Cataract Surgery — A Modern Attitude toward a Technologic Explosion

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DURING the past 40 years a much more liberal approach to the indications for cataract surgery has developed. This tendency has been especially apparent in the United States, where the number of cataract operations performed per capita population considerably exceeds that of any other country in the Western World. This development has resulted in some criticism from those who maintain that this more liberal interpretation is not medically, socially and economically justified. The controversy has placed ophthalmology in the "eye" of a surgical storm.1 An examination of the changing scene of cataract surgery will help provide some answers to the . . .

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