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    A Russian eye surgeon named Vyatoslav Fyodorov performs radial keratotomy surgery in a highly efficient and routine manner. He has nine clinics where patients lie on moving tables arranged in a wheel formation around six surgeons. Each surgeon performs one part of the procedure before the wheel indexes to the next station. This assembly line approach allows Fyodorov to treat many more patients at a lower cost than conventional surgery. While controversial, he claims it also improves success rates.

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    A Russian eye surgeon named Vyatoslav Fyodorov performs radial keratotomy surgery in a highly efficient and routine manner. He has nine clinics where patients lie on moving tables arranged in a wheel formation around six surgeons. Each surgeon performs one part of the procedure before the wheel indexes to the next station. This assembly line approach allows Fyodorov to treat many more patients at a lower cost than conventional surgery. While controversial, he claims it also improves success rates.

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    A Russian eye surgeon named Vyatoslav Fyodorov performs radial keratotomy surgery in a highly efficient and routine manner. He has nine clinics where patients lie on moving tables arranged in a wheel formation around six surgeons. Each surgeon performs one part of the procedure before the wheel indexes to the next station. This assembly line approach allows Fyodorov to treat many more patients at a lower cost than conventional surgery. While controversial, he claims it also improves success rates.

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    A Russian eye surgeon named Vyatoslav Fyodorov performs radial keratotomy surgery in a highly efficient and routine manner. He has nine clinics where patients lie on moving tables arranged in a wheel formation around six surgeons. Each surgeon performs one part of the procedure before the wheel indexes to the next station. This assembly line approach allows Fyodorov to treat many more patients at a lower cost than conventional surgery. While controversial, he claims it also improves success rates.

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    The Henry Ford of ophthalmology


    High-volume operations can be found in some surprising places even surgery.
    Not all surgery conforms to our preconceptions of the individual super-
    craftsperson, aided by his or her back-up team, performing the whole operation
    from first incision to final stitch. any surgical procedures are, in fact, fairly
    routine. !here can be few e"amples, however, of surgery being made #uite as
    routine as in the $ussian clinics of eye surgeon, %vyatoslav &yodorov.
    He has been called the Henry &ord of ophthalmology, and his methods are
    indeed closer to the automobile assembly plant than the conventional operating
    theatre. !he surgical procedure in which he speciali'es is a revolutionary
    treatment for myopia (short-sightedness) called radial keratotomy. *n the
    treatment the curvature of the cornea is corrected surgically still a controversial
    procedure among some in the profession, but very successful for &yodorov. &rom
    his oscow head#uarters he controls nine clinics throughout $ussia.
    !he source of his fame is not the treatment as such other eye surgeons
    around the world perform similar procedures but the way he organi'es the
    business of the surgery itself. +ight patients lie on moving tables arranged like the
    spokes of a wheel around its central a"is, with only their eyes uncovered. %i"
    surgeons, each with his or her station, are positioned around the rim of the
    wheel so that they can access the patients eyes. ,fter the surgeons have
    completed their own particular portion of the whole procedure, the wheel inde"es
    round to take patients to the ne"t stage of their treatment. !he surgeons check to
    make sure that the previous stage of the operation was performed correctly and
    then go on to perform their own task. +ach surgeons activity is monitored on !-
    screens overhead and the surgeons talk to each other through miniature
    microphones and headsets.
    !he result of this mass production approach to surgery according to &yodorov
    is not only far cheaper unit costs (he and his staff are paid for each patient
    treated, so they are all e"ceptionally wealthy as a result) but also a better success
    rate than that obtained in conventional surgery.
    Questions
    1 .ompare this approach to eye surgery with a more conventional approach.
    2 /hat do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of this approach
    to eye surgery0
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