angry and hopeless. Next day medical examinations in Belgrade began…
All Complications revealed (skin necrosis, facial palsy and neck cyst)
When I came to the Emergency Center after seeing the first surgeon, I realized that all my fears that I felt in Egypt had unfortunately come true. My children tried their best to encourage me, the surgeons talk to my daughter while I look at my son and try to find comfort, but in his eyes I see only fear. That’s when my fight for life began and I was no longer a Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift surgeries patient, but a survivor with severe complications who was on the edge sepsis.
The plastic surgeons called a meeting where my son showed all the pictures from the first day of the Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift operations to the moment of our arrival in Serbia. Plastic surgeons with a lot of experience were shocked that I managed to get home at all and that they could even see me in front of them in this condition. They started doing numerous tests on me, the blood tests were not good at all and the results showed a serious infection and my daughter was desperate and angry, she also called her infectious disease colleagues who continued with the tests and advised to do a CT of my head and neck immediately to determine the degree of necrosis to see how deeply it has affected the tissue.
My son and I in consultation with the legal team, sent an email to Dr. Samir Ghoraba where he was informed about my health condition and pointed out his numerous mistakes, as well as the medical omissions he made during my Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift operations and due to poor post-operative care, that he could have prevented the necrosis using numerous medical methods and that all this could have been differently. I asked for compensation and reimbursement of all travel expenses.
Dr. Ghoraba admitted in an email his medical mistake and medical negligence and offered me a shamefully low compensation of 10,000 euros with his request that I sign an NDA agreement (Non-Disclosure Agreement), and never write a negative review of his work.
Correspondence with Dr. Ghoraba after admitting his guilt for his bad skilled work of his Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift continued and he behaved as if we were in the market, not that he had committed serious medical negligence. He used metaphors “you act like we hit you with a car” and other unpleasant sentences that emphasize his character and unprofessionalism. I informed him that in case he does not compensate me, I will make public my personal experience, to which he followed me by threats shutting down our channels of social networks, as well as other channels of communication like blog. I was fair and waited… It’s been 6 months…
My health condition deteriorated significantly and a cyst appeared on my neck. I was worried and felt severe pain and pressure in my neck. With the help of my daughter’s colleagues, I managed to get in touch with one of the best plastic surgeons in Serbia, who accepted my case and agreed with his team to take care of me. Daily punctures of liquid from the neck began, the amounts varied from 10 to 40 mm, sometimes punctures (removal of liquid) were done twice a day. I went into a state of sepsis and started receiving intravenous antibiotics.
The punctures went on for weeks and one evening I felt that my bandage and the pillow under me were so wet and out of fear I had a panic attack and started screaming. The nurse came and started to calm me down, then my children and the surgeon came, who calmed me down by insisting that it was a small discharge from the cyst, which was the only way to calm me down at the moment because the cyst had burst. I suspected that something more serious had happened, but I tried to calm down, regardless of the fear of death, I would be at peace because at least I came home and was with my children.
My daughter told me the truth later, because they didn’t want to aggravate my mental state which was seriously damaged by everything that happened to me. My son regularly took pictures of Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift work done, but I didn’t have the courage to look at them. The psychologist’s advice was not to show me the pictures. I gathered my strength and we all together looked at my pictures together in December 2023, when I saw with my own eyes for the very first time what happened to me.
UK Medical Title Misusage of Dr. Samir Ghoraba
Upon my return home, my attorney and my family conducted a thorough investigation of the work and medical titles of Dr. Samir Ghoraba. The first step was to check the medical title used by Dr. Ghoraba on his social media profiles: “UK Board Certified Consultant”. We contacted all medical facilities in the UK and received numerous responses which showed that Dr. Samir Ghoraba abuses UK medical degrees and titles. I will quote the response of a leading institution:
“Please do not be dazzled by board certified surgeons, “Board Certified” is a North American term that does not exist in UK and is deliberately used to try to attract patients under false pretense.”
Reposted from NHS official website:
“Doctors who hold registration but not a licence may be working as an academic or outside the UK. They cannot undertake any of the activities – clinical work – for which UK law requires them to hold a licence to practise.“
Dr. Samir Ghoraba was on some sort of training in the UK, he could not legally be a visiting doctor and perform any kind of operations (Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift or others) on patients in the UK without a medical license to practise. He can only perform his academic activity, which must not include work on patients. Just to be clear, Dr. Samir Ghoraba does not have a UK medical license.
He misleads patients about his work on his website. He was also expelled from the Royal Academy of Plastic Surgeons for non-payment of dues, and uses an MRCS (Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons) medical title that does not belong to him.
After I contacted medical institutions in the UK and received answers, Dr. Ghoraba has changed the information on his main IG profile – @samirghoraba, the Bio section and the medical title is no longer “UK Board Certified Consultant” it has been changed to “UK GMC Registered”. He has „registered without licence to practise medicine in UK“. Top plastic surgeons are licenced by the UK and US Medical Boards and this signifies their expertise and quality of work. I believe that I am deceived because Dr. Ghoraba falsely used the title and misled me into believing that he is an excellent surgeon who is licensed in a country like the UK because of his knowledge.
Summary
Acts committed:
- Serious medical negligence and medical mistakes during and after Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift (responsible persons: Dr. Samir Ghoraba and Dr. Mohamed Yassin)
- Deliberately hiding information about the patient’s health and endangering the patient’s health condition after Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift surgeries (responsible persons: Dr. Samir Ghoraba, Dr. Mohamed Yassin and other staff of Dr. Samir Ghoraba’s Clinic)
- Tax evasion (money for operation costs was requested to be paid in cash, even mentioned in advance in emails during the cooperation agreement, no printed or online receipt was issued for performing services at Dr. Samir Ghoraba’s clinic. (responsible persons: Mr. Abdelslam Ghoraba and Ms. Asmaa ElSakka)
- An attempt to double charge the operation costs (with the excuse that my USD banknotes are old and other color, the hotel was paid with them in an amount higher than the operation costs and the payment was made normally, which indicates an attempt to defraud Dr. Samir Ghoraba’s team consisting of Mr. Abdelslam Ghoraba and Ms .Asmaa ElSakka.
- Misuse of medical title: UK Board Certified Consultant. Dr. Ghoraba does not have a medical license to practice in the UK, he has applied for registration on the General Medical Council (GMC) register but is not licensed to practice medicine as a general practitioner or specialist in UK. I have a document on which it is written that Dr. Samir Ghoraba is not allowed to work with patients in the UK, so his stories on his website that he has performed delicate operations at the Birmingham Clinic as a visting doctor are misleading patients.
- Image editing and manipulation of the final results of cosmetic operations. Dr. Ghoraba and his team significantly edit the images and thereby mislead patients about the results of cosmetic surgeries. That was done in my case as well.
Participants in this acts:
- Dr. Samir Ghoraba – the surgeon who performed Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift interventions with forehead tightening and fat transfer in the lower and upper eyelids.
- Dr. Mohamed Yassin – Junior surgeon, assistant Dr. Ghoraba who participated in the performance of my Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift operations and who examined me after the operation and supervised my recovery with Dr. Samir Ghoraba
- Mr. Abdelslam Ghoraba, introduces himself as the CEO of Dr. Clinic. Samir Ghoraba and with him I agreed about the terms of our cooperation, the price of the operation and the way of promoting the clinic Dr. Samir Ghoraba. He was responsible for the financial agreement and terms and conditions of our cooperation and promotion of the work of Dr. Samir Ghoraba.
- Ms. Asmaa ElSakka – one of the numerous assistants of Dr. Samir Ghoraba and is in charge of collecting money in cash and regulating payments before the surgery itself.
My recovery after Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift is still ongoing, I am left with serious scars and half of my face is paralyzed, I am taking different types of medicine to be able to move my head without pain. I do not have any condition or co-morbidity that would cause this type of complication and it is very easy to prove, as I am not a smoker and I do not have diabetes, hypertension or any other chronic condition or medical treatment.
In consultation with my medical team managing my case, we came to the conclusion that it is necessary to do revision cosmetic surgeries after some time: Deep Plane Facelift, Neck Lift, forehead lift, blepharoplasty, as well as new fat transfer, because the fat transfer done by Dr. Ghoraba and Dr. Yassin, the fat did not get accepted on my face, which is often the case with unprofessional doctors. The results of the cosmetic surgery performed by Dr. Ghoraba not good at all, the skin of the face and double chin is in bad condition. The skin of half of the face is sagging, as well as the skin of the double chin because liposuction of the double chin and neck lift were done in a wrong way. Since I am still recovering, my medical team is not sure when it is a good moment to have revision cosmetic surgery done again. I don’t know how familiar you are, but all revision cosmetic surgeries cost significantly more than when it is done for the first time and there are a small number of plastic surgeons who are willing to operate on such patients.
Dr. Samir Ghoraba has fake positive reviews in Google written by him and his team from fake profiles after I left a true negative review with evidence of his horrible work he did to me.
Dr. Samir Ghoraba operates on patients in the territory of Arab Republic of Egypt – Opal Aesthetics in New Cairo and UAE (First Medical Center in Abu Dhabi). He also visits Middle Eastern countries, so pay attention and think carefully if you decide to have surgery with him. You make that decision at your own risk.
I just want to share my personal experience and Dr. Ghoraba is already informed about my case, he admitted his mistake and offered me shameful compensation which is not covering my surgery in Egypt, recovery expenses and all revision surgeries and he blocked me on social media, also he is deleting my review on Google review.
