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"businesses that WAS of no concern"?        From an M.P.?      University educated?

I have learned one universal truth in life: There ain't one government around the world that does not have an abundance of corrupt politicians.

University educated or not whether it be Westminster, Holyrood, Washington or San José you will find that bad grammar and tax avoidance are only the tip of the iceberg.

Indeed there is growing incontrovertible evidence proving that the modus operandi of many politician figures seeking power is to use their political status to leverage personal wealth.

Yeah like that ratbag John McDonnell who promised to publicise MBE campaign but did the dirty by then not mentioning it at all dispute all the airtime he now gets. You might fool some people but you don't foo me you lying politician clown

Couldn't agree with you anymore Hunni.

Seen him on the telly tonight and he didn't mention anything about the regulation of refractive surgery. ffs the least he could do is turn up for work with a Bad Eyes Day tshirt on. That way during PMQ he'd be seen by millions generating free advertising for the My Beautiful Eyes cause.

Laser eye surgery performed by human surgeons will be a thing of the past thanks to the automated fully robotic surgeon system known as Optical Prime 2.0 manufactured by Tezcorp®.

Removing the human element will drive up efficiency by 500% and reduce cost by 23% according to Tezcorp CMO Paul Gascoigne.

The Optical Prime 2.0 devices are due to be installed in leading supermarkets and housed next to passport photo booths in early autumn 2016.

Health Minister Jeremy Hunt said "great stuff, can't wait. Let's hope Tezcorp can also invent new robots to replace GPs, nurses and all other lazy NHS workers."

George Foreman was a famous boxer. But it was his revolutionary frying pan that made him famous and won him critical acclaim.

Why he ever got involved in sending spam emails is anyone's guess.

Important reading for all sufferers of dry eyes and Meibomian gland disease(MGD) - especially if you've been told that laser surgery 100% does not cause MGD, when the majority of us had never even heard of Meibomian glands pre surgery!

Dr Sebastian Rosenthal runs the Boston Eye Pain Foundation, and he is one of the few doctors I know who takes seriously the dry eye problems and consequent pain suffered by countless laser eye surgery patients.

After reading his article below, if you would like to be included in Dr Rosenthal's ongoing research, please send him an email asking for a copy of the
'INJURY / SURGERY-ASSOCIATED EYE PAIN QUESTIONNAIRE'.
prosenthal@bostoneyepain.org

Sebastian is a hunky man and will reply to all emails, but please be patient as it may take him a week or two!

"Imagine a surgical procedure being performed for cosmetic reasons and patient convenience on a healthy organ critical to our ability to function. Considering that this surgery neither treats nor prevents disease, what is the acceptable rate of serious and permanent complications? Shouldn’t it be zero? How can we even consider a rate greater than those of vaccinations that, while also given to healthy people, provide invaluable disease-prevention benefits? LASIK/PRK laser surgeries do not.

How has it been possible that the well-documented, disastrous, permanent complications of these procedures have been ignored by the FDA—never mind the eye care professions? I have a confession to make. Despite my having been aware of the many blinding consequences of this surgery having treated many of them when I worked at the Boston Foundation for Sight (which I founded but no longer am affiliated with), I too failed to act on my observations that these surgical procedures can destroy the quality of life of these victims.

I did nothing until I became aware of a complication that had not been previously reported; long lasting and in many cases, probably permanent suicide-provoking eye pain. This is not the pain that many patients experience after the surgery. Why hasn’t this devastating complication been previously reported? The answer, I had assumed, was that eye doctors had been misled because these eyes typically look normal and well healed. And since, we have been trained to believe that the cause of chronic eye pain can always be identified during traditional examinations and that if nothing is found to explain it, this devastating eye pain must be imaginary. Moreover, as I discovered, the onset of this type of pain can occur years after the surgery and its connection to the surgery easily dismissed. I hadn’t even considered that there could be a coordinated effort to suppress this information.

I did detailed examinations on 21 such patients (how rare can it be?) and wrote a paper detailing the characteristics of this pain disease which I call corneal neuropathic centralized pain. I explained why it differs from typical temporary post operative pain. In it I presented my theory about its mechanisms and included suggestions on how it might be possibly prevented. Shouldn’t it be of interest to eye doctors, the FDA and prospective patients? In fact, it was summarily rejected by a leading peer-reviewed journal in ophthalmology. I shrugged my shoulders and submitted it to one that specializes in corneal laser procedures, fully expecting it to be accepted. It too was rejected outright for reason, according to the reviewers, that were impossible to address. I could have explained that, because of the infrequency of this complication, it would take more than 15 years at an incredible cost to perform the studies they insisted would be needed by other journals. In other words their suggestions were beyond the pale. Nor was I allowed to respond. The decision was irreversible. I was confused. So I sent the paper to world-class pain researchers for their opinions. All supported its being published. (One called my work “transformative”.) It is interesting that both journals ignored my recommendation that at least one of the reviewers be an expert in pain. I began to wonder if they had a hidden agenda. Was I becoming paranoid?

As I began to read the history of LASIK and its complications I became aware of the central role of the FDA in continuing to sanction these procedures despite their history. So I sent my paper to the FDA to document this previously unreported complication despite being warned that they will not respond. I didn’t believe it. I was wrong. I sent the paper twice without it even being acknowledged. Of course they could always say that the paper has no standing because it had been rejected. However, a cursory look at the results of any search engines provides a day’s read. Where is the shame?

