From: "John Beamish" 

I was generally sceptical of laser surgery (and, as it turned out, so was
my eye doctor).  But over time, reading all the literature, I gradually
changed my position.  When I mentioned that I was more comfortable with the
procedure to my eye doctor, she said that quite recently she, too, was now
telling some patients they should consider it.  We had a long discussion
about pros and cons and, as she pointed out to me, my eyes were now in a
situation where I would still have to wear glasses to read (which I do most
of the day) so I'd still be wearing glasses after the surgery. In the end,
I didn't get them done.

A final thought:  while it's true that the failure rate is well below 1%,
if you're the person then the failure rate is 100%.

On Wed, 30 May 2007 10:23:12 -0400, Antti Kurenniemi
 wrote:

> I got the paperwork today: 7000+ shots of laser into my eyes over a
> period
> of 8 seconds. That's scary, good thing they didn't tell me that
> beforehand
> . The new thingamajick monitors eye movement during the operation, and
> has a very low (below 1%) failure rate, and of those failures very few
> are
> sever (i.e. cannot be fixed with another operation).
>

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