Lasik Eyes Surgery - Judge Settles Malpractice Suit With Serial Surgeon

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Judge Settles Malpractice Suit With Serial Surgeon

Brent Hanson - LasikFraud.com

2005-04-14, 8:42 am

PAIN, BLURRED VISION BLAMED ON SURGERY

DADE CITY - Pasco Circuit Judge Lynn Tepper has reached a settlement with
the Largo eye surgeon she sued for malpractice in 2003.

Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

Tepper, 52, sued John Michaelos saying that Michaelos botched the Lasik eye
surgery he performed on her in December 2000. Michaelos performed 19
additional surgeries in an attempt to correct the damage to Tepper's right
eye, but nothing worked. The last surgery was in April 2002.

The parties reached a settlement March 14, about a month before the case was
scheduled to go to trial.

Jeff Goodis, attorney for Michaelos, said the parties had settled but would
not disclose the amount of the settlement because of a confidentiality
agreement.

"It was getting very time consuming and stressful getting ready for trial,"
Tepper said.

Tepper said she was in severe pain for the months during and after the
surgeries. Her vision also was blurred and she saw multiples of everything
she looked at. Her vision has improved slightly since the Lasik operations,
but she still sees multiples. Doctors have told her that a procedure called
a custom ablation might help once advances are made in the technology.

Tepper originally opted to have Lasik surgery to cure her nearsightedness.

Glenn - USAEyes.org

2005-04-19, 10:51 am

Is anyone surprised that this was settled out of court and the terms
are not being disclosed?

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.

LASIKtruth

2005-04-19, 10:51 am

No, noone is surprised. This is how Refractive Surgery ugliness is hidden,
allowing patients to think there is nothing wrong with these procedures....
they think to themselves "If there are problems I would have heard about
them". Actually they don't hear about them because there is plenty of hush
money tossed around to keep refractive surgery casualties quiet.

"Glenn - USAEyes.org" <glenn.hageleSTOPSPAM@USAEyes.org> wrote in message
news:5ifv519ahq0vjsfnq36turi4oh08ifueig@4ax.com...
> Is anyone surprised that this was settled out of court and the terms
> are not being disclosed?
>
> 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.

Glenn - USAEyes.org

2005-04-19, 10:51 am

The patient was a judge, considered independently wealthy, knows the
law, has the resources. Look at the facts and you will realize that
this not hush money, IMO, it is extortion. Then again, the doctor
wasn't required to take the deal. Without a trial or the settlement
known, no one will every really know for sure.

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.

serebel

2005-04-19, 10:51 am

Sandy here knows everything, just ask her. Having all those surgeries
and all.

SErebel

Ragnar

2005-04-19, 10:51 am

I'd like to know how 10 million procedures get hushed up.

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:31:26 -0400, "LASIKtruth"
<LASIKtruth@Yahoo_nospam.com> wrote:

>No, noone is surprised. This is how Refractive Surgery ugliness is hidden,
>allowing patients to think there is nothing wrong with these procedures....
>they think to themselves "If there are problems I would have heard about
>them". Actually they don't hear about them because there is plenty of hush
>money tossed around to keep refractive surgery casualties quiet.
>
>"Glenn - USAEyes.org" <glenn.hageleSTOPSPAM@USAEyes.org> wrote in message
>news:5ifv519ahq0vjsfnq36turi4oh08ifueig@4ax.com...
>