Waking Up Blind - Lawsuits Over Eye Surgery

Waking Up Blind - Lawsuits Over Eye Surgery Review

Like several of the reviewers I was unable to put this excellent expose book down. I was forwarned by another ophthalmologist that he turned the pages so fast they almost burst into flames. I read the book in one sitting finishing at 3:00 AM. Reading this is an absolute must for any ophthalmologist, most physicians and any reader that likes the medical genre.

I am a board certified ophthalmologist that trained at Emory's Ophthalmology Department. I left Emory the year before Dwight Cavanaugh (who does not deserve to be called "Doctor") arrived. I applaud the courage and integrity of Dr. Tom Harbin whom I know by reputation as a physician's physician.

This book made me so ashamed of Emory, ashamed of many of the staff physicians that trained me, ashamed of the way that physicians and putative leaders of the field of ophthalmology and Emory University betrayed the trust of their patients and the general public.

I believe it is a travesty of the highest order that Dwight Cavanaugh still has a license to practice medicine, still holds a very high appointment at a medical school department of ophthalmology, and exposed to medical students and residents. In my opinion he should not only have his license taken away from him but he should be in jail for felony "battery" on his unsuspecting and trusting victims.

I am buying 6 of these books and sending them to ophthalmology friends of mine with the admonition to send it to other ophthalmologists after they have read it.

As a further disgusting footnote during this entire mess that Cavanaugh created I was repeatedly ask to donate funds to Emory's Ophthalmology Department to finance all the "wonderful things" that Cavanaugh was doing. This at a time that the development department was fully aware of the many lawsuits and unecessary surgery that Cavanaugh was doing.

For an Emory trained Ophthalmologist this is pure schadenfreude.

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Waking Up Blind - Lawsuits Over Eye Surgery Overview

Imagine trusting a doctor--with the best reputation in the state--to do surgery on your eyes. Now imagine the worst of outcomes. Blindness in an eye that you learn, in fact, never needed surgery. And the medical center where you were treated is ignoring the problem.

Waking Up Blind is the story of how an eye surgeon became the cause of an array of medical problems for his patients. It is also the story of how one of the nation's premier medical centers tried to conceal the growing scandal. The faculty who exposed the problems were punished. Official committees and the university leaders minimized the misconduct. Slowly, lawsuits and publicity brought some to light in bits and pieces.

With the use of court documents, transcripts of tape-recorded conversations, interviews, and personal observation, Dr. Tom Harbin presents this case from the very beginning, uncovering all levels of wrongdoing and secrecy. Waking Up Blind will shock the reader with its candid exploration of the dark side of medicine.

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