It’s the early 1990s.  Dr. Robert Maloney, UCLA professor of ophthalmology, had just done the first LASIK surgery in western North America as part of the original FDA clinical trials.  The surgery was a success and Robert realized LASIK had the potential to improve the eye sight of millions of people.

But potential patients were worried.    

It was a brand new procedure.  So much could go wrong.

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