live TV with hundreds of your
peers scrutinizing your every
move. Fortunately, she had
some cool new technology to
calm her down.
To showcase the latest break-
throughs in laser cataract sur-
gery and lens implantation, Dr.
McCabe's surgery was transmit-
ted live via satellite to a ball-
room at the Hilton San Diego
Bayfront, where more than
1,000 cataract surgeons from
around the world attending the
2015 American Society of
Cataract & Refractive Surgeons
(ASCRS) meeting had gathered.
"Something I tried not to think
about," says Dr. McCabe.
Nearly 1,500 miles away at the
Texas Eye & Laser Center in
Hurst, Texas, Dr. McCabe sat
before the patient and the TV
cameras for her first-ever satel-
lite surgical broadcast. And
then the patient flinched under
the femto.
"It was exhilarating and excit-
ing," says Dr. McCabe, a part-
ner and the medical director at
the Eye Associates' Surgery
Center in Bradenton, Fla. The
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