In recent years, more and more people are going for Lasik Treatment to correct their shortsightedness or other eye problems.
There are tons of advertisements and happy stories on Lasik Treatment. The cost is also getting lower, doctors are confident that the risk of complications is getting lower and, the impression is, more and more, and everybody is putting his trust on Lasik.
But Sunday Times, 7 Dec 08, is kind enough to provide the other side of the story -- samples of Bad News.
The article on page 34 "Lasik clinic's hard sell left her confused and fuming" is a good reminder that the risk is not that low.
An accompanying article by Catherine Lee on the same page:
"Is Lasik surgery really safe?
I once intended to go for such a procedure but changed my mind after talking to some friends and colleagues.
One colleague had a friend who went for Lasik surgery 10 years ago.
Everything was fine until about two to three years ago, when she developed problems -first in one eye, then the other. She could not regain her sight totally even after some operations, and ended up blind in one eye and partially blind in the other..."
Please note that when someone wants to earn your money by selling a product or service to you, his job is to tell you one side of the story only, the side that sells, not the side that don't sell.
Go and find out the other side of the story too.
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