Lasik / flying?

Richard Riley wrote:

gatt wrote:

Thank you everybody for your information! Still haven't decided to make the
jump, but I've yet to hear a real horror story so I'll continue to look into
it.

Looks like it's getting pretty competitive, down to under $300 per eye.


It's not something I would go bargain shopping for. My opthamologist
has a nice business patching up people that did it on the cheap. If
they're charging less that $1500 an eye, they're cutting corners.

How do you cut corners with LASIK since most of the hard work is
automated? Are there better and worse LASIK machines? I thought all
had to be FDA approved.


Matt

How do you cut corners with LASIK since most of the hard work is
automated? Are there better and worse LASIK machines? I thought all
had to be FDA approved.

Off the top of my head - don't have a laser tech on staff. Use the
laser tube itself for more than 1000 procedures - it's still within FDA
spec, but not as accurate as it was earlier in it's life. Use a laser
that's 5 years old (same thing). Hire people that graduated at the
bottom of their class, from a foreign med school.