I want to mention that in the meantime I got in touch with a couple of former patients of Dr. Samir Ghoraba who had unsuccessful operations, bad experiences. Dr. Ghoraba did not offer revision operations to them or pay compensation, for the sake of all of us I decided to share my experience.
UPDATE April 2024: Buying fake positive Google Reviews
After the publication of this post on March 19, 2024, the growth of positive 5* reviews on the Google Business account of the clinic Dr. Samir Ghoraba. I assumed that the reviews were bought, but I had no proof. A few days ago I received several emails from people that they received messages on the Whatsapp application to write positive Google reviews for the work of Dr. Samir Ghoraba and that they will be paid depending on the number of reviews they write. In the picture below you can see the price list and the link to the Google Business account of Dr. Samir Ghoraba. This explains the sudden magical growth of reviews from 150 reviews and an average rating of 4.1 to almost 1500 positive reviews that make no sense and thus Dr. Ghoraba raised his average rating to 4.9.
UPDATE May – June 2025: What They Don’t Show on Instagram: The Dark Side of Dr. Samir Ghoraba’s Practice
In the months following my own disastrous experience with Dr. Samir Ghoraba, I discovered that I was far from alone. Numerous other patients have shared harrowing accounts that echo the same themes: exploitation, arrogance, and a shocking lack of professional ethics.
One reviewer, Lulu Esaam, describes her visit as a “first-class scam,” revealing how prices were inflated based on nationality, with no regard for medical standards. Despite being young and requesting a simple procedure, she was quoted $8,000 – only to have that price increase via WhatsApp negotiations. The clinic’s refusal to accept payment at official exchange rates, demanding dollars or black-market conversions, further underscores the financial exploitation many patients report.
Another patient, Nehad Gama Eldin, wrote a heartbreaking letter to Dr. Samir after her facelift surgery left her face drooping just five months later. Beyond the botched results, she describes how the doctor filmed her without consent while she was under anesthesia, using her image for promotional content. Her experience also includes serious post-surgery complications – salivary gland issues, ear pain, and neck sagging, that Dr. Samir failed to address or even acknowledge.
Additional reviews describe hours-long waits, an emphasis on appearances over patient care, and a general atmosphere of neglect. One person even noted the absurdity of a bodyguard stationed in the waiting area, a symbol of ego more than professionalism.
Collectively, these stories reveal a troubling pattern: a doctor who appears more invested in fame and wealth than in ethical medical practice or patient outcomes. The façade of glamour surrounding Dr. Samir’s brand masks a deeper crisis of integrity and patients are paying the ultimate price for it.
It’s not just patients sounding the alarm – those who’ve worked inside Dr. Samir Ghoraba’s clinic are also beginning to speak up. One such voice is Menna Mohamed, a former staff member who left a blunt and revealing review: “One of the worst clinics I have ever worked with. They treat people badly and are arrogant, and the results are not good.”
This short but powerful statement carries significant weight. When a former employee openly criticizes their workplace, it points to deeper, systemic issues beyond isolated incidents. Menna’s account confirms what so many patients have echoed—arrogance, poor treatment, and unsatisfactory surgical outcomes are not occasional slip-ups but rather ingrained patterns within the clinic’s culture.
Her words suggest a toxic environment not only for patients but also for staff, raising serious questions about how internal operations are managed and whether professional standards are maintained behind the scenes. If even employees felt mistreated and disillusioned, it casts further doubt on the clinic’s integrity, ethics, and leadership.
In a field where trust and care are everything, Menna’s experience offers a troubling glimpse into the clinic’s inner workings—underscoring that the problem is not just surface-deep, but built into the foundation.
In addition to showing my personal experience in this blog post, I want to express my sincere concern about the surgical skills and knowledge of Dr. Samir Ghoraba and his fellowship and clinical instructorships in plastic surgery and cosmetic medicine. If he behaves like the surgeon who operated on me, then I am really worried about what kind of knowledge and skills he can pass on to residents or specialists in Plastic surgery, ENT or Dermatology, Maxillofacial medical fields.
I am seeking compensation and I would not allow Dr. Ghoraba to operate on me ever again and I will not give up until I get the fair compensation I deserve.
Unfortunately, this is my story, but let’s do our best to raise awareness together for such events to not happen again, because today I was a victim of the ignorance of a cosmetic surgeon, and tomorrow it could be someone from your environment. If you find my story educational, feel free to share, so we can prevent unprofessional surgeons from destruction of someone’s health and appearance.
I reserve the right to edit this post with new updated information from time to time.
Best,
Ružica Tadic
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This blog post contains personal medical experience of failed Deep Plane Facelift and Neck Lift surgical facial rejuvenation that is contracted in advance. Both parties made an agreement for which there is a written record. This post is informative and contains sensitive content that the author of the post indicated at the very beginning. Most of the published content belongs to the authors of the blog Mr.M & Mrs. Mom – Marko Tadic and Ruzica Tadic with the use of publicly available content on the Internet that is available to everyone. This post is written for the purpose of informing and educating the general public about the potential risks that may arise as a result of plastic surgery. This post may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. In accordance with my informational, educational mission, on which I wanted to make available material for understanding the risks that may arise as a result of cosmetic surgery, as well as efforts to raise awareness of medical negligence that occurred during the contracted cooperation. I, Ruzica Tadic and other members of the Mr.M team are not responsible for the content of comments that will be posted in response to my personal experience, we are exempt from legal liability. Every individual has the right to express personal opinion and draw own conclusion. This is beyond our control and we bear no legal responsibility for the content of comments.
I did not expect your story today about the failed plastic surgery in Egypt. I really did not believe that a surgeon could ruin someone like this! Wait, he thought for 10,000 euros to buy your silence?! This is pure medical malpractice, kudos! I have shared this text with all my friends.
This is outrageous! I’m in shock, this is a really heartbreaking story and I’m so sorry for what you’ve been through. I can’t believe there are people running away from responsibility! Each of us can make a mistake, but everyone has to pay for their mistakes! I have sent your text to my journalist friends in the UK, this medical title abuse will be a very interesting topic!
I was going to cook lunch for today, but I got an email and I just wanted to quickly look at the pictures… I sat down in shock and read your whole story! I was married to a Tunisian and they just like to threaten to people and run away. We were married for 6 years and I still can’t understand how I could live with him. I’m really sorry for what you’ve been through, this si a real hell!
There are so many criminal activities here and you have written everything well. I’m a lawyer in the Netherlands and I’m really proud of the colleagues who helped you write this post. Everything is explained in detail and expertly without any bad words and pictures prove your experience, as well as documents. The admission of guilt of the doctor is the most important here, in the Netherlands and in Europe you can expect compensation of 2-4 million euros for such a case, sometimes even more. There is also tax evasion and financial fraud due to double billing of surgery costs, medical negligence, editing of images and the most important concealment of the real condition of the patient, and on top of all that, the surgeon issues a discharge letter that you are healthy… That is the height of insolence!
Dear Rose, Thank you for taking the time to write such a difficult story, this is horror. Dr. Samir Ghoraba had no shame in offering $10,000 for this kind of damage???? Regardless of whether this was a paid collaboration, whether you received the operation for free or paid as you mentioned, damages must be paid. You could have kept quiet about something like this for $100.000 -$200.000 so you could get treatment and sign an NDA… That doctor ruined you and he needs to pay for it. His medical license should be revoked for this and he should not approach any patient! I wish I had words of comfort, but I am truly speechless…
This is terrible experience, the surgeon admitted his mistakes, offered so little money and then threatened you that if you publish the story, your blog and social media channels will be shut down… For me, the highlight is the google review of his patient who thanks him for the intervention that he did not at all as a plastic surgeon can do! Great that you found out the truth about his fraudulent use of UK medical titles. I have sent everyone I know who goes to the surgeon to let them know what the risks are. You are a very brave and strong woman, I really admire you after everything you had experienced!
Oh dear God, what symbolism, you published the story of your horrific experience exactly on the day that 6 months had passed since the operation! You are one wonderful woman, I send you my full support. I showed my husband the pictures, as he is a maxillofacial surgeon and he simply cannot believe that a plastic surgeon could do such a thing. I hope you are recovering well and I hope you are able to get your compensation.
This is really unbelievable! Dear Mrs. Ruzica, I sincerely hope that you have managed to recover at least a little. Your post has been shared today in a couple of medical groups in Europe and the UK, all colleagues are really shocked by your case. It’s just incredible if you’re not a smoker that these complications can happen to you. To tell you honestly, this is the incompetence of the surgeon who operated on you. These are extremely difficult complications and you are a very rare case, but unfortunately this is the mistake of the surgeon from Egypt. I wish you a speedy recovery.
This is a very sad story, but the biggest tragedy of Dr. Ghoraba for finding such people who don’t even know how to lie for him! Imagine lying so much that someone thanks you for an intervention which is only performed by an interventional cardiologist, not a plastic surgeon. This is terrible, you should really be proud to be alive at all to tell us your story after this nightmare experience.
These two surgeons should be behind bars for all the crimes they committed, and the other two, his brother and assistant for financial evasion and other financial crimes. Who knows how much money they earned from the Arabs over the years, and they didn’t report taxes.
I am a doctor from Iran and I moved to work in the UK. Your doctor is impersonating himself and this is clearly evident from the GMC’s public register of medical professionals. I believe you were excited before the surgery to verify the veracity of your surgeon’s medical titles. It’s not that he can’t approach patients in the UK, but as an Egyptian, he can hardly do any academic work in the UK. I sympathize with you and wish you, above all, peace and recovery. I sincerely hope you get a large amount of compensation because this is truly gross medical negligence and as a doctor myself I cannot explain this amount of insolence from one of my colleagues. I have shared your story with my colleagues and they are all appalled, and we are doctors by profession.
