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Another, although comparatively muted explosion gets the plot moving in Brown's fifth novel, Half a Heart (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 402 pages; $24). The year is 1986, and Miriam Vener, Jewish and in her mid-40s, lives in Houston with her ophthalmologist husband Barry and their three children. Amid the splendors of her gated community and rambling, expensive house, Miriam sports a troubled conscience, for she has another child, a half-black daughter whom she has not seen in nearly 18 years. Her husband knows about this chapter of her life, closed before he met her: the time during...
Thank you for the wonderfully balanced article on laser surgery to reshape the cornea and help improve vision [HEALTH, Oct. 11]. As a cornea-trained ophthalmologist who performs LASIK, I am always concerned that patients will have unreasonably high expectations because they have heard only the "good side" of the surgery. Although the results are impressive, we are currently not able to achieve more than a 60% to 70% portion of 20/20 vision because of the range of biological variation in the general population. Not all people correct predictably after a given amount of applied laser energy. Remember, the goal...
...could turn those dreams into reality--in less than 15 minutes. Just settle onto the surgical couch at an ophthalmologist's office and let an incredibly precise excimer laser reshape your eyes, or more accurately your corneas. Then get up and experience a bright new world. At least that's what doctors--and, more important, their ecstatic patients--are saying about LASIK. That's short for laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis), which could well become the most popular elective surgery among baby boomers since they all had their tonsils removed in the 1950s...
...TAKE YOUR TIME TO FIND THE RIGHT PHYSICIAN. Do you feel comfortable with the doctor's explanations? Or are you getting pressured by a sales pitch? Insist on an ophthalmologist who will meet with you before the operation--and not just 15 minutes before--to examine your eyes as well as take your medical history and answer your questions. Be sure to tell the doctor if you or anyone in your family has ever had a corneal disorder, diabetes or an autoimmune disease. Such conditions may increase the chances that laser surgery will severely damage your eyesight. If you have...
...didn't think anything was seriously wrong--until three days later when the eye puffed up and turned weepy and red. I called Glen Ellyn Clinic near my home in west suburban Chicago, and a couple of hours later I found myself seated in a darkened room across from ophthalmologist Mary Mehaffey...