‘Broken Eyes’ makes world premiere at MSPIFF
The documentary is a collection of stories about patients harmed after getting LASIK surgery and plays at the Minneapolis Saint Paul International Film Festival this Saturday.
Broken Eyes
39,572 views as of October 2025!
Executive Producer: Dr MacKay
When LASIK eye surgery destroys a filmmaker’s vision, she decides to make a movie about it. What starts out as an attempt to hang onto her lifelong passion turns into a harrowing investigation into a multibillion industry and the discovery of an underground network of thousands of patients permanently scarred by LASIK, the so-called “safest elective surgery on the market. Postcards is an award-winning series showcasing the arts, history, and cultural heritage of western Minnesota and beyond. Funding for Postcards comes from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Dr MacKay, “The Unsightly Truth of Laser Vision Correction: LASIK Surgery Makes Healthy Eyes Sick”
Dr MacKay talks about LASIK surgery, a cosmetic surgical eye procedure. She outlines why patients want the procedure (which is supposed to eliminate the need to wear glasses) and talks about the nature of the procedure (which involves alterations to the cornea). The problem is a high percentage of patients suffer life-altering complications as a result of the surgery – but many patients are not told of the risks prior to consenting to the surgery.
Dr MacKay MD Podcast
Dr. MacKay is a pioneer for the campaign to stop LASIK. In her own words you will hear how this brave Eye Surgeon, Professor, Author and Film Producer has spent decades dedicated to the victims of LASIK. You will hear about mass corruption within the medical profession and the FDA. Tune in to find out more.
Doctors recommend avoiding LASIK. New FDA warnings in 2023.
For years the media has reported that LASIK may not be as safe as advertised based on the many patients LASIK has left injured, disabled, or even dead.
LASIK reshapes your cornea to permanently create an optical zone for vision correction that is much smaller than the optical zone of contact lenses (6.5mm vs 8-10mm+ respectively). This means that even for an average sized pupil in the dark (~7mm) some induced higher order aberrations should be expected to cause halos/starbursts, but if you have large pupils this type of vision loss can be severe enough to make driving at night dangerous. An optical zone smaller than your pupil size means that when viewing dark scenes in movies or games anything bright like UI elements, characters, subtitles, etc will have an ugly glow effect around them. Higher order aberrations cannot be corrected by glasses or soft contacts.
I’d also suggest researching some of the rare but devastating complications like corneal neuropathic pain that could leave you permanently disabled and unable to even sleep through the night. Here’s the scariest part: There’s apparently no way to predict which patients are at a higher risk of this complication in order to screen them out. It isn’t understood why this happens to certain patients. Refractive surgeries are like playing Russian Roulette not only with a patient’s eyes, but with their very lives.
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