So, what makes a premium surgeon think about a nursery rhyme in the first place? Weasel means coat, and it was traditional for even poor people to own a suit, which they wore as their “Sunday best.” When times were hard, they would pawn their suit, or coat, on a Monday and claim it back before Sunday, hence the term “pop goes the weasel.”
As a premium surgeon, we do not get the opportunity to claim back anything once we “pop” the posterior capsule, so any means to avoid posterior capsule rupture should be our goal from start to finish in any cataract case,
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