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Author Re: Sad *true* story of this guy legally blinded by lasik, got cornea transplant and b
Ragnar

2006-07-24, 4:27 pm

Whether the story is true really is not relevant. Out of 10 million
procedures.. one would expect some errors. What is astonishing is how
FEW errors there have been with LASIK. It is far safer than any other
surgery that has ever been peformed. It is the only surgery that
nobody has died from.


On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:13:31 +0100, "Tom Lucas"
<news@REMOVEautoTOflameREPLY.clara.co.uk> wrote:

>
>"Ace" <acemanvx@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:1153672407.456234.297610@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
>
>Why would the microkeratome have a setting that would cut the cornea
>off? It's like having a setting on a toaster that burns the toast - it
>doesn't make sense.
>
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