01733553001

It's make like a tree and leave. [***]!

Correct Mark. Nutters. You know the story about the boy that cried wolf, nobody will treat these hypercondriacs with their mental health issues for fear of getting wrongfully accused of wrongdoing and being sued.

It's you people. You people are sick. People like you. People who don't have a clue about anything other than being sick. You people.

Optimax Laser Eye Surgery Ruined My Life:

The Working links!
Optimax patient reviews

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUfzAK0XmEc

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZnwQh3TiZk

Myra Pridham Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRovIcXS1gI

OPTIMAX Laser Eye Surgery RUINED My Life: Medical Director's Negligence/Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKZlNWn5RN8

OPTIMAX Laser Eye Surgery RUINED My Life: Medical Director's Negligence/Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8FYm9KUCKI

OPTIMAX Laser Eye Surgery RUINED My Life: Sasha Rodoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYwgzaWS9HI

Funny how the BBC were all over the Optimax Ruined My Life campaign and then the campaign figurehead John McDonnell is the subject  of a malicious bbc documentary. All of a sudden the tone changes. This is evidence of the corruption within the scummy organisation that the BBC have become.

Of course 100 (replaceable) cars bursting into flames are far more important than ten people's (irreplaceable) eyes being damaged.

My email exchange with Watchdog team this afternoon following my complaint concerning their 'weakdog' cover of Ultralase on 8 October:

From: Sasha Rodoy
Sent: 23 October 2015 14:20
To: Elen Moore
Subject: Re: As discussed, re Ultralase/Optimax
Importance: High

Hi Elen…

I had expected to have heard from Mark by now.

As well as the Watchdog advertorial for Utralase/Optimax on 8 October, I would also like to discuss the significantly high number of emails sent to Watchdog from damaged eye surgery patients spanning 3 yrs, many of which were copied to me.

I hope Mark will find time to call me as this is a major scandal ignored by too many who know about it yet in a position to help expose it.

Thanks,
Sasha
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On 23 Oct 2015, at 15:14, Elen Moore wrote:

Hi Sasha

Mark will be getting back to you today.

Best wishes

Elen
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On 23 Oct 2015, at 18:08, Mark Harrison wrote:

Dear Ms. Rodoy,

Thank you for contacting the programme. We note your concerns with our Ultralase piece and I would like to address your comments.

With regards to the risks associated with laser eye surgery, as part of our broadcast we did outline that some people do require follow-up care after their initial treatment. Additionally, we feel that our statement that the procedure is normally safe is backed up by NHS statistics that demonstrate that complications occur in less than 0.5% of cases in the UK. Regarding the Terms & Conditions- as part of our research we looked into these requirements but were unable to discuss these in detail during our broadcast due to time constraints. Those that have undergone the procedure have the full information on what terms they are expected to have met in their initial documentation.

Thank you for providing us with information on your own case earlier this year. On this occasion we did not have sufficient evidence to focus on damage to eyes during this procedure and chose to focus on the Ultralase Lifetime Guarantee based upon the weight of complaints on this subject to the programme. However, should we look to cover laser eye surgery again in the future we would certainly look to contact you again.

Mark Harrison
Watchdog | BBC One
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On 23 Oct 2015, at 19:08, Sasha Rodoy wrote:

Oh Mark, please!

It wasn’t only me who provided you with info, Watchdog has been bombarded with emails from 1000000s of patients damaged by eye surgery for the last 30-40 years - I have copies of many of these forwarded to me.

Also, I’m in court on 11/12 November v Russell Ambrose t/a Optimax for breach of agreement. Why didn’t your researchers pick that up?

Re "Additionally, we feel that our statement that the procedure is normally safe is backed up by NHS statistics that demonstrate that complications occur in less than 0.5% of cases in the UK.”

Which stats, where? I’m shocked that an investigative programme team did not check facts before simply repeating something that’s presumably been picked off NHS Choices or similar.

Refractive eye surgery is not available on the NHS (only cataract surgery), it is privately controlled and unregulated, and estimated complications after surgery are 0.8-0.9% so how can the NHS provide stats for the private clinics?!

This is a major scandal that I’ve been fighting for 4 years, and John McDonnell will support everything I tell you (copied in)!

Take a look at the recent post on my Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ORML I assure you, Mr Abs is sadly far from a unique case!

Nor does your email make sense as I spoke with Helen a number of times and provided her with a lot of info:

"On 14 Apr 2015, at 15:03, Helen Collins wrote:

Hi, my name is Helen Collins and I work at BBC Television. Please could you give me a call the number below. I am currently doing some research and would like to talk to you about it.
Many thanks
Helen Collins
Producer, BBC Watchdog
Tel: 020___
Email: Helen__"

With respect, you are so uninformed and I really would appreciate a call to discuss in person.

