Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Using concealed video cameras, the show's producers sent to the clinic 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...
...burgundy Cadillac races along the Mississippi highway, droplets of rain stipple the windshield and storm clouds signal rougher weather ahead. Dr. Tom Tucker, a circuit-riding abortion doctor, is on his car phone with a clinic. "How's it look?" he asks. There's a problem: it seems a large, angry man is raising hell in the parking lot while 40 antiabortion protesters picket the clinic. "This," says Tucker, his right hand slowly sliding down to touch the 9-mm Glock pistol wedged beside his seat, "is where I start to feel the tingle...
Arriving at the Mississippi Women's Medical Clinic in Jackson, Tucker learns that the cops have chased away the crazed protester, but someone yells, "God will bring you down! Woe to the man who will take the blood of an innocent child!" A young mother displays a diapered infant. Tucker shakes his head and walks inside; he changes into blue scrubs and starts on the first of this afternoon's 23 abortions...
...Tucker slumps on the clinic sofa eating a bag of salted nuts when a nurse hands him his latest piece of hate mail -- "No one has to kill you. You are already dead," it reads. To get home to Birmingham, Tucker must drive 250 miles that night...