UK watchdog berates laser eye surgery "reality"
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Many of the 100,000 people who undergo laser-based corrective eye surgery in the UK every year are doing so under misapprehensions about the safety and performance of the procedure. So warns the Consumers' Association, in a report published today (February 11 2003), citing allegedly "wildly misleading" or "simply wrong" claims by providers of the procedure, regarding safety warnings and complication rates.
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