| Brent Hanson - LASIKFRAUD.com 2005-09-24, 2:40 pm |
| R. C.,
Plaintiff,
vs.
Nicholas C. Caro, M.D.,
Nicholas C. Caro, M.D., S.C.
& Associates and St. George
Corrective Vision Center,
Defendants.
In her ophthalmology - eye - surgical malpractice lawsuit filed in
1999, Mrs. C claimed that during her treatment consisting of multiple
refractive surgeries to both eyes at St. George Corrective Vision
Center between August of 1993 and September of 1997, Dr. Nicholas Caro
and/or other personnel affiliated with him, among other things,
performed two surgeries that have a well known poor success rate
(hexagonal keratotomy and/or automated lamellar keratoplasty), failed
to properly inform her about the experimental nature of each surgery
performed which ultimately necessitated corneal transplantation, and
also didn't inform her that an excimer laser, apparently manufactured
by PDI Laser, was not approved by the FDA and that the FDA had denied
Dr. Caro's application to use it, and went ahead and used it on her
anyway.
File documentation indicates that Mrs. C also underwent an intrastromal
keratoplasty, bilateral LASIK surgery, and phototherapeutic
keratectomy.
Interestingly, Mrs. C's lawyer also accused Dr. Caro of making 20 false
statements during his discovery deposition and by giving false and
misleading answers to written discovery by claiming that he had
received an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) from the FDA
allowing him to legally use the PDI laser, or that his own attorneys
told him that it had been approved, when if fact his application had
been rejected by them.
This suit was settled for a confidential amount on August 25, 2003.
Source: www.malpracticeweb.com/caro_c.htm
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