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Visionary medicine: Charitable ‘Flying Eye Hospital’ touches down in Oakland

Ophthalmologist Omar Salamanca bent over his work, demonstrating a detail of eye surgery for colleagues as they stood inside a Boeing MD-10 airplane at Oakland International Airport. Salamanca is a staff eye doctor at the Flying Eye Hospital, a converted airplane that has been used to train about 10,000 doctors, administer 12.5 million eye exams […]

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