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Surgeons Restore Sight and Forge Connections in Panama

From the left, U.S. Air Force Maj. (Dr.) Tim Soeken, and U.S. Air Force Maj. (Dr.) Zack Heath, ophthalmologists assigned to Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, perform a pterygium excision on a patient at Regional Hospital Dr. Luis "Chicho" Fabrega in Santiago de Veraguas, Panama, July 18, 2023. Pterygium (also known as surfer's eye) is an ocular surface disease characterized mainly by a wing-shaped growth of limbal and conjunctival tissue over the adjacent cornea. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kelsey Martinez)

PHOTO BY: Staff Sgt. Kelsey Martinez
VIRIN: 230718-F-OG981-2133.JPG
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NIKON Z 6

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NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S

APERTURE

32/10

SHUTTERSPEED

1/80

ISO

500

IMAGE IS PUBLIC DOMAIN

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