Callers to a provincial cataract surgery hotline say physicians are breaking the law by charging patients directly for a surgery that should be paid for by the Medical Care Plan (MCP).
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Woman goes in for cataract surgery, has 27 contact lenses removed from her eye
Enlarge (credit: Getty | UniversalImagesGroup) Sometimes, there’s more to old age than meets the eye—sometimes, it’s 27 contact lenses jammed in there, according to a case study published this month in the British Medical Journal. A 67-year-old British woman, complaining of eye discomfort and dryness, was scheduled last November to have routine surgery to remove […]
WARNING: Surgeons remove 27 contact lenses from woman’s eye during cataract surgery
CONTACT LENSES must be used with a degree of caution, as one woman from the West Midlands has discovered after 27 were removed from one eye during routine cataract surgery Daily Express :: Health Feed
NHS struck by new operations crisis as patients wait for knee, hip and cataract surgery
GETTY Patients waiting for knee, hip and cataract surgery are facing long delays, report finds Emergency funding requests by health bodies for the once-routine procedures have shot up in recent years, according to an investigation by the British Medical Journal. And patients face a postcode lottery on who receives the life-changing NHS operations, with varying […]
NHS struck by new operations crisis as patients wait for knee, hip and cataract surgery
PATIENTS waiting for crucial knee, hip and cataract operations are facing long delays, a damning report claims. Daily Express :: Health Feed
