The studies cited by Slade, Waxler said, were done by "people who have a financial interest in the outcome. Not one independent study has been done. ... some of the military ophthalmologists have a side business in doing this ... they have profited mightily. LASIK has been promoted as if it was like having your fingernails manicured or your hair curled. It's not. You're taking a perfectly formed cornea, messing it up by making a slice, putting a flap over ... you have a lot of problems."
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Morris Waxler, who is now an independent regulatory consultant, filed a citizens petition today urging the agency to take steps to stop what he calls "the epidemic of permanent vision problems" caused by LASIK.
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