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From yin to yang, or maybe yang to yin
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| crvc@wyoming.com 2005-05-25, 11:52 am |
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A month ago I visited LASIKPLUS in Salt Lake City for a free eye
examination, in hopes that recent improvements in surgery would allow
repair of the night vision damage I developed after LASIK seven years
ago.
The LASIKPLUS center is a multi-story building in a huge parking lot.
It was glitzy, professional, well lit, with professional greeters and
techicians. I went from room to room getting exotic eye tests, each
time being seen by a different technician and finally was examined by
an optometrist. The surgical suite had floor-to ceiling glass so I
could see the doctor and nurses working. It was all designed to ease
the fears of prospective clients and I'm sure it does.
The end result was being told I wasn't a good candidate for surgery
because the Alcon systen had not YET been approved for my degree of
HOAs. They referred me to another eye center.
I had an exam at the other place two days ago. This other place, Eye
Associates of Salt Lake City, is a small cinderblock building in an
equally small, pitted parking lot. Where LASIKPLUS had a huge
billboard visible for miles, we had trouble finding Eye Associates
because the sign couldn't be seen from the road ten feet away. I had
to get out of the car and walk to the front door before seeing the
lettered sign on the door.
The waiting room was not much bigger than the waiting room of my vet
clinic. A receptionist handed me a clipboard with papers to be filled
out, then a tech escorted me to a multipurpose room for the exam. This
room as also small, the same size as my vet clinic exams. When my eyes
were dilated the exam was completed, taking about 10 minutes. Then I
saw a real doctor. :-) She was competent but not effusive, not
interested in pushing laser over non-laser remedies. She spent the
better part of an hour examining my eyes, checking and rechecking,
putting in eye stains herself, stopping only long enough to quietly
admonish a tech who had done something out of sequence during the
initial eye check.
In the end, her opinion is my epithelial flaps may be the cause of my
night vision problems. I believe she said the tear film is responsible
for 75% of an eye's prescription. She says I have wrinkles, folds,
striae, with basement membrane dystrophy. There are areas of scar
tissue also. In spots the flaps are thin with thicker spots
surrounding. What happens is with every blink the eyelids push fluid
off the high spots while not reaching the low spots, perpetuating the
uneven surface. She is arranging to get my file from Moran Eye
Center, where I had LASIK seven years ago.
Until she has time to read that file, she won't be sure what the next
step is. I brought up PRK but she thinks she might lift the flap,
scrape out the old scar tissue then replace it, rather than get rid of
it and start fresh. But that was an 'off the top or her head' comment.
I think she said the wrinkles are so deep they extend into the stroma,
meaning laser might be needed to level them out.
Overall I'm much more impressed by her quiet confidence than the jolly,
handshaking huckster-like impression I took away from LASIKPLUS. Even
though Moran is less than a mile away, it could take a month to get the
files transferred.
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| Glenn - USAEyes.org 2005-05-25, 11:52 am |
| It is good to hear that you appear to be in good hands, no matter what
the environment where you found those good hands.
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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| I'm glad that you had a good experience. Sounds very hopeful! Please
keep us up to day with what she says.
On the vet side of things: Sounds like your office is a small friendly
office rather than a huge vet factory. I think that kind of personal
one on one will always yield better results. It's the human
interaction, time and care that makes the difference, not the shiny
machines. That's pretty universal.
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~RT
The truth lies somewhere between Ragnar and LASIKtruth
Two sides of the same coin
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| serebel 2005-05-25, 10:54 pm |
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crvc@wyoming.com wrote:
> Overall I'm much more impressed by her quiet confidence than the jolly,
> handshaking huckster-like impression I took away from LASIKPLUS. Even
> though Moran is less than a mile away, it could take a month to get the
> files transferred.
I hope this can work for you. One thing though, why wait a month for
Moran. Get the records yourself, and just walk them in to the new doc.
SErebel
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| CatmanX 2005-05-26, 8:54 am |
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The records belong to the doctor. You are not entitled to remove them
from the practice. The said doctor will copy or write an extract of
your records, and this can take time.
dr grant
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| In article <1117095208.783568.221360@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
"CatmanX" <grantm@connexus.net.au> wrote:
> The records belong to the doctor. You are not entitled to remove them
> from the practice. The said doctor will copy or write an extract of
> your records, and this can take time.
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> dr grant
Maybe in Australia, but not in the U.S. We have HIPAA, and that
guarantees the patient access to their medical records. One needs to
request this in writing in advance, but then one should be able to walk
in and pick up the file.
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~RT
The truth lies somewhere between Ragnar and LASIKtruth
Two sides of the same coin
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