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Sunday, June 8, 1986
THE BAYTOWN SUN
Laser surgery can save eyesight
Once a space age marvel, the
laser Is fast becoming an every- Surgery Unit
day tool used for the removal of
Room housed in their One Day
After a brief nursing assess-
ment and preparation, the pa-
Arisco, laser safety officer, tient is seated in a chair and
cataract membranes, diabetic helped to lead the way for the positioned in front of the
retinopathy, early forms of development and coordination of microscope,
glaucoma, and certain tumors.
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Accurately, a beam of energy
Ten years ago a person with Ophthalmic User Surgery Pro- is painlessly emitted. After
diabetic retinopathy could not gram. brief observation period, the pa-
escape blindness.' The laser surgery is perform- tient is discharged from One
Now, hemorrhaging blood ed on a One Day Surgery basis. Day Surgery
vessels can be sealed by laser
treatment.
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PLUS SPECIAL GIFTS
FOR THE LOSERS OF THE MONTH!
Glaucoma patients tradi-
tionally have been treated with a
lifelong regimen of medication
a nd - eften -surgery- wtth
anesthesia and a long con-
valescence.
Now, in a matter of minutes a
laser can open tiny holes In the
iris, allowing the fluid to drain.
There is no anesthesia, no
hospitalization and the patient
can go home and resume normal
activity.
“AVhat once was a painful pro-
cedure with extended recovery
has been reduced to a painless
outpatient procedure by using
laser surgery,” ophthalmologist
Dr. Martin Arisco said. __
The Laser Surgery Program is
available in Baytown both at San
Jacinto Methodist Hospital and
at Gulf Coast Hospital.
San Jacinto Methodist
Hospital has purchased a Britt
152 Pulsed Argon Laser and has
established a Laser Surgery
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former fundamentalist,1 says who attend the twice-monthly Santa Claus, you can’t go back to
fellow congregation members meetings. Members do not pay a believing it again, ” Judy said,
would scold her for being “out of fee to join or any dues, but dona-
step with the Lord” when hef ar-
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Other fundamentalist pie and family.”
ing fundamentalism. theologians say they sympathize
They compare their feelings to with group members who have --—
the withdrawal^ symptoms qf an had bad experiences, but that
alcoholic or drug addict;
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Fundamentalists Anonymous
Organizers of the New York- organizers make a mistake
based group say fundamen- when they lump all forms of fun-
talism is an addiction because it damentalism into one category,
offers a clearcut picture of
“Unfortunately, I think many
spiritual values with no gray of the people who are making up
areas or uncertainties, creating the membership of Fundamen-
a step-by-step life plan that, talists Anonymous are throwing
although restrictive, offers out the baby with the bath
security.
Judy, who like other group vice president for academic af-
■ members asked that her last fairs at The Criswell College in
name not be used, said one Dallas,
reason she left her fundamen-
talist group was because she there would be — if there are —
could not accept the belief that abuses taking place that would
illnesses were caused by lack of lead to that kind of reaction,”
Land said.
Dr. John Hannah, professor
they would say. 'Tlh, we’re sorry and department chairman of
you’re out' of step with the
Lord,’” she said.
But leaving meant uncertain-
ty, Judy said.
“We wouldn’t have gotten
caught iir it if we hadn’t had the
need to belong, to fit, to have ab-
solutes,” she said.
1 “One of the biggest problems
with being an ex-fundamentalist
is that constant fear ‘what if I’m
wrong, what if I atn going to hell
in a handbasket?”’ said Anne
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“If my arthritis was painful,
historical theology at the Dallas
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that some people have had bad
experiences with extreme fun-
damentalist groups.
Both Land and Hannah dif-
fered between their brand of fun-
damentalism and what they
described as legalistic fun-
damentalism, a heavy-handed
dictatorial system forbidding
compromise or tolerance of
other beliefs.
“I see a core of people who
have been legalized and burned
out,” Hannah said.
Members of Fundamentalists
Anonymous say they are wary of
any kind of fundamentalism
because of their experiences.
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McKinney, who helped found the
Dallas chapter of Fundamen-
talists Anonymous.
The year-old group has 32
chapters across the country, the
only Texas chapter in Dallas,
wH,ere there are about 350 mail
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CAROL GARNER, eighth-grade student tram Gentry Junior School,
left, is awarded a Daughters of the American Revolution medal from
Xi Forsvall, flag chairman of the Goose Creek Chapter of the
Jason Christian, also a Gentry Junior eighth-grader, not pic-
tured, also won an award.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 187, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 8, 1986, newspaper, June 8, 1986; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1154465/m1/30/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.