ESCRS, HSIOIRS presidents welcome meeting attendees in Athens

ATHENS, Greece — In welcoming the audience of the 20th European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons winter meeting, ESCRS president David Spalton, MD, said he was honored and delighted to do so in the city that gave birth to modern medicine 2,500 years ago.“It is amazing to look out of my bedroom’s window, see the Acropolis and think that there is where everything started. In the golden age of Pericles, Hippocrates established the basic principles and ethics of modern medicine. His ‘do no harm’ is still underlying our medical practice today,” Spalton said.