I read your story for 45 minutes, every detail and fear got under my skin. I am 62 years old and I was thinking of doing a Facelift and Necklift, but after your experience, I will hardly decide on these surgical interventions because I can’t believe what the doctors are ready for. They should treat us and watch out for their mistakes, not threaten patients and block them on social networks. I have been following your fashion stories and your son’s travelogues for years and you always make me happy with positive and beautiful things, but this is really sad and tragic. This should be forwarded to the Egyptian Prosecutor’s Office and condemned in the strongest possible terms. There are so many criminal acts in your case that I just can’t believe it. I wish you a speedy recovery and don’t forget us as your readers. Thank you for sharing the truth with us as you promised
I followed your fashion stories and notes that all the pictures are specially edited to fulfill your obligations to your blog friends and your readers, but I really couldn’t imagine such a hell even in my worst nightmares. That surgeon Ghoraba has something to threaten someone with? I’ve been a lawyer for 20 years and I’ve never seen such a well-written text without a single insult, you really did a fantastic job. Every detail and every explanation and legal clarification. There is not a single violation of honor or personal insult here. This surgeon can only “kindly” ask you to delete the post since most of the evidence has been presented, most importantly his confession. I hope you can get a good compensation. Such serious injuries are paid over 2 million euros minimum. I had a client who received a minor injury from a plastic surgeon and she received almost 1.5 million euros. You’ve been through a lot worse. I wish you all the best and hope you make a successful recovery.
I have to say that I am sorry from the bottom of my heart that this happened to you. You’ve always been positive and inspiring, I sincerely hope this doesn’t stop you from continuing your fashion stories. I shared your story on several FB groups and people can’t believe it. I sincerely hope that everything will be ok! I know it doesn’t mean much to you right now, but you have my full support.
This is something that should not happen in plastic surgery, if the surgeons were responsible they would immediately return you to the operating room to remove the hematoma and then the necrosis of the facial tissue would not occur. The second saddest thing is those fake medical titles and fake Google reviews that make patients doubt the work of doctors of any specialty. What happened to you is a complete disaster and it’s really commendable and fascinating that you were able to capture all of this and have an excellent legal team. As a doctor I am reading this text and if someone wrote about me like this after all this, I would have no reason to sue the patient at all… I believe that you will receive good compensation for physical and mental pain, as well as all other expenses you have incurred.
I must commend your mental willingness to share such a great trauma with the people who read your blog. This unfortunate turn of events must have left a mark on your general and mental health. I haven’t seen your blog until now, a friend of mine sent me a link to your post and I felt the need to reach out and offer some words of support. I believe things will be good in the end!
I read your article and forced myself to look up the work of your chosen surgeon and saw his Google Review, I’ll just say a word of caution to anyone who bypasses his clinic. The man talks about himself in the third-person self-talk, convinces others that he’s being sabotaged by the competition, and sending people to see his work on his Instagram profile where it’s clear that he’s blurring patient’s skin and they all look artificial. I have honestly never seen such a serious case of medical negligence in cosmetic surgery.
I can only imagine how you felt when he wrote you an email with the sentence: “you act like we hit you with a car”, dear Dr. Ghoraba this situation is equal to a plane crash, if not a NASA station crash what you have done to this wonderful woman… This man is really unaware of his incompetence , such a surgeon in the UK is immediately disqualified and license revoked for treating patients in this way. A patient to experience this kind of violence by a doctor? This should definitely be sent to as many media outlets as possible and for him to be an example to other surgeons that they are not Gods and that they must respect patients and take care of their health.
As I read the notes and the introduction of the post, I felt chills and some strange fear. While reading the text I felt nauseous and I could just imagine myself in your skin as you described everything in detail. This doctor should not even operate on animals, this is terrible. I can only imagine your feeling of fear and helplessness when you felt the cyst burst, all you thought was to die peacefully with your children. I cried today because of you, I don’t know when was the last time I cried, but because of you, I felt weak and my tears started flowing by themselves.
Dear Ruzica, Thank you for sharing your detailed experience, which you have supported with numerous proofs. I am a plastic surgeon in the US and I have to say that I am shocked by the behavior of my colleague from Egypt. If I had caused such a condition in one of my patients, I would have to treat him for free if the patient accepts my services, or pay him immediately for the whole treatment and also to pay the compensation for physical pain to the patient. Jusr a 10,000$ to keep quiet about a problem like this is really a pitiful sum and really an insult to the patient.
Even if the doctor operated on you for free, for this kind of mistake, if the patient signed an NDA contract, he would have to pay a minimum of 300k – 400k US dollars in order not to go to court, since in court the patient would receive millions of dollars for this kind of medical negligence of the surgeon.
Since you proved that you were his patient, the pictures of your condition speaks a lot about the qualifications of my colleague in Egypt and he still had the courage to threaten the media person who was supposed to help him promote his work, this is truly outrageous.
I always support my colleagues, but in this case I’m on your side because you’ve been through quite a difficult experience. I have been working for over 20 years and I have not seen such advanced necrosis and cyst formation, this is not even in our medical professional books. I hope that some colleague from Europe will do revision surgeries for free and maybe write a case report for our medical scientific journals, I believe that our daughter, who is a colleague, can explain it to you better.
I believe that everything will be fine and I wish you a speedy recovery. Try not to look too much at the scars as this can destroy your mental health.
Liebe Rose, es tut mir so leid, dass dein Facelift nicht erfolgreich war! Vertrauen Sie mir, ich habe Ihre Geschichten auf Instagram verfolgt und mich für Sie gefreut. Ich habe sogar darüber nachgedacht Dr. Ghoraba zu kontaktieren. Ich kann einfach nicht glauben, was mit dir passiert ist und hoffe, dass du dich erholst, dich erneut operieren lässt und alles in Ordnung kriegst. Du hast viel Leid ertragen müssen und glaub mir, dass Gott alles sieht und dass er irgendwann zu den Menschen zurückkehren wird, die dir das angetan haben, und das ist die schlimmste Strafe. Wenn Ihre Chirurgen in Ägypten ehrliche Menschen wären, würden sie Sie für Ihre Schmerzen bezahlen und Sie nicht blockieren! Es ist nicht normal, dass sie glauben, dass der Preis für menschliches Leid 10.000 Euro beträgt. Was also tun mit diesem Geld?! Behandlung und Reparatur kosten das Zehnfache, sie sollten sich schämen. Ganz ehrlich, ich wünsche dir alles Gute und dass du dich mental so schnell wie möglich von allem erholst und uns deine neuen Modegeschichten präsentierst. Jetzt verstehe ich, dass du schon lange nicht mehr auf dem Blog warst und nach deiner Reise nach Ägypten eine Pause eingelegt hast. Mit FG, Leonie
It seems that your story is widely shared among medical professionals, I am currently in residency and have seen various complications. It is simply unbelievable that so many complications can happen to a healthy patient who leads a healthy lifestyle. This all speaks to the inexperience of the person who operated on you. It is obvious that you were in hands of the surgeons who lack adequate knowledge and experience because all of this could have been prevented. As a doctor, I really could not leave the patient, you were on the verge of death. Congrats to your courage and patience for waiting for the medical team in Egypt to think about all the potential risks to their work and pay compensation, but apparently Egypt is a lawless country. Your story is a really good reminder of what complications can happen to a patient if they have an inexperienced and inadequate surgeon.
Das ist eine wirklich traurige Geschichte. Falls jemand nicht weiß, wie die Hölle aussieht: Dies ist eine Live-Show. Es ist eine schreckliche Erfahrung, und außerdem präsentiert sich der Arzt mit gefälschten medizinischen Titeln und bedroht einen berühmten Blogger. Ich kann wirklich nicht glauben, dass dir das passiert ist. Ich bin einfach schockiert!
Dear Mrs. Ruzica, I live in Dubai and I even thought of having surgery at Quttainah Specialized Hospital since they advertised Dr. Samir Ghoraba as an experienced surgeon, I really can’t believe how he behaves. I’m sorry that we share the same religion, this is strongly condemned in Islam to hurt someone… I don’t know how familiar you are with Islam, but when a person dies, the soul will enter Barzakh, a state of waiting, until the Day of Judgment. A soul can go to paradise by living religiously, asking Allah for forgiveness and showing good actions in their life. These good actions will be rewarded on the Last Day. I don’t think these surgeons will go to heaven because of actins they did to you, because in Islam, we believe that our soul will be sent to Hell if we reject the teachings of the Qur’an or take no responsibility for our actions.
Sister Arwa, I also afraid, I read this and I can tell afraid a lot after this experience of sister Ruzika. Dr. Samir Ghoraba also working in Oman on DAR DERMA CLINIC in Muscat. Promotion very well, but after this I not go, absolutely no no
أنا خائفة، هل هذا ممكن؟ إنه يأتي إلى دبي كثيرًا وأرى إعلانات على إنستغرام، أيتها المرأة المسكينة!
أنا أتفق معك! أتمنى أن تجد هذه المرأة المعذبة السلام والسعادة. الله لا يرزقها إلا الأفضل بعد هذه المحنة. شكرا على التنبيه أخت أروى
Dear Rose, I cannot find the right words to express my regret for this extremely unpleasant experience. I am especially sorry that I am also 65 years old and I completely understand your desire and why you did surgical facial rejuvenation. I fantasize about it too, but after your experience, I think I’ll only do anti-aging treatments. I wish you a speedy recovery and I hope that everything will be just fine.
