Category: LASIK Malpractice

The Statute of Limitations is the Doctor’s Friend, Not Yours

The statute of limitations is the period by when you are required to start a lawsuit. The statute of limitations varies depending on the type of claim, and even for […]

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LASIK, Money, and Patient Satisfaction

In The Big Short, in a chapter ironically entitled “In the Land of the Blind,” best-selling author Michael Lewis describes how doctors respond to bad incentives. He explains “The evolution […]

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DR. MARK WHITTEN, DR. L. EDWARD PERRAUT, M.D., & TLC SUED FOR LASIK MALPRACTICE

PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jamie Domeier vs. Mark Whitten, M.D., L. Edward Perraut, Jr. M.D., TLC The Laser Center (Northeast) Inc., Jo Angeles, O.D., Andrew Morgenstern, O.D., Greg […]

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TLC’s Improper LASIK Patient Screening and Bankrupt Business Model

March 18, 2010 In 2005, I obtained a LASIK malpractice verdict against Mark Speaker, M.D., who was Medical Director of TLC in New York. Since that time, I believed that this LASIK […]

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The Wild, Wild West Of LASIK

February 25, 2010 According to the Chicago Tribune, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation has finally shut down one of its most sued LASIK surgeons, after more than […]

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Informed Consent

February 8, 2010 As a New York LASIK malpractice attorney, frequently, LASIK patients contact me and complain that they have suffered complications from their surgery. They quickly add that they fear that […]

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How Safe is LASIK? The Tiger Woods of Medical Procedures?

February 1, 2010 In a recent article, New York Times reporter Abby Ellin writes that Army doctor Erik J. Rupard, refers to LASIK as “the Tiger Woods of medical procedures: […]

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THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS AND TIME BOMB OF POST LASIK ECTASIA

The statute of limitations refers to the period within which you must start a lawsuit.  If you fail to act in timely fashion, a court will dismiss your lawsuit, no […]

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FDA To Study LASIK Patient Satisfaction

What is the true complication rate for LASIK surgery? Who knows?  Last summer, in the New York Law Journal, I reported that depending on the source it varies from 1% […]

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Letter to the New York Times Regarding Doctor Medical Malpractice Exemption

June 15, 2009 Letters to the Editor The New York Times 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Re:    Obama Open To Reining In Medical Suits: Bargaining Chip Seen in […]

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