| Sandy - LASIKdisaster.com - LASIKmemorial.com 2005-01-27, 8:51 am |
| "What are the most urgent issues that ophthalmologists currently face?
Unfortunately, they are not medically related but legally and
financially driven. Serious problems with regard to malpractice
litigation, decreasing reimbursement, and encroachment by optometrists
are challenging ophthalmologists. For example, decreasing
reimbursements have resulted in many physicians' opting out of
therapeutic procedures such as cataract surgery. They feel that their
livelihoods depend upon patient-reimbursed elective procedures such as
cosmetic or refractive surgery. With improvements in surgical
techniques, patients' expectations have risen, creating a smaller
permissable margin of error for surgeons and increasing malpractice
rates. It is sad and telling to see the children of ophthalmologists
pursuing careers outside of ophthalmology for these reasons."
http://www.crstoday.com/PDF%20Articles/1104/5Q1.html
Gosh, doesn't this just make you wanna cry?
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