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The U.S. Navy's Doctrine of Laser Eye Surgery
The New York Times reports that laser eye surgery — now performed on nearly a third of every new class of midshipmen — is transforming Naval careers. Navy doctors are performing these operations with "assembly-line efficiency," allowing older pilots to continue flying, and those who might otherwise have been disqualified to pursue flight school. The number of procedures has reportedly climbed from 50 to 349 over the past five years. The Navy uses a different procedure than that used on civilians — grinding the cornea rather than cutting a flap — out of fears that the flap could come loose in supersonic combat.
Its not the money- very few people would argue based on that. Its the risk of your sight worsening or being lost entirely. A 1/20 or so chance of going blind vs having to wear glasses for life- I'll take glasses. The return on that risk is just not high enough.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
people who put their lives at risk doing stuff like that eventually will eventually pay for it. i'm sure his hands and half his face were worth that risk to him. if not he's a ****ing moron.
Thanks alot! Now that I went through the two last links and some of your comments, I'm definitely disgusted of laser eye surgery (a flap? peeling off your eye? protective contacts? ewww wtf), and won't consider it again before they invent some stuff that does it without cutting or peeling off anything in your eye, damnit! Don't mean to sound like a cunt but that's disgusting, not even talking about the actual risks
Meanwhile I'll stick to glasses and contacts, even if it's annoying sometimes.
You just got troll'd!