"Glenn - USAEyes.org" <glenn.hageleSTOPSPAM[at]USAEyes.org> wrote in message
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other use of USAEyes by Brent Hanson is not approved by Council for
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manner affiliated with the Council for Refractive Surgery Quality
Assurance.

Brent Hanson is not in any way affiliated with USAEyes.org.

The creation of the usaeyes.INFO website and purchase of similar
domains by Brent Hanson appears to be a violation of the US Federal
Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and appears to be in
violation of regulations under the authority of the Internet
Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Brent Hanson is currently being litigated against for defamation and
invasion of privacy in California Superior Court, Sacramento. Brent
Hanson previously lost a defamation lawsuit brought against him by
William Boothe, MD, was found in contempt of court, and AGREED
to 540 days in jail. A PERMANENT restraining order is held against
Brent Hanson to stay away from Dr. Boothe. For details regarding both
defamation cases including a copy of the Texas court's Order of
Restraint and finding of contempt with jail sentence, see
http://www.glennhagele.com/brenthanson/

Glenn Hagele
Executive Director
USAEyes.org
Patient Advocacy Surgeon Certification

"Consider and Choose With Confidence"

Email to glenn dot hagele at usaeyes dot org

http://www.USAEyes.org

Lasik Bulletin Board
http://www.USAEyes.org/Ask-Lasik-Expert/

I am not a doctor.

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On May 2, 9:55 pm, Glenn - USAEyes.org
<glenn.hageleSTOPS...[at]USAEyes.org> wrote:
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IT'S VERY APPARENT TO EVERYONE THAT GLENN HAGELE'S WORST ENEMY IS
INDEED GLENN HAGELE. GLENN HAGELE HAS CREATED MORE BLOGS AND
NEGATIVE LASIK INDUSTRY THAN PROBABLY ALL OF THE HURT LASIK PATIENTS
COMBINED.

WAY TO GO GLENN HAGELE!!

HAVE THE CRSQA LASIK DOCTORS WHO PAY YOU FIGURED THIS OUT YET?

MORE ON GLENN HAGELE AT:

WWW.USAEYES.INFO
WWW.LASIKFLAP.COM
WWW.LIFEAFTERLASIK.COM

The subject line created by Lauranell "Nell" Burch is a lie.
Furthermore, the entire matter has been resolved between the parties
involved. Amends have been made and apologies exchanged.

Glenn Hagele
Executive Director
USAEyes.org
Patient Advocacy Surgeon Certification

"Consider and Choose With Confidence"

Email to glenn dot hagele at usaeyes dot org

http://www.USAEyes.org

Lasik Bulletin Board
http://www.USAEyes.org/Ask-Lasik-Expert/

I am not a doctor.

Copyright 2007
All Rights Reserved

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.l...d42204049221f9

Glenn Hagele wrote:

"That's enough Sandy. I am fed up with your whimpering and whining.

I have volunteered for years, since long before excimer laser evercame
about and long before you decided to have LASIK, for the National
Federation of the Blind (NFB). I have been a member of the President's
Club since the mid 1980s. I can tell you that these fine people, who
are functionally or totally blind and don't have options for vision
restoration, would take you to task for even suggesting that they or
someone who has functional but disrupted vision have "shattered"
lives.

Your suggestion that someone who needs a corneal transplant to restore
vision has a "shattered" life is offensive, rude, abusive, and mean
spirited. Who the hell are you to tell these people their lives are
shattered?

Look at yourself. You had a catastrophic LASIK outcome. By your
description, you have gone through hell. You have decided not to have
a corneal transplant that several doctors have suggest may be
beneficial, but even without a transplant and by your own admission,
your vision now is 20/20 corrected, functional, but not perfect.

You operate your own business, you have a family life, you have
friends, you travel, you are able to communicate here and on your own
website. There is no doubt that all of the things you do are limited
or done with limited vision, but where do you get off calling your
life "shattered". I don't know what you consider a "shattered" life,
and everyone has his or her own opinion about what that would mean,
but people with real problems would not consider your life
"shattered". Not one bit.

