Kingerski committed suicide in January after months of seeing doctors and being unable to carry on with his favorite police profession.
“I can no longer bear this,” he said in a message that he left for us. I lost everything because of Lasik. We received that notice left,” Kingerski remarked.
The Pittsburgh LasikPlus doctor was contacted by KDKA-TV for an interview, but the office declined and instead released a statement.
Although we are unable to discuss the circumstances of any patient due to legal restrictions, suicide is typically not
Attributable to a single cause. The statement stated, “To be clear, there is no clinical evidence linking LASIK eye surgery to suicide.”
The office responded with another statement when questioned about the dangers of LASIK.
“A copy of the informed consent form is given to each of these patients for review during the pre-operative visit, usually a