Botched spin-off series Botched By Nature arrived on E! Entertainment in 2016. Rather than focusing on the ‘botched’ surgeries people have voluntarily opted for in life, Botched by Nature sees Dr Nassif and Dr Dubrow helping out patients who were either “botched by genetics” or suffered “a traumatic incident.” In episode 5, the surgeons find a rare solution for a man with a “modern-day Van Gogh ear.”
During Charlie’s episode, the doctors explain how he was born with one ear. The famous Botched surgeons find a unique solution for him after he says he’s “felt incomplete forever.” With Charlie’s “Van Gogh ear” getting sorted, Botched doctors Dr Dubrow says Dr Nassif actually have a “mildly urgent” medical issue he should deal with, too.
‘Modern-day Van Gogh’ seeks help from Botched doctors after being born with one ear
Introducing their next patient, Dr Paul Nassif says: “Charlie was born without an ear, so no hearing, apparently he had some surgeries with his ear in the past, I’m just looking at his photos.”
He explains in a confessional: “When a child is born without an ear it is usually a congenital deformity and that can be hereditary which can be inherited from somebody in your family or it could of been caused by the environment.”
Musican Charlie had the doctors thinking he’d had “some kind of skin graft” on his ear, but they later found out he only had skin removal surgery on his ear.
He felt “nervous” to meet the doctors and said he was a “scaredy cat when it comes to surgeries.”
The Botched doctors were “amazed” by Charlie when they went to his house after learning he was a talented musician.
He explained how he began playing music “at a really young age” and “by the time he was 14 or 15 ” he was playing in bars and making money.
After a rendition of one of his songs, the doctors talk through Charlie’s options for his ear.
The patient explains he thinks he was born with “Goldenhar syndrome,” and reflects on waking up in a hospital bed around the age of three with bandages on his head.
Surgery or risk-free solution?
Charlie was offered two options to help him to “feel complete” in his looks. The doctors said he could either opt for surgery on his ear, or a prosthetic ear could be made as an instant solution.
Instead of going under the knife, Charlie said he’d rather go with the rare zero-surgery answer to his missing ear.
The non-surgical and no-risk option saw the doctors enlist the help of a skilled prosthetician who worked for the CIA.
Dr Dubrow asked: “How often do we find solutions that are quick, painless, risk-free, and perfect?”
Dr Nassif said: “With the surgeries that we do? Never.”
Upon the news he was set to have a new ear made, Charlie said he was “flabbergasted.”
And when he received the prosthetic body part, he joked it was a bit “eery” looking.
A quick glance at Charlie’s Facebook page and he’s still making music nowadays.
No surgery for Charlie – but Dr Nassif went under the knife
Episode 5 saw Charlie feeling “complete and symmetrical” without any surgery required.
One of the Botched doctors, however, did have to go under the knife during the show.
Dr Nassif said: “I think I may have an umbilical hernia.”
After investigating his pal’s abdomen, Dr Dubrow confirms: “That’s an incarcerated umbilical hernia, you gotta get that fixed… it really is an urgent matter.”
Later in the episode, Dr Dubrow operates on Dr Nassif to fix the umbilical hernia.
After the operation, Terry checks in on Paul and tells him he had not one, but two hernias.
Terry said he had to “amputate” some of his organs as they were pushing through the “4mm opening” in his abdomen.
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