Post Operative Process for Foreign patients.
In this entry Dr. Chynn responds to a fellow practitioners questions regarding the LASEK post-operative process for a mutual foreign patient:
Thank you in advance for helping manage our mutual patient. just to reassure you, we will be doing 100% of the preoperative testing ourselves, and of course, the surgery (probably a LASEK instead of a LASIK), and 90% of the postoperative care. Post Operative Process for Visiting Foreign patients.
This patient has a sister who lives in New York City, and is OK with staying with her for one month, so he is fully healed and seeing perfectly before he returns home to Pakistan.
The only thing we would like you to do is see the patient once, about 1 month after he returns (between 2-3 months post-op) and examine him to confirm he has no scarring, and to tell us what the prescription is in each eye (either by a manifest refraction, or by auto-refraction).
As you probably know, the postoperative care in LASEK is both longer and more extensive than after LASIK, but the advantage is it’s safer, plus we can tailor the final prescription more, using the steroid tape, or, if over corrected, NSAIDs.
Please confirm by replying to ALL not just myself that you are willing to see this nice patient once at about 6 weeks after his return to your country.
Typically, we would charge him $100 USD less for his surgery, and then he would just pay you $100 USD for this visit with you–please reply to ALL confirming if this arrangement is acceptable to you.
Thank you in advance for your kind help.
