European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 modern living a photo a 10minute Eye operation in Moscow features five doctors working two minutes each on product online surgery in Moscow associated press patients lying on padded tables Glide in unison along the stainless steel tracks of the operating theater while soft music plays in the at each of five stations along the con a surgeon working through a pow Erful Microscope concentrates on his As signed segment of a delicate after seven to 10 each patient slides out of the operating room As another silently Rolls in from the opposite its hardly medical science a soviet scientist has brought production line techniques to an Eye microsurgery Center in and predicts that with in 18 months some of the work will be done by the operating conveyor was the vision of professor Svyatoslav director of the Moscow research Institute of Eye the intent is to make High technology Eye microsurgery available to More people he told journalists during a press Institute officials say a team of five surgeons working a two hour shift on the conveyor typically can perform 40 operations for myopia or other during a recent two month Feodorov 20 surgeons performed More than operations on the conveyor with Only four minor Complick in the Institute performed Eye operations and with the new conveyor system speeding up some of those surge Feodorov says the yearly total is expected to Rise to this Institute should be called medi Cal factory 1 for production of peo ple with Good Feodorov he flatly rejected suggestions that the conveyor sacrifices Quality for Quantity criticism of Many soviet it would be an exaggeration to say that any surgeon performs every part of an operation equally he said in a recent interview with the government newspaper when every surgeon docs the thing lie is particularly Good at on the the Best effect is the Institute currently has 10 surgical brigades that work in two hour shifts on the the most skilled surgeon in each brigade handles the most critical part of each on a monday afternoon in the conveyor was devoted to radial scr Toto my surgery pioneered by the 57year old Feodorov to Correct the atmosphere was relaxed As correspondents Clad in gowns and masks were led into the operating Igor Yatsena 34yearold chief of the surgical team on even found time to Chat As his patients rolled he explained that a red and Green timer on a Wall opposite the surgeons helps them keep on schedule More than two minutes per patient per each patient is accompanied by a Chart that passes the surgeons at Eye it details the specifics of each calculated earlier with the help of a diag Nostic the chief surgeon can communicate with the rest of the team through head sets much like those worn by airline i patients receive local most Are Able to go Home the Day of an opera Tion and return later for followup treat Feodorov said operations to improve myopia remove cat treat glaucoma and implant artificial lenses All lend themselves to division into equal periods of More Complex operations still require a conventional operating radial which he developed in the continues to be a topic of debate in the the procedure involves making radial slices in the Cornea of the Eye to Correct mild or medium degree nearsightedness caused by a misshapen a government study indicated last november that the procedure improved the vision of All 435 people but some doctors say that the results of such surgery Are difficult to predict and that Over correction or under correction of vision Are still too Erm Bombeck i dont spend my life worrying about but some times i wonder How history will regard when they go through the microfilm of our exis tence will they just see the the violent behave the dishonesty and the or will they dig deeper and resurrect the decency that existed in great numbers will they duly record All the drunk or will they note that nearly every citizen stops for a red Light it can be three in the morning and there wont Beer car within 50 Miles of that and yet most people will Stop dead and wait for the Light to they dont even know Why they do will they know Only of the Jaywalker and la break or will they reflect on nearly every american who stops and looks both ways on a one Way Street the clippings will reveal a civilization that was arrogant and considered miss manners a writer of yet How Many people do you know who consistently say thank you to a recording and rarely hang up be fore the recording is finished of there is an abundance of but theres an entire generation of people out there who sleep every night with the tag from a Pillow in their it is there Only because it is printed that to remove it is who to Check a Pillow inspector who visits your Home and demands to see your labels we Are an orderly people who fold up a Road map after weve read even if it takes three we return chairs under the table when we leave a and to this Day i will not waste air in a restroom dryer that blows on your but will keep my hand under it until it shuts were a tolerant nation that makes the Best of an intolerable when Given a paper dress in the gynaecologist is i find myself lining up the Shoul Ders and arranging the Sheet in a drape As if in consid ering buying it takes a lot to break our for years we have tolerated envelopes with not enough glue on the flaps to hold them Gas pump hoses that reach Only one Side of the car the Side you have to move the car to and parking spaces that Are wide enough to accommodate your car but prohibit you from getting out of were a proud people who get our dogs Teeth cleaned and who put on full makeup to go to an aerobics class to we paint Flowers on garbage cans and Plant Trees in our office it would be Nice if future generations knew How caring we i had an important appointment the other i checked my own the digital one in the the Large one outside the Bank building and then stopped a stranger and asked him what time it were a civilization that hard to to los Angeles time Syndicate