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THE PROBLEM WITH REFRACTIVE SURGERY
Guest editorial in the online journal EC Ophthalmology Having been a refractive surgeon for 30 years and having performed over 30,000 procedures in that period of time, after getting my medical degree from Columbia Medical School, completing my residency at Harvard’s Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and my Corneal Transplantation/Refractive Surgery Fellowship at Emory, I have…
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Contacts are worse
To The Editor: Draft guidelines by the FDA warning about the risks of LASIK complications arefundamentally flawed, because they don’t mention alternatives — and relative risks. Most patients getting LASIK wear contacts, which are not risk-free. People in contactsoften do not clean them properly, or replace them less often than recommended and“top off” solutions to…
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We’re the cowards ensuring that another Uvalde will happen
To The Editor for an EDITORIAL NOT A LETTER: Recently released video footage proves cops waited over one hour to storm the Uvalde gunman, so pundits are now calling them cowards. But let’s put ourselves in the exact situation: You arrive with a partner within 3 minutes, handguns drawn, but are met with a hail…
