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A comment on Ex-FDA Advisor Says of Lasik Eye Surgery: ‘It Should Have Never Been Approved’. Parent comment

Re:Ex-FDA Advisor Says of Lasik Eye Surgery: ‘It Should Have... by dation on Friday November 15, 2019 @02:12PM (#21547775)
If you don't like those risks then don't undergo it but for other people will find the risks acceptable and want to have it done. Being approved doesn't mean it is forced on anyone.
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Re:Ex-FDA Advisor Says of Lasik Eye Surgery: ‘It Should Have... by SketchySeaBeast on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:30PM (#21548435)
What's the point of any regulatory agency at all then? Just to correctly elucidate those odds?
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Re:Ex-FDA Advisor Says of Lasik Eye Surgery: ‘It Should Have... by dation on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:53PM (#21548658)
Is the point of a regulatory agency to decide for hundreds of millions of people what their acceptable level of risk? What if thousands of people die from not having access to medications that a regulatory agency deems too risky?
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Re:Ex-FDA Advisor Says of Lasik Eye Surgery: ‘It Should Have... by brokensegue on Friday November 15, 2019 @06:17PM (#21549713)
yeah that's what regulatory agencies are for. is this the first you've heard of them?
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