This is a tragedy for every woman who just wanted to be young. I am truly sorry from the bottom of my heart and hope all goes well for you, and as for the doctors I would fear for the patients when they continue to read this experience.
Oh my god, what did I read this. Dear Ruzica, it’s really a miracle that you stayed alive and didn’t die of an infection, life gave you a second chance, but literally! Imagine going for an intervention with the aim of being beautiful and young and you come back as a survivor. These doctors should be put in prison for life and their license to work should be revoked so that they don’t approach patients at all around the world!
Dr. Samir Ghoraba has prices for Egyptian citizens and Saudi citizens and other Middle Eastern countries with special other high prices. He always sends his assistants to take money in cash before the operation and doesn’t pay taxes, it’s good that someone exposed his scams. Besides not paying taxes, he is playing with human health. I met two people who had their noses ruined and were left with big scars. When they complained Dr. Ghoraba he mocked and humiliated them, he also threatened the patients. I hope your story reaches as many people as possible, I will share it for sure!
After your story, I looked at his reviews on Google, today his positive ratings are flourishing, really a wonderful doctor! ;D
This is a pure scam called Dr. Samir Ghoraba. I noticed that he has a practice of closing clinics and changing them when he makes a problem for some patients and they sue him or chase him for compensation. Your story is really sad, but also inspiring for other patients who are even thinking about having surgery with Dr. Ghoraba or his team. Thank you for sharing this and be sure that you helped a lot to other people!
Sister Ruzika, I heard about your story today, I’m really sorry that this happened to you, Dr. Samir Ghoraba and Marwa are bad people, they have harmed so many people, I have shared your story with them and I hope they will come forward. The judiciary in Egypt does nothing and everything is corrupt, but your story can change everything and help us make our voices heard.
Since I work in the health system in the UK, I can confirm that the title “UK board certified Consultant” does not exist in Great Britain and that unfortunately your surgeon is a fraud, as it is written in his medical record in the GMC register. I see that he had a license for 18 days in 2019, so he was probably doing some supervised training then, but his story that he was in Birmingham as visiting doctor is definitely false. You are deluded and he is a serious fraud and I believe that is how he attracts patients in Egypt and Middle Eastern countries precisely because you too have relied on the safety of the UK medical system. I’m sorry that all this happened to you, but I admire your persistence to find the strength to tell your personal experience despite all the problems that befell you. This is a botched facelift and necklift, your general and mental health is really ruined. I hope you reported him to the GMC and you can reach the Advertising Standards Authority in the UK since the surgeon falsely advertised that he is licensed and MRCS.
It’s sad to see what plastic surgeons are doing to patients. I am an ophthalmologist in Denmark and if I did this kind of medical negligence to a patient with all this evidence of brutal medical negligence and concealment of the patient’s true condition with improper treatment I would get a prison sentence of up to 10 years and pay millions in compensation damages. This is really embarrassing and thanks for sharing your story.
This is terrible, I just saw Google Reviews Dr. Samir Ghoraba, he also buys positive Google reviews because I can’t count how many positive reviews he got in the last 24 hours. This man should be reported to numerous institutions. Since my husband is a doctor in Dubai, he advised me to contact the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) and warn about the problematic work of Dr. Ghoraba.
Your doctor definitely has fake Google Reviews and obviously only cares about his appearance because all the pictures are heavily edited in PS. I found the comment of his “patient” that you posted so funny as Dr. Ghoraba seems to be involved in the implantation of stents in his free time as a hobby. A very capable and hardworking man!
Dear Mrs. Ruzica, I need to tell you that your story has reached Egypt as well. I am one of the plastic surgeons here and I can tell you that you have been scammed because you were promised to be operated by Dr. Samir Ghoraba in your invitation letter, and you were possibly operated by Dr. Mohamed Yassin who doesn’t have maybe 2 years of experience at the time you were operated on. Dr. Samir Ghoraba rarely does his surgery, he only takes pictures for social networks, as you said yourself, he is only trying to learn the text to say for making his show for social media. He even does journalism and many other things, but he only has good marketing, nothing else. He is not famous surgeon at all, he is making his own marketing.
هل تتحدث عن سمير غرابة الذي أصبح لديه الآن عيادة أوبال في القاهرة الجديدة؟! إذا كان الأمر كذلك، فيجب على المرأة أن تكون ممتنة لكونها على قيد الحياة على الإطلاق
سمير يمكن أن يسبب النخر بمجرد النظر إلى المريض. هل رأيت إجاباته على مراجعات جوجل حيث قال إن النخر أمر طبيعي تمامًا بعد الجراحة. ليس من الطبيعي حقًا ما فعله بهذه المرأة
كتب أحدهم اليوم أن سمير حصل الليلة الماضية على أقل من 200 تعليق على Google، واليوم لديه أكثر من 300 تعليق. يمكنك أن ترى أن سمير جراح ناجح عندما يقوم بإجراء العمليات الجراحية للعديد من المرضى! إنه يشتري مراجعات Google ويجبر الزملاء والأصدقاء بالتأكيد على كتابة التعليقات. هذه المرأة هربت من الجحيم! إنها محظوظة لأنها على قيد الحياة!
ما 300، هذا قليل! وهناك سمير غرابة يقترب الآن من 400 مراجعة على جوجل. إنه حقًا رجل مجنون، لقد اشترى الكثير من التقييمات! لا بد أنه قد تعرض للأذى القانوني بسبب قصة هذه المرأة، لذلك سيتم القبض عليه بسبب عمله الرائع! هذا الرجل مختل حقًا… هل يعتقد حقًا أن مراجعات جوجل المزيفة ستنقذه؟!
I’m sorry to hear this, but my friend was also operated by Dr. Samir Ghoraba and ruined his nose. He took 3,000 USD in cash before the operation and was left with large scars on his face. I can put you in touch with him, he is a very good person and I am sorry that you and him are victims of Dr. Samir Ghoraba. He regularly deletes Google reviews and writes fake reviews. Your case is much more difficult than my friend’s and I am truly sorry for all that has happened to you. I really admire your ability to extract a written confession of guilty from Dr. Samir Ghoraba, he should have been in jail a long time ago.
This is truly outrageous! I hope this doctor is held criminally accountable with his team. He endangered your health and life with his medical negligence! How is he not ashamed to offer 10,000 euros for such a mistake? Is that man out of his mind? He’s not a doctor, he’s a butcher!
Dear Rose, I could not even imagine that the doctor inflicted such serious and severe injuries on you, I hope you reported the case to the Embassy of Egypt in Serbia! This is a criminal act, since you are a citizen of Serbia, you can contact the Embassy of Egypt in your country and file a criminal complaint. Since the surgeons are Egyptian citizens, you must report them to the Egyptian Embassy and they, as a representative of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will pass it on to other institutions ex officio.
I’ve been following your fashion stories for years and you’ve always been an inspiration to me. You made me cry today and I am truly truly sorry for everything that happened to you! This is absolutely reprehensible! Terrible, what did the surgeons in Egypt do to you?! Are they butchers or surgeons?
After reading your story I wanted to write a negative Google review for Dr. Ghoraba’s, I don’t know if you know, but Dr. Ghoraba bought too many Google reviews. I scrolled for at least 5-10 minutes, there must be over 200 new Google reviews and maybe more in the last 24 hours. He is a serious con man!
After all, I can only say that for Dr. Samir Ghoraba and Dr. Mohamed Yassin only a prison sentence of 15 years minimum the only solution and payment of millions in damages. They tried to kill you with intent as soon as they didn’t treat you and the proof of that is the laser treatment they gave you regardless of the fact that you clearly had visible necrosis on your face.
I’ll just say I’m really glad you made it through! Your story shocked me and today I told all my friends. It’s just unbelievable what a inexperienced and arrogant surgeon can do to you.
I think both surgeons should continue filming their medical reality show in prison after this. They have literally disfigured you!
A doctor with fake medical titles and such express training cannot be a good surgeon. Unfortunately, your case is an indication that the surgeon is inexperienced and has violated numerous acts of medical ethics due to poor PO care and negligent treatment. The doctor uses his brother and other employees for other criminal activities and this is quite normal in countries such as Turkey, Egypt and other countries especially in Middle Eastern countries where there is no special law. I hope you have informed the medical facilities in the UAE as it has become the biggest center for plastic surgery because Dubai is powerful so it attracts various surgeons one of which is yours who gave you this hellish experience.
This is a terrible story, really shocking… Unfortunately, I know a surgeon and we are in the same circles, I can say that he has big complexes. Just take a look at his picture at the Tanta University Department of Plastic Surgery webiste and everything will be clear to you. That man is unprofessional, he got his degree through connections, he was a very bad student and he is still surrounded by such people and hangs out with such people. He is not capable of being accountable for his work, let alone being someone’s mentor. I hear he’s ruined a lot of patients but you’re the first one I’ve seen all the evidence for, his team usually go out of their way to make sure the patients don’t have evidence to prove what he did. The Egyptian judiciary is bribed and he has connections, but your story has reached Egypt and it will be interesting when it hits the local media, that’s why Dr. Samir bought numerous google reviews in the last two days, he is really a big shame to the profession of plastic surgeon.
