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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...
...only a few 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...
Demanding a retraction and an apology, Southeastern's attorneys complain that not only was undercover patient Caine's aggressive pursuit of surgery unusual, it bordered on entrapment. The clinic's routine procedure of screening patients at least one more time before surgery was mentioned only at the end of the report, after the damning footage...
...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...
Humans may be partly to blame. In 1977, according to one theory, Virginia's hunters felt there was a shortage of raccoons in the region. As a result, perhaps several thousand raccoons were imported both legally and illegally from Southeastern states, and some of those animals apparently harbored rabies. Since then, raccoon rabies has been moving outward from Virginia and West Virginia at a rate of 25 to 40 miles a year and has invaded all Northeastern states except Vermont, Maine and Rhode Island. In New York, which now leads the nation in animal-rabies cases (1,761 last year...