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Editor's Page

• Joining the Debate

  By Gillian McDermott, MA Editor-in-Chief and Conni Bergmann Koury, Executive Editor

Today's Topics

• Choosing a Presbyopia-Correcting IOL for the Avid Marksman

  By Steven J. Dell, MD; Jay S. Pepose, MD, PHD; Karl G. Stonecipher, MD; Stephen A. Updegraff, MD; Jeffery C. Whitsett, MD; and J. Trevor Woodhams, MD

Inside Eyetube.net

• Introducing Eyetube TV

  By William B. Trattler, MD

Peer Review

• Presbyopia- Correcting IOLs

  By Malaika David, Associate Editor

Cataract Surgery

• FOCUS ON PHACOEMULSIFICATION: Improving Phacoemulsification

  Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today invited seven expert surgeons to share tips drawn from their own cataract surgical technique. As an accompaniment, each has provided a video demonstration that is available at Eyetube.net.

  By David F. Chang, MD; Robert J. Cionni, MD; Uday Devgan. MD; Steven H. Dewey, MD; Jason Jones, MD; Erik L. Mertens, MD, FEBOphth; and Bruce Wallace III; MD

• Feature Story: OVDs in Challenging Surgeries

  Two surgeons share challenging cataract cases with outcomes that were improved by strategies using ophthalmic viscosurgical devices.

  By Garry P. Condon, MD and Michael E. Snyder, MD

• My Most Difficult Case: Suffering and Pain Lead to Creativity

  By Steve A. Arshinoff, MD, FRCSC

Refractive Surgery

• Complex Case Management: Decreasing Vision and Cataracts After RK and AK

  By Stephen F. Brint, MD; Mitchell A. Jackson, MD; and J. Bradley Randleman, MD

• IOLs: How to Succeed With the AcrySof IQ Restor Lens

  Six steps for excellent outcomes after cataract surgery with this multifocal IOL.

  By Thomas G. Adell, MD

• IOLs: Offering Patients the Premium Experience

  Increase your IOL conversion rate, patients’ satisfaction, and referrals by concentrating on the full experience, not just the lenses.

  By Dwayne K. Logan, MD

• IOLs: The Maker of the First IOL Introduces a New Product to Surgeons

  Innovative material, design, and easy surgical handling highlight Rayner’s return to the American market.

  By Mark Packer, MD

Cover Stories

• The Struggle for Compromise

  How health care reform is dividing Congress, businesses, and middle-class America.

  By Stephen Daily, Contributing Editor

• My Vision for US Health Care

  Ophthalmologists describe features of a system they think would work in this country.

• Show Me Tort Reform: the Missouri Experience

  The changes in one state and their implications for the nation.

  By John C. Hagan III, MD; John F. Doane, MD; and Jim Denning

• Point/Counterpoint: What does the New Bill Mean to Physicians and Patients?

  The ASCRS’ positions on current health care legislation.

  By Rpger F. Steinert, MD, and Priscilla P. Arnold, MD, on behalf of the executive committee of ASCRS

• The Canadian Health Care System: Socialized Insurance, Not Socialized Medicine

  A study found that delays for non-emergency procedures do exist.

  By Conni Bergmann Koury, Exectutive Editor

• Health Care Reform Necessitates: Maximizing Efficiency in the ASC

  The importance of efficiency in an environment of lower reimbursements.

  By Paul S. Koch, MD

Departments

• Innovations

• 5 Questions with Brian S. Boxer Wachler, MD

  Dr. Boxer Wachler comments on the refocused attention on LASIK and explains how he runs his practice in Beverly Hills, California.

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