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The 87 ambulatory surgeries, performed by Dr. Stephen Kutner and Israeli ophthalmologist Claudette Keroub, proved to the government that immigrant patients with a language barrier could be operated on with local anesthesia and without hospital stays — at a savings of up to 75 percent. Until that time, immi- grants, particularly the poorly educated Ethiopians, presented too many com- munication and accultura- tion problems to consider same day surgery, said Dr. Kutner, who has returned to his downtown Atlanta prac- tice. He added that ambulatory surgery is new to the Kupat Cholim, the government- sponsored medical care system that services up to 90 percent of Israel's popula- tion. Dr. Kutner, who is presi- dent of the Atlanta Bureau of Jewish Education, last fall served for the second time in 1990 as a consultant for Kupat Cholim. Dr. Kutner said he was picked for the assignment not only for his expertise in same day eye surgery, but because of his association with Ethiopian Jewry. He was the first Jewish oph- thalmologist to go into Ethi- opia on a medical mission to treat Ethiopian Jews. Since the 1987 trip, Dr. Kutner remained active in Ethio- pian-Jewish affairs. "The Ethiopian Jews rep- resent a unique culture of proven biblical Judaism," said Dr. Kutner. "Their plight and their survival really touched me. I felt it urgent that I dedicate my work to them." During his first trip to Israel for Kupat Cholim in May, Dr. Kutner vol- unteered for three weeks, Ellen Bernstein writes for the Atlanta Jewish Times. assessing the eye care needs of about 500 of the many E- thiopians overwhelming ab- sorption centers in Northern Israel. He also saw about 100 Russian immigrants at the Lin Clinic in Haifa. In seven 12-hour days, Dr. Kutner saw immigrants, mostly over 40 years old, whose eye problems included trachoma, cataracts, glaucoma, infections, blind- ness from corneal scars and lid deformities. What Dr. Kutner found was that the Israelis were taking "good care" of the E- thiopians and Soviet olim. Among Ethiopian children, Israeli eye specialists had completely reversed eye problems caused by malnutrition in civil-war ravaged Ethiopia, Dr. Kutner said. But what he also saw was "that the Israelis are being overwhelmed by o/im. Dr. Kutner plans to form an American task force who can advise the Kupat Cholim on implementing cost-saving, same day surgery in Israel. Israeli doctors are working as hard as they can." However, due to com- munication problems and a dearth of social workers and translators, "the health care delivery system broke down," Dr. Kutner said. The ophthalmologist add- ed that Soviets, who lost their entitlement to health care when they applied for exit visas, came to Israel with a host of untreated and poorly treated medical prob- lems. The three- to six-month waiting lists for critical ocular care was so swollen with the rise in o/im that pa- tients with advanced diabetes were in danger of going blind waiting for surgery, Dr. Kutner said. He added that long waiting lists for specialized procedures is a problem common to most countries with socialized medical systems. In May, Dr. Kutner asked the Kupat Cholim to provide him in September with a free-standing facility and a small ophthalmic surgical team "to do intense surgery for the waiting list."