Refractive Surgery News

Researchers Admit to High Incidence of Long-term Pain Following Refractive Surgery

Neural Basis of Sensation in Intact and Injured Corneas  Experimental Eye Research 78 (2004) 513–525 Carlos Belmonte, M.  Carmen Acosta, Juana Gallar Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Herna´ndez–CSIC, Apdo correos 18, 03550 San Juan de Alicante, Spain Abstract A renewed interest in...
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TLC V.P. of Marketing Describes Co-management Payments to Optometrists As "Marketing Costs"

What’s the Right Price For LASIK? Walt Bethke, Managing Editor “Comanagement costs overlap with marketing costs,” says Anna Austin, vice president of marketing for TLC Vision. “If you’re comanaging some of your refractive patients, obviously you may pay more to the comanager than if you...
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The Promise of Refractive Surgery: A Promise Not Kept

An Insiders Journal on the Evolution and Misinformation of Refractive Surgery Dedicated to: And the thousands of others whose quality of life has suffered greatly as a result of believing the professionally communicated promise of refractive surgery Table of Contents Section Page Introduction 2 Refractive...
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Appeals Court Overturns Judge's Order for New Trial in Pilot's Case

The Arizona Court of Appeals has overturned a judge's order for a new trial in the case of a former airline pilot who sued for damage done by LASIK eye surgery. The decision reinstates the $4 million verdict, the largest award ever given in a...
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T.V. Show Compares LASIK surgeons to Online Perverts

`Law & Order' puts Patriot Act on trial Thank heavens for sweeps. Only during these arbitrarily chosen months on Nielsen's calendar do I learn the truth about online perverts and fly-by-night LASIK surgeons on our suddenly perked-up local news. Also, I get to watch episodes...
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N.J. Supreme Court Says Doctors, Lawyers Can't Be Sued for Consumer Fraud

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Doctors, lawyers and other professionals cannot be sued for false advertising under New Jersey's consumer fraud law because it wasn't written to cover them, the state Supreme Court ruled. The decision issued Monday overturns a ruling made in March 2003...
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Laser Eye Surgery Complaints Double

Negligence claims involving laser eye surgery have more than doubled in the last six years, according to the UK's largest insurer for doctors. The Medical Defence Union members said that while some of the claims were over faulty surgery, many more centred on patients' "unrealistic...
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