I’m so sorry for everything you’ve been through, I thought the damage was less, but this is a disaster. How are you feeling today? Are you thinking about who to go to for revision surgery? Have you received any advice on when you should go for surgery again? As for the plastic surgeons in Egypt who operated on you, if the court does not arrive, they will both be judged on the Day of Judgment, members of the Islamic religion know what I am talking about
This is the most difficult and saddest story of yours that I have read on the blog. This is not just a botched facelift and necklift, this is endangering someone’s health and life. The greatest audacity of this madman is that he offered you 10,000 euros for scandalous medical negligence!
I saw your story in numerous Facebook groups and I can say that I was a victim of Dr. Samir Ghoraba, he threatened my health for 8000$, I also paid in cash without receipt and I also went through hell. Dr. Samir Ghoraba sends students to operate on you, you must have noticed that there are always a lot of operated patients and that the whole floor of the hospital is full of his patients, which is impossible if only he operates. Thank you for speaking up for all of us who can’t! Allah will see your suffering and show you the path of happiness. Be safe and healthy dear sister Ruzika
Dear Ruzica, I also had a nose operation in Cairo, Egypt 2 years ago with another Egyptian surgeon and he did the same thing with USD bills. I was just being stupid and naive I gave him new bills and he returned me fake bills and I realized that when I returned to my country. I paid a total of $7,000 for the nose job, since I actually paid $3,500 twice. At least you had a wise husband and a lawyer to help you. Egyptians are terrible people, because they are poor and live hard, they always steal from foreigners. Just a simple example of buying a bottle of water in Cairo, a woman stands in front of me and buys the same water and the man at the counter charges her 7 EGP, I give him 7 EGP, he sees that I am a foreigner and asks for 15 EGP, saying it was a mistake. I left him water at the cash register and went outside. God forbid anyone to go to Egypt, I heard all kinds of unpleasant things that they did to people when they went to visit.
This is creepy! I would not go to Egypt as a tourist to see the pyramids, which are a wonder of the ancient Egyptian civilization, let alone to do a serious operation such as a facelift. My friend went as a tourist, the guide tried to sexually assault her, luckily she defended herself. Egypt is a totally unsafe country. They have no law and you should not go there, they are an uneducated and semi-literate world. You are a brave woman for allowing yourself to be operated on by an Egyptian plastic surgeon, I can see from the picture that he is an unprofessional con artist who loves to take pictures and uses Photoshop on his pictures. I can’t blame you because I have a mom your age and she believes in all kinds of fairy tales.
Just a simple first look at this surgeon and eye contact with this Dr. Samir Ghoraba scares me. This man looks so artificial and evil. I honestly do not believe in the quality of education in third-world countries, especially in Africa. It’s all nice to visit all of them and back home, but to go and have surgery in Africa, be happy you came back alive. Really if you don’t get compensation sell your story for drama – horror Netflix movie I believe you would get millions.
I’m really sorry that this happened to you and I believe that karma and God’s justice exist and I sincerely hope that it will come back to all of them many times over. Karma works according to the principle of life justice, if it does not come back to them personally as the people who caused the accident then it will come back to their family and children. This is terrible what they have done, but believe me, life will give them a worse scenario. You will be fine, you will find a way to fix yourself, but they will not be able to live normally with the crime they have committed.
Dear Rose, I follow your blog and your amazing fashion stories and I followed your fashion stories after the surgery and I thought your pictures were edited a bit, but now I completely understand your pain and suffering. This is a really serious crime of medical negligence and I hope that the team of this clinic together with Dr. Samir Ghoraba that they will be prosecuted for their actions.
This is terrible that happened to you! What is the scariest thing about this story, I noticed in one of your pictures that Dr. Samir Ghoraba had 160 Google reviews, and now he has 463 false positive 5* Google reviews and raised the average score from 4.1 to 4.7, which is a serious violation of Google policy. I reported his Google Business for violating google rights. I hope that you are going to be better soon and I wish you a speedy recovery.
This post should be translated and shown to the mother of Dr. Samir Ghoraba and Mr. Abdelslam Ghoraba to see what kind of children she raised, this is a shame, I think a woman would give them up publicly. These two sons are a shame for a family because they lie, steal and do bad things to other people.
That’s right, I’m a young Egyptian mother and I have 3 sons, if I heard that my son ruined someone like this, I would make him pay, even if I sell the house and everything I have to pay for the damage to this woman so that I don’t get punished by Allah. All these people who were involved in this woman’s accident will be punished by Allah, and that is the worst when you are not aware of his will and strength.
This is such a good comment and so true. If I were the mother of this sinner, I would slap him and beat him until he realized what he did wrong. I would be ashamed if I were his mother, I wouldn’t be allowed to go out on the street because of shame.
I would be sorry if I were the mother of any of these 4 people who participated in this crime. Just imagine this young assistant girl helping them, a woman, participating in such a sin. She steals and takes money from people who come for surgery and supports the Ghoraba brothers in committing crimes, shame on a woman! If I met her on the street I would throw eggs at her!
My God I can’t believe how hard you have worked in the last 6 months, I am really unpleasantly surprised and I must say shocked. Dr. Ghoraba and Dr. Yassin deserves to be held criminally accountable, have his medical license revoked permanently and pay you good compensation and think about whether he should ever do this to another patient again.
Unfortunately, I was the victim of only another cosmetic surgeon during a temporal face lift, after which I got horns on my head. Unfortunately, I agreed to have the same surgeon do a revision, but it turned out even worse. After the revision surgery I had a mild infection that was not like yours and no neck cyst or sepsis, but I still have horns on my head. Your case is really special and I don’t know if I have seen a more difficult case than yours. You really fought for your life after facial plastic surgery, which is unacceptable.
Your case is really incredible and full of criminal acts, I just don’t even know how many grounds you are damaged! You have truly lived through hell and no one can imagine that!
If I hadn’t seen all these pictures, I would have thought it was simply impossible! Congratulation for your strong will and strength to collect all of the evidence and your mental strength to share your experience with surgical facial rejuvenation. You are truly a hero! Your story is great material for an Oscar movie, but seriously, I think anyone over the age of 50 could relate to your story because we all want to see a younger version of ourselves in the mirror at some point.
Dear Rose, I hope you are well now! I follow your work and your fashion stories, don’t give up now! Trust me, your readers must be proud of you for always showing us true experiences and always sharing inspiring fashion stories with us, but this story will raise awareness among women, and I hope men too, who decide to undergo some serious plastic surgery. I can’t wait to read some new fashion story and your fashionable point of view!
As a doctor and as an Egyptian woman, I am appalled by the actions of Dr. Samir Ghoraba and young colleague Dr. Mohamed Yassin. You were lucky to survive and I cannot understand how both of them could violate medical ethics and not help you, if they had already made mistakes. Mistakes happen to everyone, but you have to be human, and as doctors, we have sworn and committed ourselves that regardless of everything, we will always help patients. Unfortunately, Dr. Ghoraba is not a doctor, but aspires to be a medical influencer and a photo model, since that is how he appears on social networks. It may not mean anything to you at this moment, but here as an Egyptian I ask you to forgive us and I hope that Egypt will not remain in your bad memory. This is truly unforgivable, I will share this with the Egyptian Medical Syndicate team to report this case.
Excellent comment! I’m really sorry for everything that happened to his wonderful woman, but Dr. Ghoraba is ruining the entire profession of plastic surgeons and because of people like him, patients will now be afraid to go to real plastic surgeons. In addition to committing so many criminal acts, the latest is buying Google reviews, I see on one of the photos from this post he had 160 reviews 2 days ago, now he has almost 500 fake Google reviews, it’s really a shame what the man is doing. Instead of paying the woman compensation and stopping this situation, he continues to shame our nation and people. You have a good idea of reaching out to Egyptian Medical Syndicate.
This is very shocking and sad to watch, it’s really hard when something like this happens to you, and you only had a dream to look younger. This is very rude of the doctor and you deserve great compensation. Let him give himself 10,000 euros for such serious medical mistakes, shame on him! He’s just an Instagram star. I am a retired journalist and I have sent your story to some redactions, I think this will be interesting for people to find out what can happen to them if they choose the wrong surgeon. I hope you will recover quickly and thank you for your great courage and despite the great mental pain, with a great deal of respect for the people who committed such great criminal acts to you, you turned out to be humane and correct, objective and without bad words. It can be seen that you are a classy, educated and refined woman.
Dear Rose, I’m a big fan of your work and I’m really disappointed with what you’ve been through in the last few months. You are truly an amazing woman and deserve only the best. My husband, who is a lawyer, said that he has never read a better text and that from a legal point of view, you are sure that you will not be liable because you have explained in detail with disclaimers and much more that is necessary using your own content. I can only say well done and that I am very proud of you and that you are my hero. For these other people who have harmed you, I can only say that I believe in God’s justice.
It’s terrible what you’ve been through and you haven’t recovered yet, this is terrible and I hope the surgeons will end up soon in prison. I saw on Instagram that Dr. Samir Ghoraba is currently in Dubai and to operate on people, I really can’t believe it. I have sent your article to all the people I know in Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait since I am working in the real estate industry, so I have a lot of contacts and connections in the Middle East. I trust that you will get your compensation and that some new better surgeon will give you the second youth you have longed for.
According to his negative reviews, I would say that Dr. Ghoraba had a lot of complaints from patients and apparently hides it by buying fake positive Google reviews. Since you are a blogger and have influence, he started buying two days ago new google reviews, it is clear that 2-3 days ago he had 160 reviews, now he has 500 reviews. If he faked his UK medical title, really who knows if the man is actually a plastic surgeon or just being filmed for social media. He took a picture with you and left the operating room and left you with a younger colleague surgeon, as a doctor I would say that he did not come back because it is not a surgeon’s practice but he is next to the patient as he has already prepared for the start of the operation. Unfortunately you have been misled and I hope you will be able to achieve justice.
