I hope you read the comments I just posted, do not give up i know how you feel! ***@****
First, I agree that most class action suits don't actually accomplish much.
Second, I would be more inclined to sue doctors who don't disclose known potential problems with the lenses. Many people are perfectly happy with Restor lenses, which implies that they are not inherently "bad" or "defective". They just don't work well for everyone. Patients need/deserve to know before having the surgery what the known/expected possible risks and complications are. Based on the posts in this forum, many patients are uninformed.
Note that I am NOT a fan of malpractice suits. I think most of them (probaby 90% or more) are without merit. I understand that in any medical procedure, there are many unpredictable things that can go wrong, and I do not think doctors should be held accountable for those, except in the very rare cases that they are truly negligent.
However, this is a very different case, where there are well-known and potentially severe problems, and full disclosure should be mandatory. When the lenses were new, it was understandable that the side-effects would not be known. After a year or two, there was no longer any excuse for a doctor to either be unaware of the issues, or to fail to disclose them.
I think there needs to be a class action suit. But then again only the lawyers get rich.
I have not heard about it.
Dr. O.