June is #CataractAwarenessMonth, which highlights the leading cause of vision loss worldwide.
Cataract surgery used to be an ordeal that upended patients’ lives. Then in the 1960s, Lasker Laureate Charles Kelman transformed the surgery into an outpatient procedure. 🧪
In the early 1960s, cataract surgery was an ordeal that upended patients’ lives. During the operation, the surgeon made a cut that extended halfway around the eye’s front surface, reached in with forceps, and gently pulled out the cloudy lens. After the operation, patients spent up to 10 days in a hospital bed, sometimes with their
