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To: Walter in HK who wrote (6684)	4/11/1999 2:05:00 PM
From: Michael Burry	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78594

OFF TOPIC OFF TOPIC OFF TOPIC OFF TOPIC IMO IMO IMO IMO IMO IMO IMO still playing ice hockey (she was the Captain of the MIT Women's Hockey Team) and not wanting to loose her contacts on the ice. I can't express how much that makes me cringe. People who are prone to trauma/violent increases in intracranial pressure such as hockey players are NOT the proper candidates here. Fine, destabilize the cornea and go run and slam your head into something. There is no cure for a ruptured globe. Horrible horrible horrible. There is a divide here between ethical ophthalmologists, and those trying to replace the income they lost when medicare cut reimbursements for cataract surgery. These procedures and variations are NOT NEW. They have been marketed to the masses because of a drop in physicians' incomes. And now, on a mass scale, with new variations that have not been tested long-term. Phen-Fen comes to mind. I'm very sorry but this is something I feel very strongly about. Everything is a trade-off. I just think it's sad because there's asymmetric information here. The patient doesn't have the right information in the right context. And some physicians are taking advantage of that in a big way. It used to be the cardiac cath jockeys and the cataract jockeys. Then it was the physicians opening Phen-Fen clinics. Now this is it. Everything is a trade-off, you're right. But the trade here isn't fair. Mike