Health Care Visionary

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Shortly after launching his private practice in 1983, Price got into cryolathing, a precursor to LASIK surgery that required shaving off and freezing some eye tissue, reshaping it using a lathe-like cutting tool, then reinserting it into a patient's eye.

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Health Care Visionary

Almost imperceptibly, Dr. Francis Price Jr.'s fingers, gloved in brown latex, move a metal blade over the eyeball of an elderly woman.

After making small incisions, Price, peering through a special microscope, slips what looks like a contact lens under the eye's membrane. It's a donated cornea, meant to replace the ...

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