| Tom Lucas 2006-07-25, 8:26 am |
| "Ace" <acemanvx@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Ragnar wrote:
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> My intellegence is high enough to realize the fallacy in your
> statement. A missle is war or terrorism and is irrevelent to lasik.
> Missles can target anything. When someone gets lasik, only the
> revelent
> things pertaining to lasik count. Complications can happen before,
> during or after lasik is done
I think what Ragnar was getting at is that this person was just unlucky
and that that bad luck manifested itself through Lasik. They could have
been struck by lightning or mauled by a pack of disgruntled hamsters but
it just happened that their number came up on the Lasik table.
Basically, this example shouldn't be given as defending or decrying
Lasik because it doesn't tell you anything about the surgery, only that
surgeons are also subject to human factors. However, surgeons are
amongst the most highly trained people on earth and their error rate is
accordingly low. You have a much better chance of falling victim to
human error on the way to the clinic.
In fact, my brother-in-law's best friend has just experienced this kind
of freak incident. He and his mother were standing at a bus-stop in
Spain when a car ploughed into the queue and killed his mother and took
his leg off. His father had briefly walked away to light a cigarette and
was untouched. This is the same kind of random disaster that took off
that patient's cornea and is not something you can prepare or plan for.
Further bizarre example of random disaster -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/5208460.stm - including a video
for the ghoulish.
Puts it all in perspective really.
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