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Discussion about the various treatments for floaters
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Times have changed. When I started my first practice in 1987, I quickly explained how the eye worked by using the analogy of a camera. The front surface of the lens acted the same as the cornea. The diaphragm functioned similarly to the iris and pupil. The retina acted like the camera’s film. …
You’re sitting there, minding your own business, when all of a sudden, a lightning flash appears out of the corner of your eye. Or maybe a bunch of gnats or spiderwebs appear in the periphery of your vision. You try to swat them away but nothing is there. You’ve most likely just had a posterior vitreous detachment.
You sit there feeling devastated as you’re given the diagnosis. You barely have time to let that sink in before your doctor starts recommending a complex procedure and going over the possible complications. You hardly hear what is being said as your mind races from the news you just received. Life can get surreal…
This has to be one of the most common questions I get asked when seeing patients for a variety of eye conditions that decrease vision. The first thing to do is understand exactly what glasses do and what are their limitations. First, we need to stop thinking of glasses as being too strong or too…
May is a special month for me. My birthday and wedding anniversary are both in May. May is also the month I graduated from medical school. That was 38 years ago, and a lot has changed. New advances in technology, treatments, surgical techniques, and much greater knowledge of diseases have dominated the headlines.
Before the COVID pandemic, I was returning from a conference in Orlando. A few minutes after the pilot turned off the seat belt sign, my iPod battery died. I grabbed one of those inflight magazines and came across a page titled “Greatest Doctors in America.” I flipped through a few pages until I…
