When confronted with complex cataract cases, the surgeon must have high confidence in his or her phaco machine and must know how to use it well to be successful. In such cases, precise vacuum/aspiration control can aid the surgeon. I use the Stell…
Cataract surgeons regularly encounter patients
with ocular comorbidities and high-risk features
for intraoperative and postoperative complications.
In my practice, 60% of binocularly sighted
patients have a condition or an anatomic characteri…
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Eye care professionals often think of Sjögren syndrome
solely as a possible cause of their patient’s
dry eye disease (DED). They may fail to realize
the implications of what a diagnosis of Sjögren
means for a patient. In primary Sjögren s…
We cataract surgeons tend to think of
ourselves as either Venturi or peristaltic
surgeons, advocating our preferred fluidics
style much as a driver might argue the
benefits of a manual versus automatic transmission on
a car. Although both typ…
In 2014, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will not have
much effect on ophthalmic surgeons, at least not as
much as the Obama administration had hoped. Why?
There have been massive problems with the implementation
of the most complex piece of US…