10-minute surgery, lifelong impact: Jacksonville doctor urges surgeons to help cure preventable blindness for free

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville ophthalmologist is renewing his push to cure one of the world’s most common, and most preventable, causes of blindness, using a model he says could work in communities nationwide.

Cataracts account for roughly half of all blindness globally, according to health experts, and can often be cured with a single surgery that takes about 10 minutes.

For Jeffrey Yaple, the impact was immediate…

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