The criminal case against LASIK

IS LASIK A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE? THE RELEASE OF THE CORS SurveyThe FDA division chief Morris Waxler, PhD who oversaw the original approval of LASIK in the US is now petitioning the FDA for its immediate withdraw. He has filed acomplaint with the Office of Criminal Investigations of the FDA alleging conspiracy andfraud in LASIK’s original approval that continues until this day. This is a leak of just one piece of the evidence.One of the authors of the CORS Study was this man, research psychologist Roger Davis,Ph.D. He gave this presentation before the Ophthalmic Devices Panel in April 2008.That panel, in response to dissatisfied patient complaints, had convened to look at qualityof life problems after LASIK.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu1PL1Q5j-0The other doctor on the study was Michael Grimmett, MD. Dr Grimmett’s had been amember of the original ophthalmic device panel that had approved LASIK. This is hisCV at the time the original CORS Survey was submitted for publication in 2003.

OPHTHALMIC DEVICES PANELMAY 23, 2003 MEETING ROSTERVOTING MEMBERS

MICHAEL R. GRIMMETT, M.D.

Dr. Grimmett is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at theBascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Miami School of Medicine. He graduated from Loyola Marymount University inLos Angeles, CA and received his M.D. from the University of California at Irvine. Dr. Grimmett is board certified in bothinternal medicine and ophthalmology and completed his fellowshipin corneal and external disease at the University of Minnesota inMinneapolis in 1993. He is a recognized expert on themedical/legal/ethical issues associated with refractive surgery, publishing

The Call of the Sirens, Ethically Navigating the Sea of Nonvalidated Therapies,

in the Journal of Refractive Surgery, the journal of the International Society of Refractive Surgery. He is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Refractive Surgery, the AmericanJournal of Ophthalmology, and Cornea. Dr. Grimmett has beenactively involved in the Eye Bank Association of America since

1994, and contributes his expertise to the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s continuing medical education (CME) programand the development of their CME website.

What Dr Davis did not tell the attendees at the Ophthalmic Devices Panel meeting wasthat this study of the Surgical Eyes Foundation (Ron Link, executive director) patientswas rejected for publication, despite the fact that it was only a survey of patient postoperative experiences. The survey should have raised more questions and should havelead to further study and research, but instead, it was rejected outright, despite itsadmitted limitations. The person who was ultimately responsible for rejecting the studyoutright was the editor in chief of the Journal of Refractive Surgery, George Waring, III,who has been editor of that journal from 1997 thru 2011. George Waring, III featured prominently in Tom Harbin’s recent shocking book, “Waking Up Blind,” as GeorgeWaring headed the committee that covered up for the many blindings, wrong surgeries,false billings of Dwight Cavanaugh, MD, the department chair of the EmoryOphthalmology Department. A reflection on George Waring by an ophthalmologycoworker at the time Dr Boothe can be found here.http://retiredmensbookclub.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/personal-reflections-on-waking-up-blind/What was also not publicly conveyed by Dr Davis at the April 2008 Ophthalmic Devices panel meeting is the fact that the authors received death threats at the time they attemptedto publish their work. The death threats were reported to authorities, but the originator of those threats was never determined.