Archive for April 2019

I have previously asked the question, “Are stents for your heart or your eyes?” This was referring to a popular glaucoma microstent that is placed in the eye of glaucoma patients during their cataract surgery. That was using one type of stent that has been around for years. A stent that has been around for…

Recently I read an article by Hribar et al. in the journal Ophthalmology. It discussed clinic scheduling. One of the findings of the study was that double booking earlier in the day was a good strategy for clinic efficiency because it got the doctor going with seeing patients sooner. I have been pushing to have…

I have a patient who needs an iridodialysis repair after being hit in the eye. The natural response to this statement is, “what is an iridodialysis?” An iridodialysis is a tear of the iris, which is the colored part of the eye that we often call “brown” or “blue.” If the iris tear is located…

One of the great difficulties that we experience in ophthalmology practice is that of the patient who has been waiting a long time. This happened to me earlier this week when the office was a little short staffed, so there were too many patients scheduled in the same time slot. The patient and her family…