Mar 31, 2010: Nepal's Hawkeye Pierce

In Nepal, where medical facilities are limited, especially in rural areas, there is a master surgeon called Dr Sanduk Ruit. He's an eye specialist, and my reference to Hawkeye pierce is that he does production line (meatball) surgery, in tents, with limited equipment, and has restored the eyesight to between 3 and 4 MILLION people.

I couldn't figure out what the hell the picture was supposed to be of, at first.

But can he perform these surgeries blindfolded?

Kidding aside...

*Eye am very impressed with the lens he views the world through.

*He was probably quite focused on orbiting around some optic visionaries as a pupil.

*I see his circle of influence continues to dilate.

Okay, eye am done.

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Obviously there's a pretty good dentist in the neighborhood also.

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Originally Posted by capnhowdy Obviously there's a pretty good dentist in the neighborhood also.

This may be linked with the Fred Hollows Foundation.

Fred was an eye specialist who did a lot of such operations, and more than that, helped set up programs in developing countries to enable them to do the operations (including making new lenses, etc) themselves.
I think he did work in Nepal and East Africa.

A quick Google search reveals that "In 1980, while working on a Nepal Blindness Survey, [Ruit] met Fred Hollows who became his mentor. Fred helped make his life goal clear: the restoration of eyesight to people who were unnecessarily blind."

Source: http://www.cureblindness.org/who/dr-sanduk-ruit/

The woman pictured above needs to be ironed.