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Questions about the Laser Vision
Correction Surgeon in the Denver & Boulder Colorado Area.
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1. WHAT IS YOUR RETREATMENT
RATE? I'VE HEARD SOME LASER SURGEONS CLAIM THEY HAVE A RETREATMENT
RATE OF ALMOST 0%.
My retreatment rate all
Laser Vision Correction procedures I have performed since 1996 is
approximately 10%. My retreatment rate is less than 5% for low corrections
and 20% for very high power corrections. Obviously the higher the
correction the higher the retreatment rate. I, too, have heard some
of my colleagues claim they have extremely low retreatment rates.
First of all, you need to inquire what the Laser Surgeon's criteria
is for retreatments. Many surgeons keep their retreatment rate low
by simply refusing to retreat patients. Those surgeons will set
arbitrary "minimum" vision limits (usually 20/40 or worse)
before they will retreat. I am very aggressive in retreating any
patient that feels their vision is not as sharp as they like, if
1. There is enough correction to retreat and 2 . There is enough
residual corneal tissue to insure adequate corneal integrity after
a retreatment.
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2. How many Denver, Colorado
Laser Vision Correction Procedures have you performed? Why shouldn't
I just go to the Laser Vision Surgeon who has performed the most
procedures?
As of November, 2006, I have performed over
7000 Laser Vision Procedures, 95% LASIK and 5% PRK. Some of my colleagues
have performed many times more procedures than I, but this high
volume comes at the expense of quality patient care; surgeons
who perform very high volumes of Laser Vision Surgery are not personally
providing the pre-op and post-op care on their patients. They
are delegating pre-op and post-op patient care to optometrists (optometrists
are not Medical Doctors) and technicians. This means
that the very high-volume Surgeon is depending on non-medical personnel
to evaluate you before surgery and also to identify any potential
risks or surgical complications that you may be experiencing after
surgery . I limit the number of cases I will do in a
month to 150 cases. From my personal experience, I can not give
optimal, personalized patient care if I exceed more than 150 cases
per month. I perform my own pre-op and post-op care; I will not
delegate your care.
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3. Why
should I pick you to do my LASIK?
Once again, I do not claim that my results are
perfect nor that I am the "best" Laser Surgeon in Denver.
However, my Laser Vision staff and I are deeply committed to provide
you with not only absolutely state-of-the-art technology and advanced
medical care, but we also try to provide you with something that
is all but lost in today's extremely competitive medical/business
environment; we will actually be nice to you. I am proud to brag
about this one aspect of my practice; we receive MANY heartfelt
compliments and thank-yous from our patients because we are actually
treating them nicely. How can something so simple and so apparently
obvious as being nice to people be ignored by "modern medicine"?
When I go to the doctor, which I hate doing myself, I am fully expecting
to be treated inconsiderately. I do not want to do this to my
patients. I acknowledge that modern medicine is "big-business",
but this does not prevent us from being nice to you and all our
patients.
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Phone (303)393-0347
Fax (303)393-1026
Rose Medical Plaza, 4545 East Ninth Avenue, #270, Denver, CO 80220
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