Word: postcataract
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...Patients view the YAG as a kind of miracle," says Dr. Stephen Trokel of New York City's Presbyterian Hospital, one of about a dozen U.S. medical centers equipped with the $100,000 machine. Indeed, Florence Clemens, 74, one of Trokel's postcataract patients, reports that although no anesthetic was used, "there was no pain, just the sensation of a very bright, multicolored light." Best of all, when the $900 procedure was over, Clemens could "go right home and start dinner...
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