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The Food & Drug Administration held hearings into the safety of the lasik system, the elective laser eye surgery procedure that, when successful, allows people to dispose of their eyeglasses. Thursday ABC's Lisa Stark (embargoed link) and NBC's Robert Bazell previewed the hearings, warning of the potential problems of dry eyes, double vision, haloes, starbursts and nighttime visibility. CBS' in-house physician Jon LaPook waited until the actual hearings to file his report, pointing out that even though 95% of the procedures are successful, a 5% dissatisfaction rate, when 700,000 laser surgeries are performed each year, multiplies to "thousands of unhappy patients." NBC brought Bazell back a second day for an In Depth report: he mentioned the USArmy as a satisfied customer, calling lasik "terrific for helicopter pilots."
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