Is LASIK Safe? Eye Surgeon Reveals Hidden Risks | Dr. Cynthia MacKay, MD
Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
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🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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LASIK seemed like a miracle—until it started ruining lives. Chronic pain, vision loss, even suicide… and the FDA stays silent 👁️
Today, I’m joined by Dr. Cynthia MacKay, a Columbia eye surgeon whose colleague invented LASIK. She’s been warning people for years—and now she’s exposing the truth in her book The Unsightly Truth and doc Broken Eyes.
I had LASIK 10 years ago… and after this convo, I’m not sure it went as well as I thought. 👀
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| 0:00.0 | There is no person who has had LASIC who does not have complications. |
| 0:06.4 | I am absolutely terrified that my eyes were damaged from LASIC surgery. |
| 0:12.2 | The FDA is not taking care of the health of the public. |
| 0:17.1 | They're not warning about the dangers of LASIC. |
| 0:20.3 | What are the risk factors for somebody who's had LASIC? |
| 0:23.1 | It started wear off and then they opt to go in again. |
| 0:25.6 | Don't have repeat LASIC's devastating side effects, 30% face complications, |
| 0:59.4 | 10% endure chronic eye pain, and even multiple cases of people unaliving themselves, |
| 1:04.4 | have been linked to botched procedures. |
| 1:06.6 | Yet, the FDA stays silent. |
| 1:08.9 | On this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Cynthia Mackay, a 40-year Columbia ophthalmologist and trailblazer whose colleague invented LASIC. |
| 1:17.6 | And from the beginning, she has spoken out against it. |
| 1:19.9 | Today, she's exposing LASIC's Dark Truth. |
| 1:22.4 | Her book, The Unsightly Truth and Documentary, Broken Eyes Coming Out in August this summer. Reveal why the surgery |
| 1:28.9 | is risking your vision and why you should think twice. This is also an extremely interesting |
| 1:34.4 | interview for me to do because I got LASIC about 10 years ago. And now I'm not so sure it went off |
| 1:39.9 | without a hitch as I'll get into. Watch this episode on the Real Alex Clark YouTube or Culture Apothecary on Spotify, |
| 1:45.7 | and please share this everywhere. |
| 1:47.5 | It could save a life and save healthy eyes. |
| 1:51.0 | It would help the show a lot for you to pause right now |
| 1:53.3 | and leave a five-star review sharing how this show has positively impacted your life. |
| 1:56.9 | It takes 10 seconds. |
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