Today I had an appointment with a Dr. Oster at Scripps. She acknowledged the truth of my statement - that there are no mature solutions for the chronic eye pain which onset in my left eye at the time of my LASIK surgery. She said that surgery to correct my left eye, whose crossing resulted in double vision 3 months after my LASIK surgery, would have a significant risk of exacerbating my chronic eye pain.
Of course, she referred me to a specialist. One such specialist at Scripps is "Doctor" Mitchell Friedlaender, the head of the division of ophthalmology at Scripps and the director of the Vision Destruction program at Scripps. They call it the Refractive Surgery Program. I call it the Vision Destruction Program.
When I saw Friedlaender, I had read one of his articles, where he was described as a great Harvard educated dry eye specialist. I went to see him about my dry eye, and he had nothing to say - other than what a great doctor my LASIK surgeon "Doctor" Michael Gordon is.
In other words, "Doctor" Friedlaender regularly performs a surgery which is acknowledged to cause dry eye problems. He has no solutions which solve the significant dry eye problems which occurs in a great percentage of LASIK patients. Painful dry eye problems.
"Doctor" Friedlaender is on a list of America's best doctors.
He is supposed to be a dry eye specialist.
Yet, when I went to see him, he had nothing to offer besides punctal plugs. He didn't even mention some of the remedies he mentions in one of his medical articles.
He didn't seem like a dry eye specialist to me.
The marketing literature at his clinic says that he has done hundreds of LASIK surgeries.
LASIK surgery frequently results in painful dry eye and exacerbates the symptoms of ocular surface disease.
Ocular Surgery News
Special Meeting Report
Dec. 15, 1999
TITLE: "LASIK-dry eye connection gets attention at AAO-PAAO"
"At this year's meeting, there was an emerging recognition of an important complication of laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) -- postoperative dry eye.
"During his keynote address in a session on LASIK complications and their management at the Refractive Surgery Subspecialty Day, Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, noted the the overall frequency of complications after LASIK is decreasing. Severe vision loss after LASIK is now a rare occurrence."
"However, he said, dry eye is being seen with increasing frequency, is making patients very unhappy and must be recognized and treated aggressively.
"Doctor" Mitchell Friedlaender has already denied me an Orbscan. Now I need a corneal confocal microscope exam. I want to see a specialist who will give me a comprehensive corneal confocal microscope exam.
That "comprehensive" part is important. I have witnessed doctors withhold pictures of lamellar interface debris resulting from LASIK from their patients. Such microscope images are evidence of a negligent surgery, and evidence of a common result of LASIK.
Metallic lamellar interface debris is acknowledged to be a common LASIK result by a very experienced corneal confocal microscope specialist at the Casey Eye Institute in Oregon.
Metallic lamellar interface debris is acknowledged to be a common LASIK result by the "head surgeon" associated with a publicly-held LASIK corporation.
Enclosed please find a list of links to Refractive Surgery Information Associations. These are each websites run by people who don't get paid to say what they say. They say what they say because they are refractive surgery patients, and they know lots of other refractive surgery patients.
If a Doctor moves his patients towards greater health, I call him/her a Doctor.
If it is my opinion that a doctor has sacrificed the health of patients for financial gain and/or professional gain - then I refer to that person as a "Doctor". A businessman first, a "Doctor" in title only.
I use the term "Patients" in quotes because most of the useful medical assistance I have received - the anti-inflammatory for my eye-pain, the Salagen to increase tear-flow - were suggestions that came from other patients - resulting in a prescription written by my general practitioner. In other words, the patients I am meeting during my refractive surgery experience seem to know more about ophthalmology as it pertains to complications of refractive surgery, than the refractive surgeons themselves. You be the judge.
LASIKDisaster.com
Ron Link brought us together in the first
place. Surgical Eyes
This one is hosted by a lawyer who just
got an in-depth education in ophthalmology. LASIKInfoCenter.net
Brent Hanson is a character, a programmer
- and, he has a beef with TLC. Brentt Hanson's Website
http://www.lasikcourt.com/tlc/brenthanson/
Websites Run By Doctors
I dare you to ask "Doctor" William Trattler
2 questions:
1. Is LASIK Safe ?
2. What is his definition of "Safe"
?
In any case, "Doctor" Trattler hosts -
Ask
LASIK Docs
Doctor Walman hosts the website at - American
Eye
USENET NEWSGROUPS
sci.med.vision
alt.lasik-eyes
Sincerely,
~ Roger ~
Roger Bratt