My guess is ego - he drank the Kool-aide of his wonderfulness, based on his grateful early patients, getting on cable TV, and having a string of disturbed lovesick nurses and patients throw themselves at him, and vice versa (including the Notorious YouKnowWho in MX). I think he needed to keep topping his latest successes by being a surgical innovator and inventing a surgery - the first one, the VERGITO (cutting out and turning a piece of the ileum backwards, and removing omentum, plus some kind of gastrectomy), and then some procedure he named after himself (!) which I can't remember (Husted Ileal something or other).
But his constantly changing practices suggests strongly that he didn't play well with others.
Here are the complaints filed in the lawsuits - I've downloaded a few more documents (denying motions for summary judgment by Husted in a couple of cases; awarding it in another; in all cases, Husted is trying to get the cases dismissed because he's gotten the judgment dismissed in the bankruptcy he's already filed:
But his constantly changing practices suggests strongly that he didn't play well with others.
Here are the complaints filed in the lawsuits - I've downloaded a few more documents (denying motions for summary judgment by Husted in a couple of cases; awarding it in another; in all cases, Husted is trying to get the cases dismissed because he's gotten the judgment dismissed in the bankruptcy he's already filed:
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