I would never have imagined that editors of scientific peer-reviewed journals, a vast, profitable manufacturing/marketing industry and even some practicing doctors would collaborate to hide these complications from the public and prospective patients. And what about the government agency whose primary responsibility is to protect the public?

As of 2011, it was estimated that more than 11 million of these procedures had been performed in the US. (bmctoday.net/crstodayeurope/2013/02/arti...-epithelial-ingrowth and more than 28 million have been done world-wide ( www.aao.org/publications/eyenet/200906/feature.cfm and it was predicted that at the current rate of 800,000 procedures per year, the available pool of surgical candidates is growing by 2 million eyes per year (bmctoday.net/crstoday/2011/08/article.as...-poised-for-recovery). This is a huge industry with tentacles that appear to reach the bowels of the FDA. In the meantime, I think about what will be happening to the vast numbers of the people who will be undergoing these procedures ignorant of their possible life-destroying complications. Shouldn’t they at least be able to make an informed decision?

I have been accused as having an over-abundance of naivety. But, I can no longer be silent."
www.bostoneyepain.org

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I was reading an interesting article that speculated that most of the patients who claim that dry eyes and MGD is an issue had unidentified psychological issues prior to having their op.

I guess that means than companies that perform laser eye surgery and other similar cosmetic treatments really need to be more thorough in their research to identify and reject those prospective patients who are a can short of a six pack.

I don't often post news unrelated to eyes and George Bowie’s recent death was an exception.

I am adding Andrew Furr aka Shuffle Bot to this exception because 'Party Rock Anthem' has been my personal anthem since I first heard it - on a beach in Ibiza one memorable night in late 2011.

Following a crash earlier this month Shuffle Bot never fully rebooted and he died on Tuesday.
http://smarturl.it/Juicy_Wiggle

This is the one song that I have told friends to play at my funeral - not yet boys

;-)

Life is too short, and I intend to use the rest of mine to make a difference!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNmjP6m6eFg&feature=youtu.be&t=54s

Optimax going bust?

https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/08702202020/99

Re Russell Ambrose t/a Optimax

I previously wrote on my website:

“I also have no doubt that the next time I submit invoices Russell Ambrose 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."

As I predicted, after he backed down and settled my first claim without going to trial, when I submitted new invoices in November (totalling £3,598) Russell ignored them and I issued further Court proceedings.

Russell obviously enjoys playing expensive games with me 😉

People all over England living in poverty, unable to feed themselves, or heat their homes, visiting food banks and then you get someone like you bragging about how you earn +£60,000 per year. You make me sick.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35453436

Ironic really that you hide behind professional footballers names that all earned in excess of 60k a year, while poor fans paid a fortune to see them under perform.

What are you on about? I'd rather be a rugby player for Warrington Wolves than a goofy footballer but unfortunately the best I can achieve is stacking shelves in Tesco whilst these silver spoon in their mouth politicians run about bragging about how much they earn.

Unless you've experienced poverty you really have no idea but people like John McDonnell don't think about the poor, only how they can take advantage of us for votes.

Then why do you keep posting under footballers names? Surely, if you have suffered the hardship that you say ( and I seriously doubt it) you would post under your own name and receive the credibility that you seek.
I get the feeling you are a Troll  who has read the previous posts and tries to add their irrelevant posts with no actual knowledge of what we have had to endure or are an employee  trying to disrupt serious discussion.

I'm not a football player, if I were a football player I wouldn't be on here, I'd be out spending my wads of cash.

I'm Paul McStay from Warrington and I'm angry that politicians think it's ok to brag about the money they earn when people like me get paid peanuts and can't afford to eat.

What credibility are you talking about?

Optimax Reviews?

http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews55613.html

Find real Optimax reviews and make up your own mind

It's obvious the name Ally Mac. Is a fake name generated by or on behalf of John McDonnell to deflect from the disgusting amounts of money they earn for a couple of hours work per week.

After having RLE I was told I now see things that people with normal vision don't. I see dead people.

Floating around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead.

5 years ago at this exact day I was on my way to ruin the rest of my life.

In a million years I would never have imagined that my journey would lead to where I am now.

Last year, after Russell Ambrose forced me into heavyweight litigation, I decided it was time I did the same thing I advise my clients to do...

So I complained to the GOC about Ms Swati Malkan, the optometrist who sold me lie changing surgery, and to the GMC about surgeon Wilbert Hoe (undeserving of being addressed as ‘Dr’) who irreparably ruined my beautiful healthy face exactly 5 years ago today.

My complaint to the GOC was closed but I am of course appealing this decision as they completely ignored a number of salient points I had specifically asked them to consider.

It’s interesting that Swati Malkan claimed she was unable to recall the details of our meeting - while I remember almost every word - yet she provided a 50 page letter in response to my complaint!

The GMC accepted my complaint which is currently being investigated and I have been advised that Wilbert Hoe has chosen not to provide a response.

However, I will be amazed if the decision goes against Wilbert Hoe, because every single complaint made to the GMC that I am aware of, against numerous surgeons all with multiple legal claims, has been closed in favour of the surgeon.

In one report I read, the GMC expert wrote, “The overall standard of care falls below the standard to be expected of a reasonably competent Consultant Ophthalmologist…” (but) “…in my opinion the standard of care offered by Dr X to Patient X did not fall seriously below that to be expected of a reasonably competent Consultant Ophthalmologist”!

NB: The GMC report highlighted ‘seriously’ in bold.

I have no doubt that the leading culprits in this industry will soon be gone from our high streets, but people like me will sadly never be able to forget the anniversary of the day our faces were ruined forever!