Ophthalmic care can extend past eye to whole patient

Leonardo da Vinci said it well: “The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding may most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature.”
As discussed in the accompanying cover story, the symptoms and signs of many systemic diseases are clearly manifested in the eye. When I attended medical school, after our second year we had to choose a surgery track, medicine track or pediatrics track. I chose a surgical track and therefore primarily rotated through all the surgical specialties. (Read more...)

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