I am Egyptian and I am ashamed of what one of our people did. Today I just asked a friend of mine, who is a doctor and he told me that Dr. Ghoraba was always hungry for money and for years he has been taking money in cash from patients through his assistants, he worked at a couple of clinics and only quits when he gets into trouble. I’m glad you wrote about your experience with him and I hope someone puts in jail such surgeons as Dr. Samir Ghoraba. I hope you will be better soon.
I am so sorry for what happened to you, regardless of everything you are still an extremely beautiful woman. You have incredible positive energy and are a good soul. I cried in the part of the post where you described the feeling of fear and that you might die when your cyst burst, but you were still happy and peaceful to be in your country with your children. A really special and emotional story, but I hope that justice will come to your door because you really deserve it. You were not seeing a surgeon, but an irresponsible butcher who thought he would buy your silence for a little money he stole from other patients he destroyed as well. Shame on him, I believe that he will soon be punished.
Liebe Rose, ich kann nicht sagen, dass mir dieser Beitrag gefallen hat, weil du mich zum Weinen gebracht hast. Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, wann ich das letzte Mal geweint habe, während ich den Artikel von jemandem gelesen habe. Eine wirklich herzzerreißende Geschichte und ich hoffe, dass Ihre Chirurgen am härtesten bestraft werden und dass Sie ausreichend Geld erhalten, um Ihre Schmerzen zu lindern. Meine Nachbarin in Dortmund hat wegen einer schlimmen Knieoperation fast 400.000 Euro von ihrem Chirurgen bekommen, so dass sie es nie melden würde, weil es schwere Komplikationen verursachte. Dieser Chirurg von Ihnen ist ein Idiot, weil er dachte, dass er für 10.000 Euro Dinge lösen und sich der Verantwortung entziehen könnte. Stellen Sie sich die Unverschämtheit vor, um eine Geheimhaltungsvereinbarung zu bitten. Wissen Sie, Herr Doktor, wie viel es eine berühmte Person kostet, die von ihrem Aussehen lebt, dafür bezahlt zu werden, dass sie schweigt?!
Your surgeon is extremely rude and audacious, why does he keep quiet and does not care for the patient properly, instead of paying 200-300,000 euros to a famous person to keep quiet about such mistakes, he dares to threaten bloggers? Is out of his mind? People say offense is the best defense, but what he did is tantamount to tragedy. It is funny to me how it is written on Google that one of the competitors tries to tarnish his reputation. After all this, I wonder if he really has any medical reputation at all, he has so few scientific papers, 8-10 I forgot the number, and all of them in some unknown journals. Was on very suspicious training without explaining his successes. I can also say that I worked in Switzerland, America and France as Clinic Chief or Chief of the Department, but I have no confirmation for that. Dr. Samir Ghoraba looks to me like a typical scammer from third world countries who lie to patients and use Instagram to attract patients. I am telling you this as a professor and specialist in the US.
Hello sister Ruzika, I am so sorry because one bad doctor from my country did this to you. I hope that you will be good soon. You can report doctor to Egyptian Tax Authority they will do their job. Everyone needs to pay taxes and also Dr. Samir Ghoraba and his clinic.
I am shocked that the doctor thought to buy someone’s silence about such a problem for 10,000 euros, I wonder if he even has a brain. He is either a brave or a crazy person, he probably thought you would give up so he wanted to make sure by intimidating you so you wouldn’t be able to do anything to him. He is really pathetic and should pay for his mistakes.
Unfortunately, apart from being inexperienced and spending more time on social media and writing fake Google reviews, Dr. Samir Ghoraba doesn’t know what else to do. When I googled his name, the man writes stupid articles on the “We will die warriors” blog from Alexandria, presents himself as a journalist and health influencer, and his articles about politics and other things are nowhere near healthy topics. If I were you, I would request that his medical degrees be examined. Since he lied about his UK titles and possible faked his UK degrees as well, it wouldn’t surprise me if his degrees from Egypt were also fake or bought. To cause so many complications one by one simply indicates great inexperience. I would not be surprised if he falsely presents himself as a doctor, but is actually a journalist who “loves” aesthetic and plastic surgery.
Wait, he introduces himself as a PLASTIC SURGERY MEDIA CONSULTANT?! JOURNALIST? Is Samir Ghoraba a doctor or a journalist and an influencer?! Mrs. Ruzica, you need to hand this over to your legal team. This man is definitely a fraud, I also entered this We will die warriors site and Mr. Ghoraba works in journalism, not medicine. This is a disaster!
After reading your story and after reading all the comments, I called all my colleagues from work and we all comment on this case together. This man is definitely involved in illegal business and the question is whether he actually has a medical degree. In addition to everything he did to you, he also threatened you, which only shows the character of a psychopath.
It seems this man is a better journalist and influencer than a plastic surgeon, better to change his profession than to ruin people… Probably he would rather be an influencer, but that way he can’t make as much money as he can from naive foreign patients who come to Egypt , so he doesn’t pay taxes, plus he cheats patients and probably doubles the cost of the operation, as he tried to this woman, who at the end of it all experienced serious trauma due to numerous caused medical complications.
It’s terrible what happened to you, this is really something that a person doesn’t believe and never dares to go to a plastic surgeon. I am annoyed by his arrogance and the way he responds to dissatisfied patients, he simply ignores them. Believe me, put your story in all kinds of media, the whole world needs to know about it, as well as about the complications that patients can experience regardless of whether they are healthy and the right candidates for some plastic surgery.
I am really sorry that all your dreams have failed, it is the biggest disappointment for a person and that you have lived such a difficult experience! This is outrageous, your basic human rights were threatened and your life was threatened. I think you should contact the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, no one has ever seen this many complications and this many criminal acts.
Dr. Samir Ghoraba is more of an influencer than a plastic surgeon. He cares more about editing his pictures and recording content for social media and buys fake Google reviews which is really sad, tragic and comical. Thank you for bringing his work to the people who follow your blog and beyond. One friend of mine sent me the link to your post and I have never seen your blog before. I read one of your fashion stories and I can tell you that you are an extremely strong and emotionally stable woman, that after everything you have found the strength to continue working and to admit that you use Photoshop, because it is really difficult to do your job with wounds like this without photo editing to be done. I believe that it is very difficult for you, but believe me, justice always finds its way.
Dear Mrs. Ruzica, I was busy for a while so I didn’t have time to write my comment on your story. I’m just going to leave this here and say that I’m sorry for everything that happened to you and I hope you get well soon.
I am shocked by these lies that the doctor uses and how he deletes negative true reviews and buys fake positive Google reviews. Plastic surgeons like this should be put in jail.
I can understand if a medical error happens, but he has to correct it in a timely manner or pay compensation for the damage. I hope he will be held criminally responsible for all these acts he has done. I think that Egypt will condemn him the most for financial fraud and tax evasion, since I believe that in Egypt this is what the authorities are most interested in, since their patients are in the last place.
Er ist kein Chirurg, er ist ein Metzger! Ist Nekrose eine normale Komplikation für ihn? Hat dieser Mann überhaupt das College abgeschlossen oder hat er sich einen Abschluss gekauft? Möglicherweise hat er es auch als seine medizinischen Abschlüsse im Vereinigten Königreich gefälscht.
This man is a disturbed person for several reasons:
1) notorious liar
2) unaware of his ignorance and lack of skill as a plastic surgeon
3) doesn’t have an iota of empathy to admit a mistake
4) states worrying facts that are not normal at all
5) He writes about himself in the third person and uses the superlative
I am really shocked! Is it possible that no one controls these plastic surgeons?
This is outrageous, this is truly incredible behavior by a surgeon. I hope that you will get your compensation.
Egyptian plastic surgeons are bad and big liars, two of my friends had their breasts and nose done in Cairo by other surgeons and they were ruined. We’re from the UK and Cairo is cheaper than the UK in terms of services, but you’re really risking your life. A friend who had breast implants work done at the same clinic at the same time as teeth, got a bad infection in her mouth and paid almost 20,000£ to a UK dentist to fix her mouth. I’m sorry for what you went through, but Egypt is risky and their people are unfriendly to foreigners. Because of their poor standard, they want to steal and are aggressive towards tourists. I admire people who even think about going to Egypt.
As a plastic surgeon I can say that Egypt is a very bad destination for medical tourism, they cannot help their own people properly, let alone foreigners. As you mentioned, the state of their private health care system is very bad and the medical staff, especially the nurses, like to take money from patients in order to really be served properly in a private hospital. Hygiene is also very questionable, as is the way of working. The results of your operation are terrible and this is proof that in addition to the inexperience of my colleague, his ability to provide you with quality PO care, while he was aware that you are an influencer and that you are not an ordinary patient that he can deceive, as he has a practice that it works because I saw in the comments that dissatisfied patients of Dr. Ghoraba. If you are thinking of having revision surgery you can do it in Lebanon (Beirut) or Turkey (Istanbul, Izmir or Ankara) and pay close attention to the medical degrees of your plastic surgeon and ask them to show it to you, because you have the right to see them during the consultation, since you are paying to be satisfied and you need to know if your surgeon is competent to perform this type of intervention, especially on the face because it is the most noticeable part of the body and you see to find a maxillofacial surgeon. If you find that the surgeon does not understand you or avoids answering some questions or showing his qualifications, find another surgeon.
