Page 8 University Daily Kansan, September 24, 1981
Ophthalmologists aren't eyeing budget cuts
By JoLYNNE WALZ Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
There are some KU researchers who aren't worried about President Reagan's budget cuts.
They are the physicians in the University of Kansas Medical Center's ophthalmology department.
"There's nothing in this department that's been paid for by federal or state money," department chairman Albert Lemione said last week.
One of the department's major private donors is the Lion's Clubs of Kansas, he said.
The department relies on private funds, he said, because he has not, during his 15 years as chairman, liked to rely on the government's money.
THE CLUBS have committed themselves to helping the blind, he said, and the Kansas clubs devote most of their fund-raising efforts to the Medina dermatology department, baging that research there will help prevent blindness.
Ophthalmologists are physicians and surgeons who treat eye diseases.
One research project being funded by private donations at the Med Center
may help explain why intense light damage causes retina and causes lesions. Lermae pain is a symptom of
Lorne Phillips, Lion's northeastern Kansas governor, said that the clubs committed themselves to helping the blind during a convention in the 1920s.
"Helen Keller got up at the convention, and in her great way of speaking, she got across to the Lion's Clubs the idea that we ought to have a project—a program for the blind," Phillips said.
"Nobody was thinking much in those years about blindness, and the Lion's Club decided that it would make that their major project."
The Lion's Clubs of Kansas have donated hundreds of thousands of dental instruments to the Med Center ophthalmology department over the years.
They are financing a $40,000 renovation of the department, which is scheduled to be completed early next year. Lemoine said.
He said that other money donated by the Lion's Clubs has been used to purchase expensive equipment, such as a special microscope for delicate eye surgery, and the department's first laser.
Because of the support they have given the department, the club's logo hangs behind the admissions desk of the ophthalmology clinic.
The ophthalmology department, which treats about 15,000 patients a year, also accepts gifts from private individuals.
A BRONZE PLAQUE that hangs outside the retinal study center in the department bears nameplates of 10 patients given $5,000 or more to the department.
Gifts from patients used to be more substantial before Medical, and the standard fees that came with it, went into effect in the 1960s, Lemaine said.
"Up until the mid-'60s, and even the people were charged according to this law."
For instance, physicians would charge wealthy patients $5,000 for an operation that they would charge a poor patient only $200 for.
Before the standard Medicaid fees became common, Lemoine said, he used to charge wealthy patients the same rate he charged poor patients.
He but always asked the wealthy to make a substantial gift to the opthalmologist, the ophthalmic surgeon.
physicians got their full fees and the wealthy patients got tax breaks.
Another source of income, Lemoine said, is the physicians themselves...
"We've given over a million dollars of our money," he said.
AT THE MED CENTER, every physician has a salary limit that cannot be exceeded. Any excess profits they receive from patient fees are handed over to the University Department Association, which gives back to the departments it came from.
This money and private gifts are becoming more important now that the federal government is cutting back on science funds.
Billy Hudson, dean of research at the Med Center, said federal funding cutbacks were affecting Med Center researche.
Although the federal government has not cut back any research money the Med Center is receiving already, additional funding was impossible to get.
To combat the funding freeze, Hudson said, more departments are actively seeking private funds, and research funding is being concentrated on major research.
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