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...FIND OUT HOW MUCH LASIK TRAINING YOUR DOCTOR HAS. Some ophthalmologists apparently start zapping corneas after little more than a weekend seminar. That might be enough preparation for a surgeon who is already skilled, but you may decide to select a more experienced doctor, such as a cornea specialist who has completed a year or two of additional training. Early studies also showed that the complication rates for individual surgeons underwent two significant drops, after 300 and 600 procedures. Proponents will tell you that LASIK training and technology are much better now and that today's doctors are perfectly proficient...
...sting and, in inexperienced hands, burn and scar if they penetrate too deep. Worse, up to 20% of CO2-laser patients (and possibly some Erbium ones as well) risk ending up with whitened skin one to two years after the procedure, according to Dr. Jay Burns, a laser specialist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center...
Tracey McNamara had never seen anything like it. In July, dead crows began turning up by the dozens at New York City's Bronx Zoo. By August, McNamara, the zoo's staff pathologist, had collected carcasses of 40 birds. Meanwhile Dr. Deborah Asnis, an infectious-disease specialist at Flushing Hospital in Queens, reported the admission of two elderly patients with muscle weakness, fever and confusion...
...Iain Johnston is unquestionably the leading specialist to combine enormous expertise on Chinese foreign relations with a superb knowledge of international relations theory," he says...
...extra playing time that injuries afforded to the reserves will help next season as the Crimson will graduate four invaluable seniors. Forcum, Nash, defensive specialist Catherine Betti and outside hitter Anne Schafer ended their Harvard careers this fall...