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admin wrote: This French documentary reports a mirror image of what's happening in the UK, Ireland, US, Spain, Holland, India - and in every other country where refractive surgery is performed...

Thanks Sasha for sharing this video.
Here in France too a lot of patients develop complications after their eye lasik surgery.
We are trying to warn of the urgent need to regulate refractive eye surgery.
Legally this procedure is described as ‘comfort' surgery, so there is no concern for benefits/risks.
The industry claims 100% success but what about the high % of patients with bad outcomes?
They are ignored by all surgeons and industry bosses of laser eye surgery in total contempt of the Hippocratic Oath not to injure anybody.

Oh dear, Steve Schallhorn disseminating disingenuous propaganda across India

Steve's confused me here though, because, as OE's Global Medical Director, why does he not pass this message down to the optoms etc… who sell surgery to people in their late teens?



As for this...



Simply laughable, as many of OE’s damaged patients can no longer drive at night, let alone travel in space, and I know of three airline pilots who had to quit flying after surgery - all currently in litigation!

Do add your comment - I have!



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This French documentary reports a mirror image of what's happening in the UK, Ireland, US, Spain, Holland, India - and in every other country where refractive surgery is performed...


www.dailymotion.com/video/x4jjfhl

Without government regulation and with no official record of the numbers damaged

www.aspokesmansaid.com/healthcare/storie...costly-op-was-needed

Listen to BBC Radio 4, 'You & Yours' @ 12.15pm today…



The Optical Express Lifetime Aftercare (lack of) issue will be discussed on the programme @ approx 12.40pm.

Scheduled for last Wednesday this was postponed due to legal reasons.

However it’s been worth waiting for as more details emerged in the interim.

A big thank you to the many people who contributed and helped BBC researchers with information - and to those who agreed to speak on air.

Listen here @ 33:24 mins
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07bt4qt

NB: For overseas followers unable to access this link I will publish on YouTube asap

I hadn't seen this - must google my name more often



www.wddty.com/magazine/2016/march/the-ne...ser-eye-surgery.html

www.aspokesmansaid.com/healthcare/storie...e-aftercare--promise



www.aspokesmansaid.com/healthcare/storie...care-for-life-claims

The truth WILL out

Don't miss it
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Thanks to Bobby Qureshi @ the London Eye Hospital for making a valuable contribution to my campaign with his BBC Radio 4 interview yesterday!

Listen closely when Bobby tells presenter Winifred Robertson that offering money to keep a patient from talking to the media is, “Standard practice in the healthcare industry”!

And he believes it “fair” that a damaged patient should not be allowed to speak publicly about their treatment because the GMC rules do not allow him to discuss individual patients.

Weak argument, because damaged patients are perfectly happy to give their permission to waive confidentiality if they’re talking to the media, to allow the provider/surgeon the right of reply - as did all my Optimax/OE/Ultralase clients who’ve given interviews to the press over the years!

Obviously reading from notes Bobby Qureshi claimed “One in ten people” who experience cloudy vision following routine cataract surgery will require subsequent treatment, but because the technology of his 'Hubble Implants’ is "far better than anything that’s gone before” only "one or two in perhaps a hundred” require subsequent treatment.

He presumably sourced these wobbly and unsubstantiated statistics from the same database as those he gave Winifred, when he told her that only “a handful” of people were disappointed with the results. Yet after a little encouragement Bobby admitted that "perhaps a dozen or so” were disappointed, actually ‘four handfuls’ if you pay attention to his numbers, assuming 5 digits per hand!

Incidentally, somewhat ironic that Bobby Qureshi jumped on my bandwagon last year and claimed to support regulation!
www.londoneyehospital.com/news-article/l...r-official-register/

Winifred queried the five star ‘testimonials’ on Bobby's website, but what she should have asked is where are the negative reviews?

Hand on heart, I can tell you that Harvey Marshall is not the only person who has complained to the London Eye Hospital about his treatment, and I challenge Bobby Qureshi to dispute this.

After listening to the 'You and Yours' interview I called Zulfy, marketing manager at London Eye Hospital.

I asked if they would publish the BBC interview on their website, as Bobby Qureshi told Winifred they ought to when she asked.

Zulfy told me they do lots of radio interviews and don’t publish them all. I argued that this one was different as it’s negative.

I also pointed out that Bobby had offered damaged patient Harvey Marshall £30,000 to keep quiet, which I considered serious!

As for his "sophisticated Galilean telescope", I suggest Bobby should save it to look at the stars.


www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0735q3z