Why don't you visit the NFB's convention this July and tell them how
your life is so terribly shattered because your 20/20 vision is
distorted and you won't have a transplant. How dare you insult these
fine people by characterizing your wimpy-ass problems as "shattering"
your life.

You just don't get it Sandy. You never have and you never will. The
world doesn't give a damn about Sandy Keller and her little problems,
because the world knows what real problems are. You are a mosquito in
the Taj Mahal. You go on and on about how you had to do this and have
to do that while there are people out the functioning perfectly well
without a complaint who don't have any vision at all. Then you have
the audacity to characterize them as having shattered" lives. You are
the worst kind of zealot. You are so full of yourself and your
"problems" that you don't see or give a damn about people who really
do have difficulties and challenges.

The fact that you received over $250,000 dollars in a malpractice
settlement indicates the severity of your difficulties, but
"shattered" is not an adjective that anyone who has encountered real
vision difficulties would use to describe you, the great anti-
refractive surgery/surgeon/industry zealot whiner.

Not everyone who has a bad refractive surgery outcome - even
catastrophic - considers the event "life shattering". Not everyone who
experiences a corneal transplant (for whatever reason) will spend
hours a day on the Internet trying to scare anyone foolish enough to
listen. Just how "shattered" a life may be by a bad refractive surgery
outcome is going to depend an awful lot on the personality and mental
stability of the person involved. You obviously do not have the
personality or mental stability to deal with your own problems without
inflicting your misery on the rest of the world.

There are tens of thousands of corneal transplants performed every
year due to natural causes and eye trauma that have nothing to do with
refractive surgery. These people's lives are not "shattered". Their
lives are challenged or disrupted, but not "shattered". Their vision
is restored (probably not perfectly, but certainly functionally) with
a surgical procedure. That is not exactly a "shattered" life, and at
least they have the option of having some vision restoration with a
transplant. Not everyone gets this opportunity.

I have said time and again that refractive surgery is not just about
the physiology of the eye. It is about what the individual patient
expects from refractive surgery. If someone is unable to accept the 3
in 100 possibility of any kind of unresolved problem and the 1 in
2,000 possibility of a catastrophic outcome that might even result in
a transplant, then that person SHOULD NOT have refractive surgery. If
someone is unable to emotionally handle the consequence of the
potential adversity, then that person SHOULD NOT have refractive
surgery - or any other elective surgery, for that matter.

Next time you are going to spread your bovine fertilizer here or
anywhere, think about the white cane that YOU DO NOT USE and think
about the people who you insult by claiming some sort of righteous
indignation because you made a bad decision in your life.

Not only have you demonstrated time and again that you don't have the
emotional ability to handle your own problems without vomiting your
neurosis on the rest of the world, you have the unmitigated gall to
tell people who have real problems that you have a "shattered" life.
I, for one, have had enough of you. Take your sniveling whining to
SurgicalEyes where it is appreciated and leave the rest of the sane
world out of your self-perpetuated gloom."

Glenn Hagele
Executive Director
Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance

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ThisisNotMedicine responded:

"I find this letter from Glen Hagele to Sandy to be nothing short of
reprehensible. As a licensed physician, I believe that ASCRS should be
informed about the ABUSIVE behavior of this man who claims to
represent the standards of excellence within their refractive surgery
subspecialty.

In my opinion, Glen Hagele has done a great disservice to ASCRS by
publishing this letter in a public newgroup like Google. His treatment
of Sandy is very consistent with what so many post refractives with
complications have reported experiencing from their own surgeons and
from the industry itself. I think Hagele's comments make it much
easier for a naive individual to believe that people who experience
serious problems after elective refractive surgery are frequently
abandoned by an industry that minimizes their problems, blames the
patient, and abandons the inflicted."


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