Googling Lasik Surgery
Posted by Tom in Blog.To start my quest I googled “lasik surgery” and the first listing was a FDA government site. I don’t usually consider government sites for this type of information, but I figured they would be unbiased and devoid of any marketing agenda.
Once I started looking around I was surprised how much lasik and other types of eye surgery information there was. They created a full lasik sugery info site for the public? Seems a little odd and makes me wonder what other types of information sites they have built.
I really wasn’t planning on reading the whole site until I caught a phrase on the first page: “A knife, called a microkeratome, is used to cut a flap in the cornea.” Hold on, there is a real knife involved? I envisioned a human surgeon standing over me carving up my eye with a scalpel.
That doesn’t sound right. I know how much my hands move just writing, I couldn’t imagine a lasik surgeon having that much steadier of hands to make small incisions on my eyes. I am hoping they are using the word “knife” to describe a laser, not an actual stainless steel knife. Although I don’t know why I trust a laser in my eye more than a knife. Maybe because you don’t see evil surgeons in horror movies dissecting people with laser beams. It just seems safer.
So now I guess I will have to read the whole thing and figure out what this so called knife is all about.
