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Subject: Re: Myopia Surgery
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Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 23:59:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  5 23:59:05 1984
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> Does anyone have information on the surgerical procedure Radical Keratotomy
> which is used to correct nearsightedness?...

A friend of mine had this surgery and had very good results.
He works for IBM (systems engineer/marketing) and their insurance
company reclassified the surgery as non-experimentive so he got it done
for free.  In fact, just about everybody in the sales office that wore
glasses got the surgery done for free.  Aparently, nobody had problems
with the surgery.  Some people had better results than others; that is
a couple of the people still needed some eyesight correction after the
surgery, but the needed correction was much less.  Most of the people
could throw away their glasses/contacts.

They do it one eye at a time and patch up the eye for a few days after
the surgery is done.  There is some discomfort, but understand it's not
terribly painful.
				-- bob

P.S.  If you can figure out how to mail to IBM's VNET (first tell me how)
	then mail to him directly at SCURREY@DALVMIC1 and ask him how the
	procedure went.
-- 
Bob Tomlinson - dspo!tomlin@LANL  or  ucbvax!unmvax!lanl!dspo!tomlin
Los Alamos National Laboratory - E-10/Data Systems
Los Alamos, New Mexico  -  (505) 667-8495