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To: Katelew who wrote (405760)	1/21/2011 8:54:04 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794335

To explore the idea, just find an established clinic that somewhat specializes in the surgery and has the latest generation equipment. Fantastic! I saw the eye doctor today. He said another option was to replace the lens, as they do in cataract surgery. It is more expensive (like twice as much or more than lasik), but if you have a diagnosis of cataracts it's a medical expense. My eye doctor took great pains to explain everything and answer my questions. He said I should go to the clinic where he got his lasik if I wanted to get evaluated. That was good enough for me. To get back on topic for LindyBill, I told my eye doctor about the National Geographic program on North Korea. A medical team from Tibet went in there and an American photographer was allowed to accompany them. They wanted to perform 1000 cataract operations in ten days, which they did. The patients wanted to see so they could view portraits of their "dear leader", which was the only decoration any of them had in their miserable houses. When they found out they could see they broke into tears upon seeing the "dear leader," and thanked him so piteously it made me want to shoot a hole in my TV in protest. They gave no credit at all to the medical team. The photographer sort of bootlegged the footage and National Geographic made a good video out of it. At the time she was the only American in the whole miserable excuse for a country and probably would have been arrested if they had known her intent. The medical team was shown facades of buildings that looked nice from the outside but had no useful function outside of the propaganda value. If those people were not so brain-washed they would rise up and do the right thing.