I made my first mission ophthalmology trip in 1979 under the direction of my then-senior partner, William S. Harris, MD, of Dallas. We traveled to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and spent 1 week performing phacoemulsification and planned extracapsular cataract extraction with posterior chamber lens implants on an indigent population.
Our hosts were the San Pedro Sula Lions, and a group of well-known U.S. surgeons including the late Bill Harris, MD, Steve Shearing, MD, Guy Knolle, MD, and I performed phacoemulsification and planned ECCE with posterior chamber lens implantation on about (Read more...)
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