I’m so sorry for what happened to you, really no one deserved to be destroyed like this!
Dear Mrs. Ružica, I must express my sincere regret that you experienced this. I, as a plastic surgeon in Italy, am ashamed of the work of my Egyptian colleague for leaving you with numerous complications. Dr. Ghoraba is proof that non-professional surgeons do exist, as anyone can apparently call themselves a plastic surgeon on Instagram and the internet today. I would just like to tell Dr. Ghoraba and plastic surgeons like him that real surgeons are those who prevent complications from occurring or are brave enough to treat what they have caused in patients.
Deceiving and lying to patients is strictly prohibited and the law prescribes this everywhere, and regardless of whether the patient is operated on from your country or who has traveled to be operated on, the rules must be the same for everyone. The patient is always the most important. Dr. Ghoraba is a humiliating example for our profession and if I had the power regardless of everything after this procedure, his license to work and perform any procedures on patients would be permanently revoked.
If this is how he operates on patients, I, as an expert, am interested in what kind of fellowship and mentoring program he can run when he treats patients like this. He has caused you serious health problems and this is really not normal because the complication of necrosis and nerve injury is so rare among patients, especially when we are talking about necrosis which affects 1 to 3% of patients and these are mostly those who smoke or have some kind of chronic therapy.
This is truly an honest and true opinion of a plastic surgeon. Two years ago, I had complete surgical facial rejuvenation and I am satisfied with the results, but if I were to choose a surgeon again, I would definitely choose a surgeon like you.
Bravo, caro dottore! Sono davvero colpito dalle tue parole di conforto rivolte a questa donna che ha vissuto un’esperienza molto difficile e dolorosa. Potresti dirmi dove lavori? Quale città in Italia? Ho bisogno di un lifting, ho 68 anni.
Congratulations for your honesty and the way you defined how a real professional plastic surgeon should behave! Dr. Samir Ghoraba is definitely not a doctor, he is just a butcher.
Le tue parole mi hanno toccato direttamente al cuore! Vorrei essere un tuo paziente. Ho 71 anni e vorrei sottopormi ad un intervento chirurgico di ringiovanimento del viso. Potresti per favore condividere dove lavori così posso contattarti. Questa donna ha davvero passato un inferno e mi dispiace tanto, ecco perché vorrei avere un medico come te che mi aiuti a realizzare i miei desideri.
I don’t think any of you have defined the definition of a real and responsible plastic surgeon better. If there were more surgeons like you, I believe that all people who want to change something about themselves would look perfect without worrying about the complications that this poor woman experienced.
Dear Rose, This has been a really hard post for me and I sincerely hope you are better today and on the mend. This post definitely left a powerful and quite strong impression and I think I will always remember this the next time I think I need the services of a plastic surgeon. If this happened to you who are a famous blogger, then what do other people say who are not engaged in some kind of public work. It’s especially rude that the doctor didn’t pay properly for all his mistakes instead of threatening you. This is an indication that he is a big coward and weakling. He is a very bad man and it shows in his pictures. He and his brother are hungry for money and cheat patients, but there is karma.
You were beautiful even before the operation, it’s a shame that you ran into a jerk from the surgeon who disfigured you like that. As a doctor, if someone had disfigured my mother like that, I would have dealt with him physically in Egypt. I don’t really care about the law, obviously Egypt is a lawless country and you just have to take matters into your own hands. Shame!
Das ist sehr schade und eine große Tragödie für eine Frau. Ich kenne einen sehr guten plastischen Chirurgen in Berlin, schreiben Sie mir, wenn Sie möchten, dass ich Ihnen seine Kontaktdaten gebe. Ich muss noch einmal sagen, wie leid es mir für diese unglückliche Situation tut und ich hoffe, dass Sie sich bald erholen. Ich glaube, dass Sie nach der zweiten Gesichtsoperation genau so aussehen werden, wie Sie es sich vorgestellt haben. Mit FG, Elke
This is not a medical case, this is an example of ruining someone’s life in all aspects. I admire how you survived all this at your age.
After this post, I believe that everyone will think carefully about choosing the right plastic surgeon for any cosmetic surgery. Honestly, no one would want to be disfigured.
I wouldn’t be able to find the right words to ease your disappointment, your mental and emotional pain after all. I just sincerely hope that Dr. Samir Ghoraba and Dr. Mohamed Yassin is receiving God’s greatest punishment after all that they have done to you and knowingly allowed to endanger your physical appearance and put you in danger of life. They will be facing the biggest punishment of their lives pretty soon, I am sure!
Dr. Samir Ghoraba bought a massive number of fake positive reviews, I reported it to the Google team, since all the people who left reviews have only one review and that’s exactly with Dr. Ghoraba and 99% of the reviews do not make sense. I used to work at Google and this is a serious violation of their rules, they will block his Google Business profile, so I believe he will not be able to continue deceiving people.
I read your story for almost 2 hours, I also called my husband, and I am still shocked at what kind of damage the man has caused you and how he is trying to escape from responsibility.
Dear Mrs. Tadic, I am really sorry that I had the opportunity to read your story. As a retired plastic surgeon, I have over 40 years of experience, have operated on numerous celebrities and seen all sorts of complications. A plastic surgeon is a lifelong learner and I myself have made mistakes several times, but I have faced them and dealt with them with my team. I have never allowed a patient to leave my clinic with a compromised health. During my work, I only saw necrosis of the face twice, but only in patients who smoke and did not listen to my advice to stop smoking 2-3 weeks before the operation, but none of them had such a large extent. Your case is really special because you developed a very severe form that led to severe tissue infection and even a cyst developed. I have never seen a cyst like this in all my years of work, and all this is a combination of medical error and medical negligence. Since you were operated on in Egypt, the hygiene in the operating room, the expertise of the surgeons, and the sterilization of the medical instruments used there are really questionable. I hope you will receive adequate compensation because this is a very serious case and for such a combination of numerous criminal general and medical errors, Dr. Ghoraba can be permanently banned from working and of course his medical license to work can be revoked.
Hello Ruzica, I think you should send your post to the organizers of the Cairo Face 2024 medical conference, which Dr. Ghoraba is soo “proud of his work” to send to the organizers and all participants so that they know who Dr. Ghoraba. To say this is a disaster is an understatement!
Dear Mrs. Rose, I find it very difficult to read your story because I see myself after breast surgery where the surgeon left me with large infections and scars that, even 15 years after the surgery, I cannot get rid of. I have major complexes and haven’t been able to go to the beach for years, and I can only imagine what it must be like for you when you were forced to buy wigs to be able to be with people. I saw the Instagram profile of Dr. Samir Ghoraba and I can say all the worst about him and that malice and desire for money can be seen in his eyes, he does not care about patients. Believe me such surgeons and their team are the same type of people and none of them end well. Surely he has children and believe me their children and family will pay for their mistakes. My surgeon’s daughter died 2 years after he did my surgery and he went out of business, that’s his biggest punishment, I call it karma.
I hope you get well soon and wait a little while and find another surgeon to correct all the mistakes and forget about this hell. This post will always be a good reminder for all patients to consider whether they want to be operated on by Dr. Samir Ghoraba on his horrible clinic.
Instead of a youthful appearance, the plastic surgeon gave you a hell of a life and you were left to survive. I hope Samir Ghoraba rots in jail along with his clinic team for their excessive love of money and gross incompetence.
Dear Ruzica, I believe you are not informed, but Tanta University has the worst medical faculty and students who failed to enter another faculty study program in Egypt. If you are interested in the best medical colleges in Egypt where real surgeons have completed their education, they are: Cairo University is definitely the best, Ain Shams University, Alexandria University, New Giza University, Aswan University, Assuit University also has the new Badr University in Cairo and Misr International University. Your surgeon graduated from a university that is not known for some professional education staff plus your surgeon has only 8 research medical papers so he could hardly be some international expert.
Dear Rose, It’s really unfortunate what happened to you and I can also say that I am disappointed with Egypt and their health system. I went there to see my daughter while she was working in Cairo and operated on her eyes and nose. I didn’t have severe complications like you, but I’m physically ruined and can’t breathe normally after the surgery. I paid 4750 USD for both surgeries with the plastic surgeon’s assistants trying to take more money from me like you. All doctors in Egypt have a lot of assistants, in case there is a problem with money, they always blame the assistant and replace him with another one later, if the surgeon receives money in his hands, he would go to prison. You really have a lot of evidence and I hope that Dr. Samir Ghoraba to be held criminally accountable.
dr. Samir Ghoraba also caused me a severe infection after the intervention and ruined my face! The man has been doing it for years and changing clinics, you are really brave to have the courage to present your case.
This man will definitely answer to the law for more criminal acts, and I wish you a lot of happiness and health. I hope you get so much compensation that you forget this hell.
I was a patient of Dr. Samir Ghoraba and I witnessed many bad operations he did. He has absolutely no follow-up program for monitoring patients, nor does he care about them. He brags that he has connections and that you are free to sue him and threatens any disgruntled patient through his assistants. After the operations, I didn’t even see him, even though I demanded to see him, the doctor who examined me said that Dr. Samir has no time. I paid a lot of money to recover from his mistake and I met a lot of people that Dr. Samir Ghoraba ruined his life with his negligent work. He only knows how to threaten and nothing else. I reported him to the embassy a long time ago, but I haven’t received an answer, I will have to contact them again.
First off I’d like to say thank you for being brave and sharing your story. You are a survivor ❤️ 💪 and you didn’t deserve what happened to you! That fake surgeon deserves to go to jail for what he’s done to you! God bless you and your family and I’ll be praying for you all.