Best wishes,
Sasha
07__
Sasha Rodoy
My Beautiful Eyes
Patient Advocate & Campaign Manager
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I had promised Watchdog that I wouldn't publish any email addresses - can't possibly honor that promise after this!

PLEASE - everyone - email Mark Harrison to ensure that he definitely has "sufficient evidence to focus on damage to eyes"!!
Mark.Harrison1@bbc.co.uk      x

Just got unsolicited email spam from  optimalax offering laser eye treatment and I've not signed up to this. Looks like a scam should I ignore or report to authorities?

report it to everyone you can think of       -    if you don't want more of it.

You people are weird, if you got a boob job and never got your hole after it healed when you were out at the dancin' , would you complain that your chebs weren't made big enough and that's why you couldn't get podgered? No point complaining about aftercare after the event IMHO

Hi there, I work in the industry, for Optilase, the leading provider in Ireland as an optometrist in the Belfast district. I obviously have a bias to the industry but not to Optimax or anyone else other than Optilase.

It seems that the adverse publicity only served to prove that the industry is already well regulated and that those cases that do get reported are minimal as nothing has changed. It appears to be lazy journalism as only the BBC are making programmes about this, all other broadcasters and government bodies are satisfied.

What I find is the saddest part of this whole issue, is that the corrupt MP and leader of this optimax ruined their site group are using this publicity to front their injury compensation racket. These white collar Mafiosas prey on a handful of vulnerable patients and exploit them for personal gain. They claim to have hundreds, thousands, even millions of people's details that are either having complications, in litagation or have been in contact and yet there are only a handful of 'stories' on their sites. Where are the other 999,980 they refer to?

I feel sorry for people suffering side effects to their treatment but it is probable that many people are being put off re-treatment that could help them due to conflicting negative news stories.

Fortunately this campaign is winding down as fewer people are being taking in by the lies and manipilation of these corporate terrorists, perhaps the corrupt mp and his puppet master will move onto something else.

No it is not winding down, it is only beginning. The force is awakening!

The only racketeers around here are people like you and Scambrose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Should we tell them the news now...or make them wait?

Good luck tomorrow at Thomas More court. If I were you, I'd wash my hands of John McDonnell he is a waste of space. Given the fact that it's due to you and your campaigning and he's forgotten that the only reason Corbin and McDonnell won the election was due largely to you. With this in mind all John had spoken about since he came to power are things like the torials and budgets, IRA and now he's obsessively talking about child credits and poor peasants. He even spoke about the Emperor of Egypt visiting England recently. What was that all about? What about the regulation of laser eye surgery industry he never says anything about it on his numerous tv and radio interviews. At prime minister question time today, he brags about his crony Corbin asking about child dole credits 6 times. Surely he could have asked the questions 5 times and regulation of laser eye surgery as the other. Good luck tomorrow but I definitely believe that John McDonnell is ripping the pish out of you and had backstabbed you over his commitment to expose this industry. He does not deserve to have a job and no wonder the country is going down the pan if this man is tipped to me the next England prime minister.  Give him an ultimatum: expose laser or resign and tell him he won't have your support anymore. Tick tock ;-)

Surely the plight of the poor is more important than that of the people with goofy eyeballs, man?

I bet she caved and went for a settlement

No, far from it my fair-weathered friend. I believe it was Mr Ambrose who in fact caved in and behaved like a little lost schoolboy, like a lamb to the slaughter. Like a fart in the wind.

Today's pre trial hearing lasted 25 mins and was quite frustrating, as neither Russell’s barrister Adam Walker nor His Honour Judge Adam Freeland QC had all the relevant facts

Following my previous post yesterday, Russell’s lawyer advised me that his client was dropping his bass counterclaim (even though I’d refused his offer) and Adam Walker told Judge Freeland this morning that he‘d done so to save everybody a lot of time and costs.

My [***] - the counterclaim was dropped because it had no merit whatsoever, as my recorded meetings with Russell prove, and I promise you he does not want anyone to hear their content!

There is one man, besides a very interested gardener, who wants these valuable recordings, and I will decide who gets them after the trial
Adam Freeland went on to say that he wanted my cash, my house, my phone. We want your soul, the counterclaim was based on my harassment of the Defendant, but that I had since signed a second agreement to stop.

Lies - it was based on Russell’s spurious claim that I had breached the agreement by representing Optimax and Ultralase damaged patients (with his full approval btw) and do you wanna make tea at the BBC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

I explained to the Judge that I’m running a high profile campaign calling for regulation of the refractive eye surgery industry, and the Defendant is very upset because after he paid me compensation in 2012 he thought I would go away and crawl under a stone, but unfortunately for him I’m now all over the world and a patient advocaat.

