Preceding the American Academy of Ophthalmology Meeting, Jennifer Morse M.D. who worked with patients at the Navy Refractive Surgery Center in San Diego, concluded that a psychiatric examination may be able to identify some of the post-operative dissatisfied patients.
Three hundred and nine patients who were scheduled to undergo a LASIK procedure received a questionnaire before surgery and 6 months after surgery.
Dr Morse concluded:
Uncorrected visual acuity only accounted for 82% of all the dissatisfied post-op cases.”
Dr. Morse stressed during her presentation that these people are a very important subset of the population because these are the people that are talking about the procedure in the community and can even potentially file lawsuits.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThe key to any successful procedure is patient expectation. As long as patient expectations are reasonable, and the surgeon has properly articulated the risks, and outcomes, LASIK surgery is indeed a very good option for permanent vision correction.
The key to any successful procedure is patient expectation. As long as patient expectations are reasonable, and the surgeon has properly articulated the risks, and outcomes, LASIK surgery is indeed a very good option for permanent vision correction.
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