
Most scientific articles are written primarily not for the dissemination of medical knowledge, but rather for the advancement of the reputation of the authors.
Consequently, our ophthalmic literature is presently glutted with an imbalanced number of success stories.
Our failures find their way into print much more rarely, and even then, they typically take the form of “catastrophic events that were not my fault.”
Reports of surgical complications, born of pure poor decision-making, are almost nonexistent. They are embarrassing to describe, possibly legally implicating and lowly