Pat you do a great job here, and probably are a much better gate keeper than most in keeping out the trash. And I am not defending Dr. Elliott. His post was pretty condescending in his comparing California to the Easter US, an attitude which is pretty much what I have learned to expect from many members of the medical profession. Still, defamation is defamation. Not that you've done so or others on this board have done so, but it is a big problem on the internet.

If a newbie may weigh in...

With respect to Dr. Elliot's perspective on internet "marketing," if I understood his words correctly, I would say emphatically that sites such as this one, and several others like it, are of immense value specifically because they provide a foil for "marketing," and allow people like me and others at the bottom of the hair-transplant learning curve to interact with people -- some, hundreds or thousands of miles away -- and see real results, and use this to make informed and intelligent decisions.