The Best Treatment for Floaters
Discussion about the various treatments for floaters
Discussion about the various treatments for floaters
If you develop any symptoms, such as a sudden onset of floaters or flashing lights, call your eye care professional immediately.
This newsletter does not constitute medical advice. Make sure to contact your healthcare provider if you experience any of these conditions.
We are about a year into this pandemic and one thing is perfectly clear. The main feature of this virus is confusion! Should we wear a mask? Should we open schools? Why are bars open but churches closed? On and on and on. Unfortunately, there has been a tremendous disconnect between how doctors think about the virus and putting a public policy in place. Most of the time, the two do not sync up very well. In this article, I am going to try and explain how doctors think about viruses and let you conclude what is and isn’t reasonable.
Here is a YouTube short video about instilling eye drops
This month’s newsletter is a reprint of an earlier newsletter. Several times a week, patients call me, telling me they ran out of their eyedrops. When they try to refill them, the pharmacists say it is too early for a refill. Why are they running out so soon? Hopefully, this article will help answer that question.
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Once upon a time, back in 1987, I hung out my shingle and opened my very own private ophthalmology practice. I had just finished my residency at the Indiana University Medical Center, armed with all the knowledge to begin practicing medicine. My eight years of medical school, internship, and residency prepared me very…