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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Infiniti2000" data-source="post: 2801079" data-attributes="member: 31734">Nothing will ever be perfected, but it is getting very good.  The chances of going blind permanently are for all intents and purposes nil.  You have a better chance of getting struck by a car an fatally injured on your way home than go blind due to LASIK, PRK, LASEK, transepithelial PRK, etc.  As someone who writes laser eye surgery software, I know quite a bit about it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Canada, like every place in the world, does have a few screwballs loose.  I can name a few, but let's not and say we did.  The 2/1 specials are really hurting the industry.  It lowers the quality of just about everything, with doctors buying 10-15 year old systems on the cheap and paying their staff next to nothing.  If you look at the surgical plan of a doctor doing a 2/1 special and compare it to a real surgeon who doesn't take shortcuts, you'll see a world of difference, pun intended.The thing about non-US countries is the lack, or near lack, of regulations.  I could compile my software right now, e-mail it to a doctor in Toronto, and have him start surgery in 20 minutes.  The EU is not much different, requiring mainly electrical safety system standards.  They have software guidelines, sure, but no one making sure you implement them.  The FDA, on the other hand, well, let's not go there.  Anyway, this lack of regulations is good on one hand, that you get the latest and greatest, emphasis on the latest.  Software bug? Oops, my bad.Now, being in the USA, I have implemented and use very strict guidelines, pretty much the strictest possible outside the structures for the space program and the really dangerous surgical devices like radiation therapy machines (if you don't know what I mean, Google therac-25).  Most laser surgery companies do the same, but not all.  Worse yet are the doctors who get some schmuck to hack into their second- or third-hand system and reprogram it.  This happens mostly just down in South America though, so don't worry about it too much in Canada, eh.Okay, I'm babbling.</blockquote>

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