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Biotech / Medical : VISX
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To: Jim Mac who wrote (1293)8/28/1999 12:50:00 PM
From: Carmine Cammarosano  Read Replies (1) of 1754
 
"And if they are convinced by the medical professionals that PRK is inferior to LASIK (which is simply not true), than this large segment is likely to do nothing. I believe this industry will top out far below its potential if LASIK continues to be pushed for this very reason. I've heard dozens of people who are good candidates express severe reservations about letting a doctor cut a flap...it makes them very uneasy, especially when they know it's unnecessary."

Jim, patients who have had PRK on one eye are asking to have LASIK on the other eye because they meet patients in the waiting room who have had LASIK and find out that they healed faster and with less pain...they come in saying I want that other "laser surgery"...although, you and I know it is the same laser that did both procedures...PRK works, but patients want LASIK, i.e. much more comfortable...Jim, the demand is coming from the patients and not MDs...VISX wins either way...

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