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What a great story. Imagine the impact on these people's lives and how many people this doctor has touched. We need a thousand more just like him!
This story made me cry :)
This is a Dr. who deserves a Nobel Prize!
Amazing how a complex western-style surgery can be simplified based on resources and need.
Proves the old saying "don't make it too complicated; the simplest answer tends to be the correct one."
If this new Obama law is passed, taking out cataracts for nothing in a trailer will not only be done in India but here in the USA as well. The only thing is they are going to have a bit of trouble trying to find a schmuck like this guy willing to do it. We are not all Albert Schweizters!
Oh boy, here comes the fringe. Do you guys just lurk and leap at every opportunity? This is an inspirational and positive story. But there you go, "if its good make it bad and blame it on Obama". Take a break sometimes already.
FYI this doctor is from Nepal not India.
@dr eye surgeon nyc
Shame on you for taking an inspirational story of selflessness and service to others and ruining it with a crass political comment. This doctor is a truly enlightened soul ---- PEOPLE LIKE YOU are what is wrong with this world and our country as well. What have you done for others today? How much time do you spend doing selfless service and charity work? What percentage of your income did you give away last year to charity?
Thats right.. so STFU
Doctors in the US = spend millions on the latest technology, write it off as a loss a year laters when something new comes along, and pass it along the cost to us, the insurance payers. Collect the check by taking away our homes, buy that new BMW, take a two month vacation in the Virgin Islands.
Doctors in third world countries = fight their way (literally) through war zone universities, come up with better ways with what ever limited resources they have, give back to those in need, join the Doctors Without Borders and travel around the world helping millions of people with their improvised and cheap method.
Hmmm...doesn't take a rocket scientist to see which doctor is more respective in my eyes.
But, I understand your anger. You're just angry because now you feel real competition that'll steal away your profits, right? Guess what? After I've read this article, I just gained knowledge that if I ever get cataracts, I'll just buy a plane ticket to Nepal to get it fixed! The fix may not be good enough like over here, but I'm sure the plane ticket to Nepal will be hundreds time cheaper that getting it totally fixed over here!
Yeah, I'll get what I pay for, but then again, that's how consumers work in the real world! If given a choice of "$10,000 for non invasive appendix surgery versus the ol' cut it out with a scalpel method for $20," most people will take the $20 one. Heck my grandpa got his appendix taken care of sixty years ago and yes, he's left with a scar in his stomach, but he still kicks ass against many younger guys in drinking games at his local bar. But nooo.... you guys don't see any way of making money off of that old cut out and leave without a scar method, so you advertise "better and latest high-tech way of treating appendicitis that leaves no scar." Guess what? I'll rather have that scar in my stomach, save $9980 to fix up my home rather than you guys taking away my home!!!
And tell me this Dr. Eye Surgeon: when was the last time you went around the world fixing cataracts for those truly in need?
too many Worldy $$$ Doctors, Not enough REAL Caring Doctor Sanduk Ruit's in Existence..Inspiration, does not get any better than this.....
so why dont all you guys go thru medical school take out 100k in loans and then start doing work for free-makes alot of sense-doesnt it?
I realize the cost to become a doctor is expensive, but why did you want to become a doctor?
but why did you want to become a doctor?
Its all about the Benjamins.
Maybe because med-school over here is just too expensive and too out of touch with the real world of what it means to cure people?
Let's look at doctors at other third world countries. They go to med-school in a warzone, walking to universities through landmines, frequent tribal warfare, but when they get through, they don't work for the money, they work for helping people in need. Granted their medical skills our resources may not be good enough like us because lack of funding, but it's still good enough to help people in dire need.
For example, their appendix surgery may not be advanced like us and may still rely on methods done fify years ago, but it's still good enough for a person to live a healthy life; just like how our grandfathers were able to live fully without any complication from that appendix surgery sixty years ago. There's no need for advanced ways to cure appendixes when something that worked fifty years ago is able to help that person live a full life with no complications.
But yet, our doctors and insurance companies don't see any way of making $$$ from that. They "advertise" a better and less invasive way of treating appendicitis. Yeah sure it maybe advanced, but down the line if a patient was given a choice, I'm sure most folk would say "hmm.... $10,000 for the latest less invasive appendicitis treatment, or $20 for the old cut it out method? Well, yeah my grandpa has that scar but he's still alive like a tank and still beats guys at the bar in drinking games...I'll take the one that'll save me $9980!"
That's what the doctors and insurance companies start have to thinking. What the consumers want ain't delegated by forcing expensive crap down our throats when something that works can be done for much cheaper. It's just like old Coke "do you WANT a new Coke = do you want better way of treating ____— BUT FOR AN INSANE AMOUNT OF PRICE TAG?" Most people will say no!!! If it works, don't fix it!!
Somethings are better left off cheap and affordable, especially those that can be cured with the simplest way, like Dr. Ruit has done. Yeah so I'll leave a scar in my stomach for getting my appendix fixed for $20. At least I'll end up saving $9980 which I can use to fix my house than having it taken away from me!!!
what a wonderful story.the irony is that before they couldn't see how bad off they were know they can, but it is still a wonderful story.
Now there's a guy who really deserves a Nobel prize!
Small wonder our medical community calls him a reckless cowboy! If he did the same thing and charged $100k, he'd be a hero to doctors over here.
