The learning curve: Is it really worth it?

Premium surgeons face many challenges on a daily basis, from managing patient expectations, managing the ocular surface and treating corneal astigmatism to calculating proper IOL powers, but the most daunting challenge is learning about and/or implementing a new surgical maneuver or device. Wikipedia describes the familiar expression “a steep learning curve” as intended to mean that the activity is difficult to learn, although a learning curve with a steep start actually represents rapid progress. Either way the steep learning curve is interpreted, the premium surgeon has to encounter it, whether (Read more...)

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