Dr. Stephen Updegraff is advertising “Fly in/Fly out” LASIK surgery on his website. Seriously? Fly in/fly out surgery?
We have seen some dangerous LASIK marketing gimmicks, but we are truly appalled by this.
Read one patient’s experience with fly in/fly out LASIK surgery with another doctor:
Pilot Crashes Into Hospital Emergency Room After Undergoing Lasik
Excerpt:
I started my research into the procedure itself and its possible side effects by locating a good surgeon. I found an eye surgeon who came highly recommended. He had performed numerous LASIK surgeries, including on colleagues. This surgeon was considered to be in the top 5 percent of the world’s best eye surgeons…
I was rushed to the emergency room at a Canadian hospital. There, the surgeon removed the remnants of the damaged lens and sutured the iris and cornea. I was without vision in that eye for more than 7 months…
Several of the ophthalmologists I saw for these repairs remarked, “You are lucky that more damage was not done and that the surgeon performed a good fix-up job.” Somehow that did not really comfort me…
Unfortunately, my troubles did not end there…