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LASIK candidates deserve a truthful booklet on COMPLICATIONS
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| Trulytelling@yahoo.com 2005-12-10, 6:03 pm |
| If patients could pick up a labeling booklet and see these facts, which
they deserve to know, there would be a lot less refractive surgey going
on and many grateful owners of healthy eyes:
1. You will likely experience substantial, permanent and
irreversible corneal nerve
damage.
2. The integrity of the cornea will never be restored. Once a flap
is cut the interface is
permanent, and the cornea remains structurally weakened.
3. Loss of contrast sensitivity and an increase in higher order
aberrations are the norm.
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| Those would scare away most people. The booklet instead is not clear on
the complications. They also say an enhancement can fix complications
anyway. The surgeon even tells you not to mind the consent forms, they
are just routine, but hes the "best" and can do lasik right so nothing
bad happens. Thus anyone looking to do lasik needs to research it on
the internet first
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| CatmanX 2005-12-11, 7:49 am |
| This NG needs a warning against morons like you brent.
get a grip on it, and i is not your penis I am talking about.
dr grant
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| Ugh, Mason has nothing resembling manners.
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| Ugh, Mason has nothing resembling manners.
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| Lasik Complications 2005-12-17, 1:04 am |
| One of the problems is that the FDA mandates that any individual that
shows or request information about lasik be provided a Patient
Information Booklet (PIB). Well the doctor that did my lasik did not
provide me one and it was not an oversight because I know several
people that saw him about lasik and no one was given a booklet.
Doctors know that the FDA is not monitoring them, therefore, they are
not complying, otherwise they would lose money.
Lasik Complications
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| serebel 2005-12-17, 1:04 am |
| You are so full of crap, people are informed. You actually have to read
them.
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| Lasik Complications 2005-12-17, 1:04 am |
| And you can confirm that because you have seen every single surgeon
that performs lasik in this country and verified that everyone is
provided a Patient Information Booklet.
Lasik Complications
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| serebel 2005-12-17, 1:04 am |
| Does this mean that you've seen every single surgeon in this country
neglect to provide informed consent?
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| Lasik Complications 2005-12-17, 1:04 am |
| I can only speak for the surgeon that did lasik on me. Lasik
Complications
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| Gee, and those forms tell you that all corneal refractive surgeries
induce permanent distortions in your corneas that can't be corrected
with glasses? That your corneas will be permanently thinned and
weakened by refractive surgery? That you'll have corneal nerve damage?
My booklet had forged clinical outcome data. Seventy percent of
clinical outcomes weren't used. If I had seen the real data I never
would have had surgery.
Oh - and contrast sensitivity data were collected and not reported. If
all patients have a bad outcome in terms of contrast sensitivity it's
best for the laser companies and surgeons to cover up this fact.
Contrast sensitivity, dry eye, increased higher order aberrations...
all the problems I experience were not mentioned AT ALL in any of my
consent materials, which I still have.
I have never seen consent forms which disclose the consequences of
refractive surgery.
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| Glenn - USAEyes.org 2005-12-18, 1:04 am |
| >I have never seen consent forms which disclose the consequences of
>refractive surgery.
I don't know what you are expecting "Eye", but competent lawyers and
scores of malpractice insurance agencies have developed informed
consent (including video, written tests, and formal documents to be
signed) that have withstood plaintiff's claims of "I wasn't informed"
time and time again. In a litigious society like ours, the final
arbiter of what is informed consent is the court.
That is not to say that there are not cases where patients are not
appropriately informed, but to suggest that no one is informed or that
no informed consent is adequate is simply wrong.
Glenn Hagele
Executive Director
USAEyes.org
"Consider and Choose With Confidence"
Email to glenn dot hagele at usaeyes dot org
http://www.USAEyes.org
http://www.ComplicatedEyes.org
I am not a doctor.
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| serebel 2005-12-18, 1:04 am |
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Eye wrote:
> Gee, and those forms tell you that all corneal refractive surgeries
> induce permanent distortions in your corneas that can't be corrected
> with glasses? That your corneas will be permanently thinned and
> weakened by refractive surgery? That you'll have corneal nerve damage?
> My booklet had forged clinical outcome data. Seventy percent of
> clinical outcomes weren't used. If I had seen the real data I never
> would have had surgery.
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> Oh - and contrast sensitivity data were collected and not reported. If
> all patients have a bad outcome in terms of contrast sensitivity it's
> best for the laser companies and surgeons to cover up this fact.
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> Contrast sensitivity, dry eye, increased higher order aberrations...
> all the problems I experience were not mentioned AT ALL in any of my
> consent materials, which I still have.
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> I have never seen consent forms which disclose the consequences of
> refractive surgery.
The consent forms don't have to conforn to your fanatsy outcomes. They
contain actual info about the surgery.
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