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To: ratan lal who wrote (5159)	8/23/1999 2:46:00 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Respond to of 54805

I'm glad you're surgery went well for you, and I was not assuming that you just jumped into it (I doubt they let you do that at Stanford :). My point was that, pricepoint is not the only issue to gaining widespread adoption. I am speaking from an "average Joe" perspective (precisely the type of person that will need to be convinced). I know one person (female, late 20s) who had RK with mixed results (symptoms: blurriness at the edges or at night developed after 2 or 3 years) several years ago. I remember hearing her story then and I can say, it scared me! I suppose the new techniques have been greatly refined, but I personally will wait for the year 2010 version. Also, I know that VISX has done well in the market, but I wonder to what extent litigation risk is being priced in. The thing is, while they have instruments that can measure your lens refractive index, etc., vision is still, obviously, subjective. I can just imagine, around 2005, when 10 million people have had this surgery--and obviously some cases will not work out for myriad reasons that may or may not be attributable to the technology used--some hot shot lawyer gets that whole list of patients and starts a massive class action. The weak point there to me is, while you may have only a few cut and dried cases of outright blindness, loads of people could claim "impairment" on subjective grounds. Just a thought from rightfield, wearing my 20/100 glasses for ten more years.