Lasik Eye Surgery Patient Vision Trouble

Emretta Hinman just wanted to be able to see better. But instead of correcting her severe farsightedness, Hinman said, lasik eye surgery performed by a Bergenfield doctor triggered a slew of new problems that left her unable to drive or remain in bright daylight for long.

Well-known eye surgeon Joseph Dello Russo never explained the risks of lasik surgery before he operated on her in 2001, the Connecticut woman told jurors in Newark, as a malpractice trial opened Wednesday. Then, in the months afterward, she said, he didn't take her complaints of poor eyesight seriously.

"I was scared. I really wanted to know what was wrong," Hinman testified, her voice breaking. "He said that I was just having an abnormal healing, that it was just healing slow."

Dello Russo's lawyer, John Tomaszewski, called him a "pioneer" in the field of lasik eye surgery who continued to be a caring doctor after Hinman's procedure.

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