There is a standard surgical package for routine eye surgery like cataract surgery. In a normal patient, if there is a surgical complication, and the patient does not develop useful vision in that eye, the patient is still not blind and so the compensation risk of a doctor is limited. However, it the same surgery is done on the only seeing eye of the patient (one-eyed), and things go wrong, the patient becomes blind, thus increasing many folds the compensation risk of a doctor.The doctor should therefore hike up his surgical package rates for a one-eyed patient many folds to cover his risk liability.
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