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August 15th, 2010 by admin | Filed under Uncategorized.Since LASIK surgery has been so popular, many doctors started offering it. That’s good for us, the potential patients. It gives us a wide array of possible eye surgeons to choose from.
So it’s up to us to choose well. To do that, we need to prepare a list of good questions to ask our potential doctors. Then we should set up a series of interviews with the best candidates.
You can find names of LASIK surgeons by:
Asking friends and acquaintances
Asking your family doctor for a referral, or your regular eye doctor
Looking at advertisements or the phone book (but see under The First Principle!)
Contacting the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) ( aao.org/)
The first principle
The thing we shouldn’t compromise on is quality. How can we trust a doctor who puts his profit ahead of our eyesight? Some khannainstitute.com/lasik.html LASIK facilities advertise low prices and this may at first look attractive.
Caveat emptor – buyer beware!
A facility which charges low fees has to make up for those low fees by:
· Processing large numbers of patients as quickly as possible
· Purchasing cheap equipment
· Buying or leasing an old, cheaper laser
· Re-using things which should be fresh for each patient, such as latex gloves and microkeratome blades
· Autoclaving (sterilizing) equipment less often
· Paying lower salaries, which means hiring less skilled staff
· Giving you less surgeon time, since surgeon time is expensive, being so highly skilled
· Omitting parts of the initial examination of your eyes to determine if you’re a good candidate for LASIK
So it’s best to resist those low prices and instead look among the facilities where surgeon time is given more freely and no corners are cut.
Some questions to ask your candidates
1. Is he actively associated with an academic medical center?
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