(PHOTOS) Man Suing Surgeon After He Woke From Surgery To Find His Entire Nose Removed

A man woke up after getting a nose job to find that the
plastic surgeon had removed his nose entirely.
Patient Vishal Thakkar went to Dr Angelo Cuzalina, the
president of the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery, for
more than eight surgeries over the course of a half a dozen
years.
Mr Thakkar said after he went through a divorce in 2006, he
decided to 'do something selfish' and get a nose job. He was
living in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the time and went to one of the
leading plastic surgeons in the area, Dr. Cuzalina.
Thakkar before his surgery
Dr Cuzalina could not be reached for comment and his
lawyers previously denied interview requests from Fox 23
on the grounds that they would not be able to speak about
Mr Thakkar's medical history given doctor-patient
confidentiality agreements.
Thakkar says that after the first surgery he suffered some
relatively minor breathing problems that occurred when he
slept or worked out.
He went back to Dr Cuzalina eight times within the year to
treat various fixes from the previous treatments.
Dr Cuzalina
Before one of the surgeries, Thakkar alleges that he
specifically told one of Dr Cuzalina's nurses that he did not
want them to take any cartilage from his ears should they
need it for his nose during the surgery.
When he woke up a few hours later, he had pain behind his
ears because they had done just that. Fox 23 says the doctor
later emailed an apology to Mr Thakkar.
Those recordings were then used as justification for Dr.
Cuzalina's August 31, 2012 letter where he said that he would
no longer operate on Mr Thakkar because of his 'ongoing
threats and harassment against my staff, my practice, and
me personally'.
As a part of Mr Thakkar's lawsuit, he went on to say that the
plastic surgeon, who is the president of the American Board
of Cosmetic Surgery and has no prior complaints filed
against him in the state of Oklahoma, gave him a dangerous
mix of prescription medication.
The lawsuit says Mr Thakkar was 'prescribed an excessive
amount of medication, enough to kill the patient, if taken,
including but not limited to Loratab, Ambien, Valilum, and
Oxycodone.'
This is far from the end of his plastic surgery nightmare,
however, as he is determined to fix his face.
'There is no way I am going to live like this. It is worse than
being dead,' he said.