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qgin 5 days ago

LASIK is essentially an automated surgery and 1-2 million people get it done every year. Nobody even seems to care that it’s an almost entirely automated process.

iExploder 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Not a doctor or an expert on this but as a patient I would say LASIK sounds less invasive than internal organ operations...

matthewdgreen 4 days ago | parent [-]

They're cutting into your eye!

beAbU 4 days ago | parent [-]

With a laser!!!

jacquesm 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe not the best example:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/18/lasik-laser-...

soco 3 days ago | parent [-]

Any intervention, heck even jogging around your house, has a risk. The only important question is: are there less automated errors than human errors? If yes, here's the progress we asked for.

jacquesm 2 days ago | parent [-]

If no, then it isn't. Given that they overstate their success rate by orders of magnitude there seems to be a problem.

cpard 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Makes total sense, I think robotic surgeries are happening for quite a while now not only for eye surgeries.

And I think it’s another great example of how automation is happening in the medical practice.

hkt 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

If they can automate training me not to recoil from the eye speculum I'd appreciate it, my pesky body does not like things getting too close.

(Serious remark)

0_____0 5 days ago | parent [-]

I think sedation may be an option (chemical automation, how about it?)

hkt 4 days ago | parent [-]

I was told it wasn't :(

filoleg 4 days ago | parent [-]

Full anesthesia - yeah, not an option, you need to be awake. Something milder - it could be an option (depending on the state, maybe? not sure, mine was done in WA).

Neither me nor my friends (all of us who got lasik) asked for it, but my clinic gave me valium, and my friends’ clinic gave them xanax shortly before the procedure.

Tangential sidenote: that was nearly 8 years ago, and I am absolutely glad I got it done.

hkt 4 days ago | parent [-]

Noted! I'm in the UK and nobody mentioned anything. Maybe I'll ask! I'd love to not have glasses even if it was just some of the time.