This is horrible, the surgeon should be held accountable, pay compensation and go to jail. This is not medical malpractice, this is butchery. I have shared your story with my friends in Dubai and Abu Dhabi to be careful and to inform other potential patients.
This is the shame of a surgeon, he is not a man, he is an animal! To destroy someone’s life like this and to offer 10,000 euros… Millions of euros are paid in Europe and America to ensure that the surgeon does not lose his license and that the patient remains silent about everything, and only then can we talk about the NDA.
Good day Mrs. Ruzica, I would like to tell you that I received a message on what’s app that I will be paid if I write a fake positive Google review for Dr. clinic. Samir Ghoraba. I just want to help you and prove the truth about the fake surgeon since he buys reviews. If you don’t know Arabic I can translate for you, in short: they ask to write a positive review and send a screenshot of the review and based on the number of reviews that are written they will get money for 4 reviews they will get 100EGP (2 USD), for 8 reviews – 200EGP, for 10 reviews 300 EGP, 15 reviews will be paid 500EGP and 25 reviews will be paid 1000 EGP (which is about 20 USD).
This is terrible, is it possible that people will endanger other people’s health and appearance for this small amount of money????! Did they think that God would pay them back for writing fake reviews? Don’t worry Mrs. Ruzica, God sees everything.
All these people should be shamed, the man bought 1300 reviews, he should be shut down by Google Business and prosecuted for violating the Google Policy on buying fake positive reviews.
This surgeon proves that he doesn’t even have a medical degree, he probably bought a degree like he bought everything in life.
I don’t understand the Arabic language, but I see that there is a price list and that there is a link for Dr. clinic. Samir Ghoraba, he should be ashamed! I have shared your story with my friends and I hope you get justice.
Dr. Ghoraba graduated from university through connections and that’s how he does everything in life, I’m his colleague, we met at a congress, he doesn’t even know what plastic surgery is, he does everything for Instagram. He learns the text by heart, when you ask him a professional question he doesn’t know the answer if he didn’t know the question in advance.
dr. Samir Ghoraba graduated from one of the worst medical schools in Egypt, he was probably a bad student and could not enter a better school. Tanta University is not even in the top 10 universities in Egypt, it is known as the faculty for the worst students. I’m sorry you didn’t know that before. I will report your case to the Ministry of Health for a review of his license, especially for misrepresenting himself as a UK board licensed consultant. It is a serious offence, as well as attempted theft of money and tax evasion.
This is sadness to heaven, I thought about having surgery at Dr. Samir Ghoraba since I found his instagram by chance, so I decided to research on the internet. After reading your story, I prefer to live with wrinkles and with dignity. I’m sorry that this happened to you because no one deserves it, and doctors should be banned from working and approaching patients for life.
I am one of the former patients of Dr. Samir Ghoraba also disfigured my face and after I complained to Dr. Ghoraba, Dr. Marwa and his assistants laughed in my face and said that they had connections and that I was free to sue them. dr. Ghoraba is not a doctor but an ordinary butcher who needs to get in his way and stop his bad work. He changes and edits all pictures and videos to show perfect results. Several of his patients that I met told me that he edited their pictures and results and that they were unhappy and that he lied to people on Instagram that all of his patients were satisfied.
I’m shocked, I can’t believe what I read. I thought about booking a consultation with Dr. Samir Ghoraba to do a Facelift, but after this story I don’t think I will even think of dialing the number of his clinic. I hope that Allah will help you find your way and get well since you suffered and this looks painful through the pictures. I wish you a speedy and safe recovery.
You were operated on by an unprofessional without required skills surgeon, it is really a miracle that you are alive after everything. This is a crime and a life sentence for Dr. Samir Ghoraba and Dr. Mohamed Yassin. I am working in one printed media in Dubai. Can you please give me your email to send you the questions for an article. We are interested in sharing awareness about this serious matter and drawing attention to medical negligence.
I worked at the clinic of Dr. Samir Ghoraba, he does not operate on patients but younger surgeons work for him, as you said he just likes to take pictures and see his image in the mirror. He is a very bad man and he made disasters of their face, because he changed so many clinics. He caused people serious complications and then threatened them with lawyers with his brother and assistants. It’s true that he only accept cash payments without receipt, because there is no evidences and patients can’t sue him! Thank you for speaking up.
I’m really sorry for everything that happened to you, Dr. Samir Ghoraba should be ashamed and lose his license not to approach humans at all, let alone operate on them. I would also forbid him even to approach the plants!
I have a very difficult and bad experience with Dr. Samir Ghoraba in Cairo and his team. He ruined my face, after that he threatened me and harassed me together with his brother and they got in my face, the man works illegally, he works like that in other countries with surgeons similar to him in Dubai. If you want, we can establish a group of victims of Dr. Samir Ghoraba and to file a class action lawsuit in Egypt and Dubai to review his work license. I have a scar all over my face that I haven’t been able to fix even today and my mental side is difficult.
This surgeon, Dr. Ghoraba is not a doctor but a butcher and I would like someone to do this to him and offer him 10,000 euros to keep quiet about it for the rest of his life. He is suck a jerk! Someone will definitely stand in his way at some point. No surgeon like him ever got away with it. I shared your story with my friends who are journalists in the Middle East. I wish you a lot of happiness and health.
Dr. Samir Ghoraba ruined my life as well, I regularly read what he publishes on Instagram and I simply cannot believe that he manages to deceive people like this on social networks. As he ruined my nose and face, I have the feeling that he is not really a doctor and that he bought a diploma or had some connection to get it, that is a completely normal thing in Egypt, whoever has a little more money. Dear Ruzica, you are still a beautiful woman and I support you in the further fight against this inhuman, Allah will punish him when the time comes.
In Egypt, all plastic surgeons cheat their patients with their team and charge in cash for tax evasion and so that patients can’t get sick. I was ruined by Dr. Samir Ghoraba with Dr. Marwa and they stole my money, they demanded more money after the operation than we agreed. They have no souls, they just want money from patients. I believe that because of you he closed the clinic again and opened a new one, it is his regular practice when he makes a big mistake. He is an unscrupulous man who manipulates patients and he does not operate on patients because he only knows how to take pictures. He is a mascot and nothing more. He edits the pictures of his patients and thus fakes the results of his doctors’ surgeries that destroy people.
Dear Mrs. Rose, I cannot find the right words of comfort for your pain, but I can sincerely thank you for saving me and my friends. We in Dubai heard about Dr. Samir Ghoraba, but after your shocking story, we canceled consultations and potential surgeries. We saw that the owner of the clinic where he works in Dubai is also not great so they are similar and because of that there is a big chance that the results will be bad.
It’s terrible what happened to you, I’m really shaken because of you. I sincerely hope that God will give you the strength to continue with your life normally. Dr. Ghoraba is prison material, not working with people and ruining people’s health and appearance and taking money for it. I reported him to the Dubai Health Authority, I hope more patients will find out about this monster.
I also had a problem with Dr. Samir Ghoraba and with Dr. Marwa and similar scenario like yours with old money and dollars and they also ruined me. dr. Samir Ghoraba is rubbish. The man has no soul or ethics towards patients, he only cares about money in his eyes and soul. I also noticed that he really doesn’t have any knowledge and that others tell him what to say to patients. After all this, I doubt he even has a real medical degree. Here in Egypt, everything can be bought and obtained through connections, who knows how this man even got his diploma, if it really exists.
My friend studies the Faculty of Medicine at Tanta University, it is almost a non-existent faculty, the degree is obtained for money or through acquaintances if you know the right people. After your story, this is really the truth about diplomas. As soon as this Dr. Ghoraba lied about his UK medical degrees, I wouldn’t be surprised if he bought or forged a Manta college degree since no one checks degrees from bad universities in Egypt.
This is called real hell, which really no one should experience. Dr. Samir Ghoraba should spend at least 20 years in prison and pay you millions in compensation.
This text is an excellent example of a phenomenally written negative review without any basis for a lawsuit by this so-called “expert” surgeon who allows something like this to go public. It is sad how doctors play with human health and life. I wish you a speedy recovery!
This is a real tragedy, Dr. Samir Ghoraba deserves a long prison sentence, a lifetime license ban and a ban from working on patients and to pay you serious compensation for everything you went through and of course for the entire repair of your face and neck. Believe me, if there is no court on Earth, Karma and the real court will judge him at some point. People like him can’t expect to have a good life and I’m sure there are many more patients he’s ruined. I read his reviews, it seems that he writes his own reviews and deletes negative reviews that don’t suit him.
You are so beautiful! I cannot believe what he did to you. I really appreciate how clear and detailed this was, too, as someone who has worked in both law and medicine. Please get better. Wishing you the best
Im so sorry for your experience, and I hope in 2025 you would be better by now .. I just wanted to let you know that people on Egypt started to have doubts on him and on person published your article in the biggest plastic surgery female group, where women shares their experience with numerous procedures and this one came out. Please let me know how are now and hope he would receive the punishment that he deserves.
I’m an American who found your bog via Facebook. I just want to say how incredibly sorry I am for your experience. Please know that it was not your fault. It is my opinion that this man is a thief, a scam artist and an overall horrible person who takes no responsibility for his actions. By posting about your experience, you are saving other women. I am very grateful.
I hope that you are well. Please know that I’m praying for you today.
Hello my name is Amr from egypt and I had a rhinoplasty with dr samir ghoraba too and he ruined my nose shape, my breathing and my life.