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		<title>Femtosecond Lasers Come to Cataract Surgery &#124; Drs. Fine, Hoffman, Packer, &amp; Sims, LLC</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Packer, MD, FACS Three companies in the United States have entered the nascent femtosecond (FS) phaco market: LenSx Lasers Inc. (Aliso Viejo, CA), LensAR Inc. (Winter Park, FL), and Optimedica Corp. (Santa Ana, CA). Bragging rights to the first peer-reviewed publication and US procedure have gone to LenSx; however, the “femto feuds” haven’t even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Intraocular Lens Technology for the Next Decade</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Packer, MD, FACS Emmetropia and full accommodation remain the goal of refractive cataract and lens surgery. Already we’ve witnessed dramatic advances in the field, from a time only 10 years ago when only a single zonal refractive multifocal IOL was available in the United States to today’s array of FDA-approved refractive and diffractive multifocal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Same Day Sequential Surgery &#8212; the Time Has Come</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Mark Packer MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Packer, MD Patients sometimes ask, “Can you do both eyes on the same day?” It is usually younger patients who ask this question; especially those who present for refractive lens surgery. Refractive Lens Exchange (RLE) means the replacement of the aging crystalline lens with a manufactured intraocular lens implant – essentially the same procedure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Patient Customer &#124; Drs. Fine, Hoffman, Packer, &amp; Sims, LLC</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Mark Packer MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Packer There was a cartoon in The New Yorker magazine many years ago now in which one socially erudite martini-wielding fashion plate said to another, “I don’t have time for instant gratification.” In the world of Refractive Surgery, the concept of the “Wow Factor” reflects the attitude lampooned in this satire. LASIK, in fact, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abbott Labs Makes Accommodation for Visiogen&#8217;s New Lens</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Mark Packer MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In San Francisco at the recent American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting, the news on everyone’s lips was the acquisition of Visiogen, Inc., by Abbott Labs. Visiogen is a small, privately funded company with one product, the accommodative intraocular lens christened “Synchrony.” The lens is not yet approved for sale in the United States; a response [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Outside of the Comfort Zone &#124; Drs. Fine, Hoffman, Packer, &amp; Sims, LLC</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Mark Packer MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Performing surgery outside of one’s familiar surroundings—especially outside of one’s own country—creates challenges of personality and purpose. I have had the opportunity several times now, in various locales, to perform live surgery at international congresses and operate using new technology not yet available in the United States. I’ve successfully completed cataract surgery in India, Malaysia, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opening Your Mind to New Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Packer &#38; Howard Fine Several years ago, at a meeting of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons, we volunteered to help teach a wet lab on complications of phaco.  The lab was held down a dingy corridor in some forsaken corner of the “Congress Centrum.”  The lead instructor, Brian Little, briefly described a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Current Phaco Parameters &#124; Drs. Fine, Hoffman, Packer, &amp; Sims, LLC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent advances in ultrasound and fluidics permit the safest and most effective cataract extraction procedures. My current setting for the state-of-the-art machines from each of the major manunfacturers are attached. Abbott Medical Optics &#8220;Signature&#8221; &#8212; Click here to view pdf Alcon &#8220;Infiniti&#8221; &#8212; Click here to view pdf Bausch &#38; Lomb &#8220;Stellaris&#8221; &#8212; Click here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mac Plug-in for Viewing Videos</title>
		<link>http://www.finemd.com/theexpertview/?p=28</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Mark Packer MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re unable to view the videos on your Mac, please visit Windows Media® Components for QuickTime, by Flip4Mac™. You&#8217;ll be able to play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) directly in QuickTime Player and view Windows Media content on the Internet using a Web browser.]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times Takes Note of Refractive Lens Exchange</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Mark Packer MD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times recently published a column on presbyopia correction highlighting Refractive Lens Exchange. However, the article opens with a description of an early stage Russian laser technology from an Ohio-based company called Oculatek (see Skin Deep: To Squint Or See The Light, by Camille Sweeney, January 1, 2009). I had never heard of [...]]]></description>
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