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Dr. Barrie Soloway, Surgical Director of Vista Alliance Eye Care Associates and Director of the Autonomous LADARVision Center of Excellence at the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary's Vision Correction Center, appeared in the:

 September 27, 1999 issue of Fortune Magazine

"Should You Get Your Eyes Lasered?"

The article, beginning on page 195, follows Dr. Soloway and his patients during and after their vision correction procedures.  Writer Mary Murray discusses the various laser and non-laser options for those with nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism and presbyopia (poor reading vision).

"Saturday mornings in Dr. Barrie Soloway's ophthalmology clinic have the feel of an old-time revival meeting. Maybe not when you first walk into the bright, white, marble-floored waiting room. There, patients who have had laser eye surgery the day before, sit quietly in rows of chairs against the walls, with little clear-plastic shields awkwardly taped over their eyes. But follow them into the exam rooms where Soloway removes the shields, and you hear exclamations straight from a faith healer's tent: 'It's a miracle!' Or, 'You've changed my life!' Or, just plain, 'I can see!'....'"Bad vision no longer has to be a disability,"' says Dr. Soloway.  '"It can be fixed permanently."'

Murray also wrote about the new laser system with which Dr. Soloway is performing at the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, called LADARVision by Autonomous, a system which tracks the eye 4,000 times per second.  This tracking system monitors the eye's tendency to move during surgery, which can affects results following surgery, and uses mirrors to freeze the image of the eye for the laser. The machine uses radar to check the position of the eye and ablates the cornea in a pattern of small overlapping dots.

"This summer, New York's Dr. Soloway became the first in the Northeast to get one of Frey's (Autonomous LADARVision system) lasers.  He says many patients have been waiting for it because they worry about holding their eyes steady during surgery. '"I tell them, with this laser, as long as you're lying on the table, it will find you,"' says Soloway.

If you would like to read the complete version of this article, or if you would like to read other articles or see broadcast segments in which Dr.  Soloway has appeared, please call toll-free 1-888-NYLASIK.

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