An idealistic ophthalmologist, he came up with an ingenious way to treat blindness in far-flung places: by outfitting an airplane with an operating room. By Michael S. Rosenwald David Paton, an ...
David Paton, the visionary ophthalmologist who converted a commercial airplane into a flying hospital, has died at 94. Dr. Paton’s Project Orbis program has performed hundreds of thousands of eye ...