LASIK Links

  1. Deceptive Marketing Practices
  2. Legal Resources
  3. Patient Experiences
  4. Doctors Who Care
  5. Medical Forums
  6. Investor Forums

Deceptive Marketing Practices

LasikPimp.com Exposes Glenn Hagele, a High School Graduate who runs a certification mill for refractive surgeons.
Refractive Surgery News Inside stories from the laser eye surgery industry: LASIK, PRK, LASEK, and ICLs.
LASIK Disaster Includes a personal story of one patient's experience.
LASIK Truth History of the FDA's involvement with the lasik industry.  This site was taken down after the web site operator received threats of a lawsuit from two doctors.  The web site has resurfaced here.
Eye Know Why  I Know Why Refractive Surgeons Wear Glasses. This site continually disappears, and then reappears with a new web site address as someone new always decides to revive it.
Wake Up to LASIK  An optometrist details the dark side of the lasik industry.
The LASIK Report

Legal Resources

Vision Simulations Siimulates blurry and double vision, ghosting, halos, starbursts, and glare caused by eye injury, disease, or LASIK.
Lasik Litigation Legal referral service.

Patient Experiences

Life After Lasik EyeForDesign.com
Lasik Memorial EyeForFreedom.com
Lasik Reality  FlawedLasik.com
Dr. Robert Maloney LasikComplications.com
Dr. Eric Donnenfeld LasikDecision.com
Refractive Surgery Grand Rounds LasikLiberty.com
Dr. Thomas Tooma NevyasVMorgan.com
TLC Big Sky Lasercenter My Lasik Surgery Experience by John 
Kirk's LASIK History  Mikki's Vision 
Dr. Michael Gordon  Lasik Letters
Dr. Mitchell Friedlaender Lasik SOS
My LASIK Experience LasikSucks4U   
An Ounce of Prevention

Doctors Who Care

Many lasik surgeons (M.D.s) and optometrists (O.D.s) refuse to help patients who have been damaged by lasik.  Fortunately, there are some surgeons and optometrists who are willing to provide help.  I encountered four such individuals in my quest for visual rehabilitation.

Gelender, Gelender, M.D.     Dallas, Texas
Gerowitz, Rob, O.D.       Palatine, Illinois
Pazandak, Bradford, M.D. Dallas, Texas
Weissman, Alan, O.D. Carrollton, Texas

Medical Forums

Doctor My Eye "The Place to Go When Refractive Surgery Goes Wrong".  Operated by Dr. Kenneth Minarik.
Lasik-Flap.com Bulletin board where patients post complaints about surgeons.
alt.lasik-eye Uncensored newsgroup.  This place is a real sewer.
Eye Floaters Information Center Includes a bulletin board titled Floaters After LASIK Surgery.
Ask Lasik Docs Heavily censored pro-lasik forum operated by Dr. William Trattler.

Investor Forums

Forum - Company  Type of company Stock symbol
Yahoo - LCA Vision (Lasik Plus)      Lasik chain  LCAV
Yahoo - NovaMed Eyecare Lasik chain  NOVA
Yahoo - TLC Vision  Lasik chain  TLCV
Yahoo - Alcon Defective laser manufacturer       ACL