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THE VSRN HANDBOOK
The immediate post-operative period
What is normal for patients to experience during the post-operative phase?
What questions should I ask my doctor?
How long should I wait before seeking a second opinion?
Surgical complications
List of complications
At what point do post-operative symptoms become complications?
What does healing really mean?
Visual/optical complications treatment and management
Residual refractive errors
Irregular astigmatism
GASH
Night driving problems
Contrast sensitivity problems
Refractive imbalance and monovision
Ocular motility and binocularity issues
Why can’t I just wear glasses again?
Contact lenses
Enhancements and more surgery
Medical/physiological complications
Dry eye
Pain
Flap striae and wrinkles
Ectasia
Psychological complications treatment and management
What has happened to “me”?
“RSS: refractive surgery syndrome”
Depression
Anger
Self-recrimination
Life after vision surgery complications
Practical ways to cope
Getting family, friends and co-workers to understand
Support and reassurance from others with complications
Helping others can help yourself
Legal issues
Litigation: what makes the case?
Statute of limitations
Acquiring and maintaining your records
Legal opinions
The shortcomings of informed consent
Why most patients cannot claim malpractice
Screening criteria
Contraindications for vision correction surgery
History of refractive surgery
When patients become customers
Will refractive surgery ever be perfected?
