Lasik Eyes Surgery - Surgical Eyes

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Surgical Eyes - SEF was a disaster

Ragnar

2004-12-27, 4:08 am

I don't know why Ron keeps beating a dead horse, but he seems
determined to propagate the idea that Surgical Eyes helped people.
Without going into a long diatribe about how that is nonsense, I will
give one example of what a disaster SE was.

The Lasik Vision Institute or LVI is well known to have the highest
incidence of complications of any chain of laser centers.
Specifically, the Tampa branch of LVI run by Marco Musa had perhaps a
world record number of complications in one day in that they infected
the eyes of almost every one of their two dozen patients that they had
one day. A T.V. news report was done on this and a class action suit
was filed. In that T.V. report, they interviewed Ron Link.
Incredibly, Link in effect defended LVI by saying that these types of
complications were normal, and not unusual. In the same report, the
most prominent LASIK surgeon in the Tampa Bay region said he's done
over 30,000 procedures without a single infection. Sounds to me that
all those infections in one day were far from business as usual. This
is just one example of LVI's abuses. Now... one might ask why the
headquarters of Surgical Eyes and the home of Ron Link is within
walking distance of Tampa's LVI, yet they have never lifted a finger
to attack them in any way at all.

Someone suggested that organizations that "donate" some money to SE
don't get negative reports and those that don't donate get "leaned
on".

Glenn - USAEyes.org

2004-12-27, 7:08 am

Actually, SurgicalEyes did help a lot of people in many different
ways. That it had limitations and faltered is not to diminish the
value of its accomplishments.

To my knowledge, Link and SurgicalEyes never "attacked" any one
provider or any one entity, but directed their efforts at refractive
surgery in general.

Glenn Hagele
Executive Director
Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance

Email to glenn dot hagele at usaeyes dot org

http://www.USAEyes.org
http://www.ComplicatedEyes.org

I am not a doctor.

Ragnar

2004-12-28, 2:08 am

You are far too kind to certain entities such as SE.
Strange that they don't pull any punches with you. They use you for a
punching bag and you just keep taking more abuse. Is that the
Muhammed Ali rope-a-dope technique?

I have no doubt that more people have been hurt than helped by SE.
Misinformation is rarely a good thing. They consider scaring someone
out of having LASIK done to be helping them. That is not unlike
convincing someone not to have a leg amputated or a colostomy done.

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 11:38:04 GMT, Glenn - USAEyes.org
<glenn.hageleSTOPSPAM@USAEyes.org> wrote:

>Actually, SurgicalEyes did help a lot of people in many different
>ways. That it had limitations and faltered is not to diminish the
>value of its accomplishments.
>
>To my knowledge, Link and SurgicalEyes never "attacked" any one
>provider or any one entity, but directed their efforts at refractive
>surgery in general.
>
>Glenn Hagele
>Executive Director
>Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance
>
>Email to glenn dot hagele at usaeyes dot org
>
>http://www.USAEyes.org
>http://www.ComplicatedEyes.org
>
>I am not a doctor.

Simpledog

2004-12-28, 10:08 pm

Ragnar, take this post of yours, and read it over and over and over again
until it becomes clear.

"Misinformation is rarely a good thing."

"Ragnar" <ragnarsuomi@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:i1u1t0lcjm46b8mnits3heqq5pshti4ket@4ax.com...
> You are far too kind to certain entities such as SE.
> Strange that they don't pull any punches with you. They use you for a
> punching bag and you just keep taking more abuse. Is that the
> Muhammed Ali rope-a-dope technique?
>
> I have no doubt that more people have been hurt than helped by SE.
> Misinformation is rarely a good thing. They consider scaring someone
> out of having LASIK done to be helping them. That is not unlike
> convincing someone not to have a leg amputated or a colostomy done.
>
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 11:38:04 GMT, Glenn - USAEyes.org
> <glenn.hageleSTOPSPAM@USAEyes.org> wrote:
>
>