I told the Judge that the counterclaim was a ten million page document, that the alleged harassment was only a “teeny weeny polka dot bikini" of that, relating to the time I doorstepped Russell and performed the moonwalk because he had refused to accept my invoices and every day I'm shufflin', and that I had certainly not signed a second agreement!

Judge Freeland said that he wasn’t going to try the moonwalk himself as he’d heard too much and wanted to go home and read 50 shades of grey, and as he wasn’t going to do so he wanted to do his best to help navigate a way forward without us going to trial.

Adam told the Judge that the terms of Russell’s offer were to pay me £1,500 (my claim is £3,500,000,000) and pay for lipstick and eye drops. The Judge thought that this offer was better than my claim, not realising that my pint glasses were still not being paid for, nor is there any mention of payment of my Litigant in Person (LiP) costs - at least 1200hrs at £118 per hour.

He said he saw scope for us to come to an amicable agreement, but I told him that I had tried - for two years, but the Defendant is very stubborn. The Judge said he didn’t see it that way from what he’d heard from Adam Walker. I replied, “You haven’t met the Defendant!".

I explained that we’d had a 'without prejudice' meeting in 2014, but I knew I couldn’t discuss it in Court. Judge Freeland told me that as he wasn’t going to try the case I could do so.
I told him that we’d met to discuss Russell buying out my contract. Unfortunately Judge Freeland didn’t let me finish, and misunderstood that Russell had agreed. In fact these negotiations fell apart when Russell insisted I was examined by an ophthalmologist appointed by the RCOphth President and I refused.
As I have repeatedly stated, why should I have to prove that my eyes were damaged as result of lasek eye surgery on 18 February 2011 when Russell signed our agreement based on the fact.

Last May, when Judge Silverman ordered that I be examined by an ophthalmologist appointed by the RCOphth President I had no choice but to comply, and after at least fifteen surgeons refused to examine me, Mr Romesh Angunawela finally agreed.
I now not only have his medicolegal report supporting the fact that my problems all result from lasek eye surgery, but at least six more reports from Mr Sheraz Dayarea and Professor David Gartry, scanning 2011 to 2015, that also support this fact.

However, if you read the previous post, Russell claims Mr Angunawela was "equivocal on the issues of causation”. Trust me, I would love the opportunity to argue this in Court, as I would have Russell tied up in knots as he’d need to argue against his own Optimax consent form

I repeatedly told Judge Freeland that Russell was still refusing to pay for my glasses, which is what my claim was based on, explaining that whenever I’ve given the Defendant invoices he refuses to pay for them, saying I have to prove they’re needed as result of laser eye surgery.

The Judge suggested we negotiate before trial, and recommended to Adam Walker that the case might benefit from a further without prejudice meeting in the next week. Adam was doubtful this could happen, that it might be difficult to get all parties together, but I made it clear that I’m agreeable to attend a meeting.

I know that Russell does not want to go on a date, whereas I’m eager to do so, and willing to risk paying his costs - I'd remortgage my house if it came to it, because this is not about money for me. I just want to make the world right and forget about the price tag.

I doubt I’ll get the chance though, because I expect Russell will agree to pay my claim and make it impossible for me to go to trial, so no case left to argue.

But - and a very big BUT - if that happens, I also have no doubt that the next time I submit invoices he will again find a reason to refuse to pay them, and then I won’t mess around threatening to do so for two years, I’ll commence litigation immediately.

What really sickens me is that even with a legal agreement I’m having to fight to have it honoured, so what hope is there for damaged patients without one, not provided with as much as desperately needed eye drops under their ‘lifetime aftercare' guarantee

As it stands, we go to trial on 11 and 12 November, and I will of course update you if anything changes.
Meanwhile, thank you to the people who came to support me (one person wore a T-shirt), and the nice Judge also thanked them for coming!

NB: If you listen to BBC 5 Live Investigates, Amanda is an Optimax damaged patient and was one of the speakers at Bad Eye Day (I know I’ve still to post details and promise to do so, but obviously I’ve had more pressing matters to deal with.)

Shut it fannybaws.

Some clinics certainly will.

How can you be so obtuse?

Let's ceasefire on the fights guys and girlies, it's nearly the weekend xxx

Can't wait to see ENEI's rituals album launch at Fabric tomorrow night. I'm gonna get muntered, double-dunted, and plan to give it laldy on the dancefloor until 6am. Drum and the bass, bass and the drum. The lighting and sound system are wicked.

What time are we are meeting at Farringdon, I need to check into my hotel and I'll meet you when you're ready.

See y'all soon
Steph xxx

I hope this night is as good as you say so Steph, I'm coming all the way over from llandudno on your word. Please let's leave enough time between our meal and the doors opening, there's nothing worse than needing a jobby when you're in a club.