Thoughtful approach needed for patients with cataract and retinal disease

Cataract and retinal disease both increase in prevalence with age, and some type of retina diagnosis is present in nearly 50% of patients presenting for cataract surgery.
I recently attended both the Kiawah Eye and American-European Congress of Ophthalmic Surgery meetings. At both, Steve Charles, MD, shared a number of his learnings and pearls accumulated over 40 years of practice. Steve and I are good friends, as our careers have spanned the same decades of practice. I have added my own personal learnings and pearls to his and will share them in this commentary. Some will not agree with all