Of course, this guy could never work here. He'd be immediately sued by thousands of greedy Americans looking to collect from his malpractice insurance.
Small wonder doctors make a lot of money. What other professional has to pay out 50k in malpractice insurance every year to deal with the fact that they aren't God.
I have read up on these Nepal Doctors and their medical science has been tested in US laboratories, and it measures far beyond the US medical science. Only these Dr's do it "naturally" with herbs and natural remedies from the earth. Who ever said that the medical society and all their Big Pharma medicines, knew it all?
American pharm do know it all!!! Oh wait. You meant about medicine? Sorry, I meant about turning a consistant long-term profit. Clearly the Nepanese are caveman compared to wall street.
Ruit has got to be the nicest dr. i've read about for a long time. he will go to his grave loved by many. over here it is all about the money.
God bless Dr. Ruit. I think this is what is meant when you are told to try your best to be as God created you to be. It is a wonderful ministry - teaching other doctors to go out into the world and heal more people. What an inspiring story!
The doctor should be honored, but not as the title of this article portrays him. There is one God of all, not just sight, and it is not this Doc. He may be doing God's work but does not deserve this title. The one that wrote this went over the top. May God bless the doc and all of these people.
Doctors 50 years ago maybe 70 years ago became doctors for much the same reason to help their fellow human beings. To give them the best health care medically possible be it herbs or manufactured pills. Our capatilist society has taken away the natural medicines and even tried to outlaw them to increase the profits for doctors and pharmacutical companies. The very roots of medical history are from the same precious nich of humanity Dr. Ruit comes from. May god bless this doctor and the hundreds he has trained who are also doing gods work. The gift of sight is a blessing, to see children play flowers bloom and rain nurish the seeds into life Ahmen.
This doctor is not a god but he is a very good human being.
Very Inspirational article. These type of articles inspires us to do better with our life and assets.
For those who have complaints about the title of the article.. He is greater than the god that you are believing. Your god took away the lights of their eyes and this Doc have restored them.
Now I will remember Nepal not only for Mt. Everest and Buddha but also for Dr. Ruit.
Mark...you are as blind as these people are or maybe more so, but that is a whole nother story...lol. May God of all not only me help you see the light again too.
May God bless and keep you.
Give him a Nobel Prize. Like right now. If anyone in the scientific community is reading this, please nominate him. I haven't seen heroism like this before in my entire life. Not once. I am honestly honored to even just know his name and I feel blessed just to know who he is. May his soul burn brightly in the afterlife and join the greatest members of human history.
Nobel Prize. Go on, hurry up.
It appears that the more humble you are the more people you can help. May God continue to bles Dr. Ruit as well as the other doctors he trains. What he is doing is a great service to man/womankind. The gift of sight. We tend to take it for granted.
It gives me a sliver of hope that there are some good people left in this world.....
Proof that "good enough" is sometimes good enough. This is not providing perfect sight, but it is making these people independent and functional. The more we can help people be functional in their own communities, the stronger the world becomes.
The title says he is "god of sight" to his patients - who generally believe in a pantheon of gods and goddesses. One more or less isn't going to change things for the monotheists in the group.
@ dr. eye surgeon nyc---REALLY???!! OMG- what a bizarre comment. The world desperately needs more enlightenment and less stupidity. I say "fantastic" about a physician who would develop such a method. And don't worry, dr. eye surgeon nyc, no one will expect you to help with anything...your world can center around only the finest things in life with paying, "insured" patients.
This proves the old saying "don't make things too complicated. The simplest answer tends to be the correct one, and in this case, the most cheapest and efficient one."
Remember how life was back in the good old days? Medical treatment was cheap because doctors did with what they had. Now, every doctor and hospital needs the latest technology to compete with the other guy to fix something more "efficiently," yet these new medical machines get replaced every year with something more "efficient." But replacing them every now and then costs $$$$$$, maybe in the millions, which is not enough time to depreciate so they write it off as a loss. And when they do, they pass along those costs back to us in forms of higher insurance rates.
But look at this guy. A doctor in a third world country has cured more cataracts than any other medical machine in the States and for a price that none of them can compete with - for free!
As more and more "simple and cheap answers" are thought out in these countries, you'll see more and more people over here ditching insurance companies. Heck, if I had cataracts, I'll pay for a plane ticket to Nepal to get it fixed because face it; the plane ticket to Nepal would probably be cheaper than getting my eyes fixed over here!!
Dr Ruit trained in India and after reading stories of missionaries like Dr Rambo who worked out of a missionary college of medicine in Vellore India, I am wondering if he trained there and picked up the idea of the eye camps where the missionary doctors did pretty much what he did around the area of Vellore. I am not trying to discredit him, but this pretty much happened in India by missionaries in the 1960's. Whatever Dr. Ruit's source of inspiration, I believe it is a medical answer to patients in these poorer countries. I am glad that he will be training Americans, as it would be a great help to civilians around the world.
My source for info in the above Post was Dr Rambo: Aposltle of Sight by Dorothy Clarke Wilson.
most fascinating news and deed yet. I doubt if there is ever more important thing like the eye and to be able to see again after even a day of blindness is a moment of unquantifiable joy. Thank You Doc! Nobel Prize for you. I mean He deserved it