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...such luck. Last week Southeastern Eye Center, a Greensboro, North Carolina, clinic specializing in cataract surgery, announced that it intends to file a defamation suit against Dateline for a May 4 feature titled "Cataract Cowboys." The segment focused its harsh lights on scalpel-happy surgeons who earn millions by allegedly operating on patients who don't need surgery...
...three healthy volunteers posing as patients. As Dateline's correspondent Brian Ross admitted in the broadcast, all three were correctly diagnosed and turned away. "You don't need surgery now," a clinic doctor told Beatrice Caine twice. Undaunted, however, Dateline sent Caine (who has a small but medically insignificant cataract) back to the clinic, where she asked to be scheduled for surgery. Then, as the camera rolled, correspondent Ross suddenly interrupted Caine's presurgery meeting, badgering the stunned doctor that he was about to subject a healthy patient to "unnecessary surgery." Caine was "only a few tests and a half...
Southeastern Eye Center, which earns $12 million annually, mostly from the 5,000 Medicare-paid cataract operations performed there each year, claims its business is down 30% since the NBC report. Executive director Mark McDaniel says the Caine case got as far as it did only because of a bureaucratic mistake by a nonmedical assistant, and the error would have been caught at the next screening. "We want our reputation restored," McDaniel says...
...CATARACT OF LODORE by Robert Southey, illustrated by David Catrow (Henry Holt; $15.95). The author, who lived from 1774 to 1843, is one of England's forgotten poet laureates. Yet Southey's story The Three Bears has endured for more than 100 years. Now another of his children's tales is resurrected, thanks to David Catrow's lively paintings. The rhythms and sights of a waterfall should lull and delight young readers well into the next century...
...have one in N-butyl butyrate, a chemical found in, of all things, cantaloupes, peaches and plums. In fruit, it contributes to overall flavor; in the atmosphere, it should help reduce mankind's siege of the ozone layer, in turn relieving the onslaught of cancer- and cataract-causing ultraviolet light...