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FDA to review Lasik surgery

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Government is good. I’m happy to see the FDA looking into things like this.

Spurred by complaints of adverse events, the Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday that they would launch a multi-year study to examine the potential impact on quality of life from Lasik laser-vision correction surgery. Lasik surgery permanently reshapes the cornea with a laser but consumers face a lack of reliable data about the frequency of troubling side-effects, such as dry eyes, halos, and blurry vision.

These are the reasons I’ve never seriously considered getting Lasik surgery done. As long as I can use eye glasses I’ll be fine with that. However, if the FDA finds that Lasik is safe for most people then that is still good for society as it upholds the constant progression of modern science.

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Written by Jason Gooljar

October 16th, 2009 at 8:28 pm

Posted in Healthcare

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  • John Minehan

    Yes, the government is looking into that which it has not yet screwed up or made more expensive.

  • Jason Gooljar

    Well, as opposed to when something is privatized? Then it becomes more expensive. They tried to privatize water in some countries you know. Blackwater is essentially a privatized military and look at how bad they are.

    I’m a firm believer in the commons. I believe that there are some things so essential to society that they are to be held in common for everyone. They are not to be privatized. I would not privatize the police or fire departments of municipalities for example. Actually fire departments were started as privatized affairs a long time ago. It did not hold up to well I gather.