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DOG’S BEST FRIEND

Calvin is an ordinary yellow Labrador — exceptionally friendly, amusing, intelligent, and curious — who lives by the sea in Santa Barbara. Calvin is also exceptionally lucky. He is alive today because his home is also the home of Dr. Doug Katsev, an internationally recognized eye surgeon.

Aside from his thriving private practice specializing in a cutting-edge new approach to cataract surgery, Katsev has devoted himself to helping others around the world. At last count, he had performed more than 25,000 eye operations, many of them as a volunteer with the nonprofit Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International in far-flung villages in Africa, Central and South America, and

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