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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...
...tests and a half-hour away from the operating table," said Ross in a voice-over. For Dateline producers, this was just the sort of hard- hitting video journalism that would put them in the same league as CBS's reigning 60 Minutes. For officials at Southeastern Eye Center, it was grounds for legal action...
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...
Sensing an untold story, Sidey hit the rails to interview people at all levels of the freight industry. He rode a Conrail train up the west side of the Hudson River Valley, getting an engineer's-eye view of spectacular scenery; half a continent away, he observed the switchings, couplings and uncouplings at a vast freight yard in North Platte, Nebraska. These experiences called up memories of his Iowa childhood and his long romance with railroads: "I remember as a four-year-old hearing the train whistle on a winter morning and pressing my nose against an icy windowpane...
Most ruinous, title actress Kathryn Zaremba, a nine-year-old from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, is loud and clear but never vulnerable or soft -- she's like Ethel Merman at her brassiest, without the compensating musicality, rather than a cuddlesome child. By the end there's hardly a wet eye in the house...