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Re: Sad *true* story of this guy legally blinded by lasik, got cornea transplant and b
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Tom Lucas wrote:
> "Ace" <acemanvx@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1153815623.945635.230670@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Further bizarre example of random disaster -
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/5208460.stm - including a video
> for the ghoulish.
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> Puts it all in perspective really.
freak accidents are unfortunate, they can happen anytime, anywhere. In
her case, the freak accident happened when the microkeratome slipped
and chopped her cornea off. But you have to remember someone looking to
get lasik assumes *all* risks. Anything can happen, you are taking a
chance. Its like someone playing with fire, he can get burnt. Or it
could be someone bungee jumping. The microkeratome is a knife and
accidents can happen when you take a knife to the eye/cornea. Welcome
back! Hows your lasik holding? How is your vision now and how seldom
are you wearing glasses
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