Over the years, Daniel S. Durrie, MD, has been through several eras of transition. In his early years as a surgeon, nearly all cataract surgeries were done in a hospital setting.
“When I was doing surgery in the hospital, we were keeping patients there for 3 or 4 days,” he said. “I was one of the first people to start doing outpatient cataract surgery in 1979 at the hospital and first to do surgery in ambulatory surgical centers in the ’80s and ’90s. Even back then, there was a lot of discussion of where that was going.”
Now, ASCs are an everyday part of