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Sight for sore eyes

It takes Sanduk Ruit about five minutes to change someone's life. In that time, the Nepalese doctor can make a small incision in his patient's eye, remove the cloudy cataract...

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Miracle Mile

What do you get when you combine six eye surgeons, thirteen runners, six educators, two nonprofits, 871 cataract patients, 63,000 students, two of the fastest men on the planet, and...

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Visionary

The world has around 40m blind people, around 90% of them in the developing world. Much of this blindness treatable. "Second Suns”, a new book by David Oliver Relin, tells...

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Books: New and noteworthy

Tells the story of two doctors – one from the U.S., one from Nepal – who have worked to stop preventable blindness through the Himalayan Cataract Project; by the late...

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Lessons In Healthcare From 20,000 Feet: Bhutan's Solution To Eye Care

In Bhutan, there are only eight ophthalmologists. With a population of roughly 750,000, that’s about 90,000 patients for each eye doctor.

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Eyesight to the blind: Cheap, fast surgery tackles cataracts

They may look like the "Odd Couple" of ophthalmology, but a Nepalese doctor and his American counterpart's promotion of a dirt-cheap, ultra-fast, assembly-line form of surgery is restoring sight to...

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Second Suns: Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives

Superb surgeons have qualities that set them apart. In addition to the intelligence needed to practice good medicine, they possess dexterity, physical stamina and, equally important, supreme confidence in their...

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Second Suns: Saving Sight in the Developing World

A new book by the co-author of "Three Cups of Tea" profiles a pair of doctors who pioneered a way to solve the most preventable form of blindness

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New York Times Article on the Himalayan Cataract Project

In 5 Minutes, He Lets the Blind See | Written by: Nicholas Kristof

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