Protected Eyes America Proclaims New Board Member Vicki Rutledge

(PRESS RELEASE) WASHINGTON — Protected Eyes America (SEA), a non-profit group devoted to selling the supply of the very best high quality medical and surgical eye care to the American public introduced the addition of a brand new member to its Board of Administrators – Vicki Rutledge. Ms. Rutledge a proud member of the Choctaw Nation resides in Hugo, Oklahoma. She first realized of Protected Eyes America from her ophthalmologist, a glaucoma eye specialist on the famend Dean McGee Eye Institute, Oklahoma Metropolis.

Vicki Rutledge

Sadly, Ms. Rutledge was blinded in her proper eye from a laser eye surgical process carried out by an Oklahoma optometrist. Oklahoma is among the few states within the nation that enables optometrists to preform laser eye surgical procedure with out finishing the years of extra medical schooling and surgical coaching presently required of ophthalmologists – medical eye surgeons.

Ms. Rutledge stated: “I’m trying ahead to working with Protected Eyes America. My reference to SEA represents a chance for me to discover a “silver lining” after my eyesight was negligently taken from me. The chance to unfold consciousness and schooling on imaginative and prescient points to assist others is so vital to me.”

For instance, Ms. Rutledge not too long ago by way of Protected Eyes America turned conscious of a harmful New Hampshire eye surgical procedure invoice (SB 440). This invoice, if enacted, would have allowed optometrists to carry out laser eye surgical procedure within the Granite State. Upon studying of this harmful eye surgical procedure invoice, Ms. Rutledge testified earlier than the New Hampshire state legislature relating to the hazards to eye sufferers like herself related to SB 440. Thanks partly to Ms. Rutledge’s testimony, the invoice didn’t move preserving New Hampshire eye surgical procedure requirements.