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The Evolution of Retinal SurgeryA Personal Story
Harvey Lincoff, MD
Arch Ophthalmol. 2009;127(7):923-928.
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INTRODUCTION
I would like to thank The Retinal Research Foundation, The Schepens International Society, and Alice McPherson for establishing this lecture to honor Charles Schepens and for inviting me to be the first lecturer.
I met Charles Schepens (Figure 1) in 1955 when I was sent to the Howe Laboratory in Boston for a Heed fellowship with David Cogan. Dr Schepens had emigrated to the United States and to the Howe Laboratory from London 8 years before. Just before I left for Boston, Edward Norton, a friend at the New York Hospital, advised me to look in on Dr Schepens while in Boston. Charles Schepens' reputation for treating and curing retinal detachments had reached New York, and there was disbelief. A leading retinal surgeon in New York—there were 2—referred to him as Boston Charlie, a takeoff on Boston Blackie, a fictional gangster in the movies. Retinal . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Author Affiliations: The New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York.
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