"Utilizing advanced technology such as microkeratomes and computer-assisted lasers is a bit like modern air travel. It is probably the best way to get from here to there, but we are also at the mercy of the technology. Just as an airline captain will not take off unless everything important is functioning within acceptable limits, we will not begin your procedure unless our equipment is all functioning properly. And just as that pilot might occasionally have to divert a flight as a precaution, we might have to stop our surgical procedure at the safest possible point if a malfunction develops."
I... I don't even have anything to say about this exceedingly bizarre extended metaphor for LASIK. Perhaps describing your LASIK surgeon as being at the mercy of his own technology is not the best image to portray. I do, however, eagerly await the motion-picture debut of Snakes on a Microkeratome.
Featured quote from Sam Jackson, Practicing Ophthalmologist: "I've had it with these MF'ing snakes on my MF'ing iris scanning equipment!" In theaters -- Fall 2007.
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Thats just taking metaphors a little too far.....
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