Refractive Surgery
(RS) -
surgical techniques of modifying the
cornea to correct refractive errors - is at
present fashionable and widely discussed. Many
Vision Educators find themselves challenged by
sufferers from short sight especially on the
lines of "Why should I go to the trouble of
trying to help myself when this operation will do
it all for me?"
Possible questions to discuss,
therefore, would include all the aspects of cost
effectiveness and risk assessment i.e: What are
the risks and level of risk involved as between
VE and RS? What is the true relation between cash
cost, personal time and trouble, and a given end
result? What is the likely end result in each
case? This article considers these questions, not
so much from the Vision Educator's viewpoint, but
mainly through the information and research made
available by the people who practice and have
experienced it, with just a few liberties taken
in rendering jargon and medibabble into plain
English.
