operated on him, convinced Morgan to join his practice in Torrington. He spent the next several years working as a general practitioner in Torrington. Ophthalmologist in Torrington, Wyoming, 1960-81 After suffering chest pains in October 1956, his physicians in Denver convinced Morgan to give up the demanding schedule of a general practitioner. In January 1957, Morgan returned to the University of Minnesota Medical School for three years of training as a specialist in ophthalmology. He returned to Torrington on January 11, 1960, and opened his practice, also working as the Chief Consultant in Ophthalmology for the Veterans Administration Hospital in Hot Springs, South Dakota. Although Torrington was a small community, Morgan was able to draw in patients from the surrounding area, eventually having 7,500 active files. Service in Vietnam (1967-70) and the invention of the Morgan Lens By 1966, Morgan had become aware of the pressing need for physicians to serve in Vietnam in the wake of the Vietnam War and therefore signed up for the Volunteer Physicians for Vietnam program organized by the American Medical Association. He spent two months in Vietnam in spring 1967; a second two-month tour in 1968; a third two-month tour in 1969; and a fourth one-month tour in 1970. During his time there, he and other ophthalmologists provided treatment for injured Vietnamese civilians. During Morgan's third Vietnam War tour as a volunteer physician, he concluded that many serious eye problems developed in individuals because fairly simple infections had not been treated adequately. Morgan noted that to protect the eye from being severely infected, it was necessary to have a means for steadily delivering sterile fluid or medication to the eye. Morgan noted that, especially in a war zone or an emergency room, medical personnel rarely had the time to continue administering eye drops to a patient continuously for a long enough period of time to thoroughly cleanse an irritated or infected eye. As such, in February 1969, in Vinh Long, Morgan molded a simple device for cleaning the eye. Morgan was familiar with contact lenses (wearing them himself and often prescribing them to his patients), and his first Morgan Lens was larger than a modern contact lens, resembling the early contact lenses of the 1940s. Morgan initially called the device the Therapeutic Lens Corneal, later renaming it the Morgan Medi-Flow Lens (today it is normally called simply the Morgan Lens). Later versions of the