@article{840a58aaa2004645add110a819f380fc,
title = "How a jolt and a bolt in a dentist's chair revolutionized cataract surgery",
author = "Goldstein, {Joseph L.}",
note = "Funding Information: After this epiphanous moment came sev eral years of intensive research on the eyes of cats and human cadavers until the phacoemulsification technique was first used on a patient in 1967. By 1969, Kelman had used his procedure to remove cataracts in 12 patients9. Between 1967 and 1973, 3,500 cataract removals by phacoemulsification had been performed in the United States, 500 of them by Kelman10. The vast majority of ophthalmologists viewed phacoemulsification as a radical procedure that totally challenged their conventional wisdom. In particular, they were shocked by Kelman{\textquoteright}s audacity in discharging his hospitalized patients on the same day as the surgery and permitting them to return to full activity on the first or second postoperative day7,10,11. Today, we take outpatient cataract surgery for granted, but 30 years ago Kelman{\textquoteright}s approach was heretical and was met with overt hostility by the established academic surgical community. His only research support from 1964 to 1970 was an annual grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation. Kelman never received research support from the National Institutes of Health, and all of his preclinical and clinical research was done while he was a full-time practicing ophthalmologist.",
year = "2004",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1038/nm1004-1032",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "10",
pages = "1032--1033",
journal = "Nature medicine",
issn = "1078-8956",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "10",
}