Ask any LASIK patient if he or she was given the FDA-mandated Patient Information Booklet prior to surgery. The answer is usually "no". Companies that manufacture lasers for use in LASIK surgery are required by the FDA to provide Patient Information Booklets to LASIK surgeons. In turn, LASIK surgeons are required to provide the booklets to prospective patients prior to surgery. Patient Infomation Booklets provide warnings and other information for patients to consider before consenting to undergo LASIK. Below...
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MIAMI, FLORIDA -- A new study published in the July, 2008 edition of Archives of Ophthalmology demonstrates an elevated risk of suicide in people with visual impairment.1 The psychosocial and health consequences of ocular conditions that lead to visual impairment (VI) are broad and include impaired activities of daily living, social isolation, cognitive impairment, impaired functional status and functional decline, increased dependency on others, increased risk of motor vehicle crashes, falls and fractures, poor self-rated health, and depression. Increased mortality...
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LASIK surgeons fail to comply with FDA reporting requirement -------------------- After recklessly performing millions of LASIK surgeries over the past decade with little to no policing of its poor surgical practices and deceptive advertising, the LASIK industry is feeling the pinch. LASIK volumes have plummeted after a flurry of bad press and public outcry of widespread problems with LASIK. But this doesn't help the patients who have been needlessly harmed by an unnecessary, irreversible surgery. When a patient suffers a...
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