Legal Opinion
Vito v. Dhillon
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided September 21, 2004No. A04A2170, A04A2171PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Eldridge, Judge.
It is undisputed in this case that appellee-plaintiff Gurjit Dhillon, then five feet five inches tall, sought elective cosmetic surgery to increase his height. Paid $40,000, podiatrist George R. Vito, D.P.M., performed a limb-lengthening procedure 1 on both of Mr. Dhillon’s legs and feet, which were perfectly normal before undergoing the procedure. The surgery left one of Mr. Dhillon’s legs shorter than the other and both angulated to the ground below the knee. On September 9, 2003, Mr. Dhillon filed his complaint for damages, later amended, against appellants-defendants Dr.…
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