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PUBLICATION EXCLUSIVE: Military refractive surgery enhances ophthalmic knowledge, service members’ readiness
I became interested in laser corneal refractive surgery in 1985. I sent my then-fellow Ralph Zabel, MD, to England to work with Prof. John Marshall for a year. Ralph, while initially skeptical, became a believer after about 6 months and co-authored the first publication on excimer laser PRK in the rabbit, describing the healing response that included subepithelial fibrosis with corneal haze and compensatory epithelial hyperplasia. He returned to Minnesota for a second year of fellowship, and we decided to get an excimer laser at the Phillips Eye Institute in (Read more...)