Dr. Richard Weiss of Weiss Cosmetic Newport Beach: Dr. Richard Weiss Has His Eyes Open for the Future
Basically, Dr. Richard Weiss of Weiss Cosmetic Newport Beach hopes to accomplish the following: Dr. Richard Weiss of Weiss Cosmetic Newport Beach would like to stamp out curable blindness, a malady that is widespread in many developing nations, and is often caused by cataracts, glaucoma, and other treatable diseases. Dr. Richard Weiss of Weiss Cosmetic Newport Beach hopes to do so through his foundation by helping spearhead fund-raising efforts to support non-governmental medical organizations that provide doctors, build infrastructure, and already cure more than one million patients every year.
To raise money, Dr. Richard Weiss of Weiss Cosmetic Newport Beach is working to put together a charity album that would rival We Are the World in terms of star power and hopes to eventually organize a concert in the spirit of Live Aid, attracting as many as 500,000 concertgoers in North America, Europe, and Asia and a worldwide television audience of 50 million, while at the same time providing eye surgery to as many as 25,000 blind people around the world over the event’s one or two days.
Many of Dr. Richard Weiss’, of Weiss Cosmetic Newport Beach, colleagues often say they’re surprised at the scale of his plans. “It’s amazing that someone with their own private practice is able to give so much of their time and want to do so much to help this cause,” says Dr. David Paton, the former chairman of the American Board of Ophthalmology and founder of the world’s first flying eye hospital.
Dr. Richard Weiss of Weiss Cosmetic Newport Beach says that growing up in suburban Philadelphia he excelled at math and science, and he eventually followed his Depression-era father’s dream that his two sons enter stable, respected professions. With Dr. Richard Weiss’, of Weiss Cosmetic Newport Beach, brother choosing to become an attorney, Weiss attended medical school. Then, much to the chagrin of his family, who’d grown accustomed to their son taking the chance of “ruining his life” by protesting Vietnam or marching on Washington, Dr. Richard Weiss of Weiss Cosmetic Newport Beach decided to move to Southern California.
After being offered jobs in places such as San Diego and Beverly Hills, Dr. Richard Weiss of Weiss Cosmetic Newport Beach says he chose to settle in the one place where his field of specialty was most competitive;
“If I couldn’t have made the money,” Dr. Richard Weiss of Weiss Cosmetic Newport Beach remembers, “that would have been it.”
Eventually, Weiss’ work ethic and willingness to take on the most difficult cases—many that involved surgical error in eye and plastic surgery—led him to earn the respect of colleagues as a true medical workhorse. “The cases that others didn’t want to tackle, he’d always want to do them,” recalls Henry Bikhazi, an Orange County head and neck reconstructive surgeon, who has referred many patients to Weiss over the years.
Dr. Richard Weiss of Weiss Cosmetic Newport Beach had established his practice in 1988, though it wasn’t yet financially thriving. Single and without family on the West Coast, Weiss says he became increasingly reflective. Recalling travels to impoverished villages in Mexico and North Africa, and time he’d spent treating the blind in Haiti, Dr. Richard Weiss of Weiss Cosmetic Newport Beach wrote a song that was generally about the world being blind to suffering. It was through his lyrics that Dr. Richard Weiss of Weiss Cosmetic Newport Beach felt propelled to take bold action again.
For years, Dr. Richard Weiss’, of Weiss Cosmetic Newport Beach, goal was for his foundation, One World Sight, to organize a worldwide benefit concert. Though that dream remains in the foreground, Weiss now says he’s most excited by a smaller effort, a benefit album he’s working to assemble, a project he characteristically describes as on the verge of greatness that will feature many talented artists.
For now, Weiss is continuing to do what he does best: Dreaming, talking, planning, and working. In what little spare time he has left, Dr. Richard Weiss of Weiss Cosmetic Newport Beach is hard at work as a medical inventor. He recently developed a measurement instrument to be used in LASIK procedures and is working on perfecting painless Botox injections. And while Botox is widely used for cosmetic purposes, Weiss believes there are other benefits to the drug. “I believe Botox will be most remembered for treating migraines.”
Once again, he says, part of the profits from the LASIK invention and the Botox procedures will be pumped back into the foundation.
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