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Soon after we opened our ASC in 1999, the hospital I operated at cut my OR time by two-thirds. I had two choices: Perform routine retinal cases at the hospital in the evenings or on weekends; or move my retina cases out of the hospital and into my ASC. After careful consideration, I chose the latter and haven't looked back since. 
