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Broken Eyes · **Joined:** Sat Nov 26, 2005 7:23 am **Posts:** 3109

EuroTimes
January, 2006

http://www.escrs.com/Publications/Eurot ... resent.pdf

“You can tell the pioneers from the arrows in their backs” joked Marguerite
McDonald, MD, clinical professor of ophthalmology at Tulane University, to
EuroTimes.

Broken Eyes · **Joined:** Sat Nov 26, 2005 7:23 am **Posts:** 3109

http://www.escrs.com/Publications/Eurot ... resent.pdf

EuroTimes
January, 2006

Howard Fine, MD

Quote:

However, there is a balance between the need to innovate, to aspire to a grand vision, and the need to ‘first do no harm’.

Broken Eyes · **Joined:** Sat Nov 26, 2005 7:23 am **Posts:** 3109

Eric D. Donnenfeld, MD: "When there are large gray areas or your views are discrepant with the norm, please keep your opinion to yourself and outside of a court of law. We should not be held to today’s standards in a malpractice event that took place several years ago."

http://www.crstoday.com/PDF%20Articles/ ... wsuit.html

Broken Eyes · **Joined:** Sat Nov 26, 2005 7:23 am **Posts:** 3109

http://www.crstoday.com/PDF%20Articles/ ... ordan.html

Lee T. Nordan, MD: "It has taken us more than half of this decade to learn the risk factors associated with a LASIK flap. Now, I believe that we should all be aware of them."

Bill · **Joined:** Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:06 pm **Posts:** 306

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 18,00.html

Quote:

As an optometrist, I am not recommending this procedure. History will teach us that the cornea is not a structure we can mess around with. The risks (e.g., current surgical mishaps and potentially devastating long-term complications) are simply not worth it.

CLAYTON Y. GUSHIKEN, O.D. Honolulu

Quote:

Treating myopia with corneal surgery is like treating obesity with liposuction. Corneal surgery is an elective procedure that carries the risk of serious and permanent complications.

High tech may be glamorous, but it is not always the best medicine.

JULIE RALLS, M.D. Newport Beach, Calif.

Broken Eyes · **Joined:** Sat Nov 26, 2005 7:23 am **Posts:** 3109

James J. Salz, MD

Quote:

...I have heard bilateral LASIK advocates seriously state that this is one reason to do the two eyes together, so that the patient can’t compare the LASIK eye with the contact lens eye!

www drsalz.com/bilateral_lasik.htm

Bill · **Joined:** Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:06 pm **Posts:** 306

Robert K. Maloney, MD

Quote:

One of the things that has been very striking to me is how my most angry patients often have pretty good results and often my patients with the worst results are relatively benign and trusting.

www.eyeworld.org/article.php?sid=1180

Eye · **Joined:** Mon Nov 14, 2005 10:28 am **Posts:** 844

LASIK surgeon who ruined one eye of his patient, advice to the patient:

Quote:

"Maybe it is better to forget that you HAVE that eye"

kaleyedoscope · **Joined:** Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:13 pm **Posts:** 214

http://www.osnsupersite.com/view.asp?rID=18428

"What is interesting about the Baby Boomers is that they are now between the ages of 42 and 60. They are going to develop presbyopia and they are going to develop cataracts for the most part, and that is good news. The even better news is when you look at their financial situation. They are generally past their peak debt and are moving into their peak net worth in spending and investments. Thus, these are good tail-wind dynamics for you as surgeons."

R Brown · **Joined:** Fri Aug 04, 2006 4:27 pm **Posts:** 36

"I equate SurgicalEyes to a ant on the ass of a cow I pass by going 50 in my sports car."

Glenn Hagele
Fake Patient Advocate
Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance

Broken Eyes · **Joined:** Sat Nov 26, 2005 7:23 am **Posts:** 3109

Mark G. Speaker, MD:

"Criticism of care from another doctor is often a trigger for a lawsuit," Dr. Speaker said.

Source:
OSN SuperSite Top Story 10/20/2006
Complications never fully eliminated, despite unprecedented technologies
http://www.osnsupersite.com/view.asp?rID=18863

In other words, "resist the temptation to criticize the work of our colleagues when we are offering a second opinion to a patient with a suboptimal result". McDonald, 1999.

Broken Eyes · **Joined:** Sat Nov 26, 2005 7:23 am **Posts:** 3109

http://www.osnsupersite.com/view.asp?rid=19273
OSN SuperSite Top Story 11/11/2006

Marguerite B. McDonald, MD, "
"I'm not the only person who thinks maybe we should hang up our microkeratomes,".

Broken Eyes · **Joined:** Sat Nov 26, 2005 7:23 am **Posts:** 3109

Lee T. Nordan, MD:

Quote:

In my experience, the odds that an eye with a corneal thickness of 500µm will develop ectasia postoperatively are a lot higher than 5%. I would estimate a risk of between 50% and 75%.

Source: www.crstoday.com/PDF%20Articles/1006/CR ... Nordan.php

Broken Eyes · **Joined:** Sat Nov 26, 2005 7:23 am **Posts:** 3109

"Pupil size is the moderator of night vision problems." Glenn Hagele, fake patient advocate, founder of rubber stamp 'for payment' LASIK surgeon referral service.

"The pupil isn't a moderator, it's a damned amplifier." Ron Link, Patient Advocate, Founder of the Surgical Eyes Foundation.

Broken Eyes · **Joined:** Sat Nov 26, 2005 7:23 am **Posts:** 3109

http://www.escrs.org/Publications/Eurot ... custom.pdf

Steven E. Wilson, MD:

"You can’t have 20/15 vision with a 20/40 brain."

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As if the patient has a faulty brain that can't adapt to crappy vision...

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