Archive for January 2018

Many patients are very particular about making sure that the color of their eyes is correctly identified. “My eyes aren’t green; they’re gray-green with hints of hazel!” When we look at eyes really closely, we find that there are many different colors in the iris. The iris is the part of the eye that people…

I recently heard about an insurance company that decided that it was going to stop paying for anesthesia services for cataract surgery. Personally, I have experienced many situations in which a patient gets anxious or uncomfortable during surgery, which causes that person to move around. A moving patient during microsurgery is not a good situation.…

Recently an article was published that was actually able to show a statistically significant reduction in infections after cataract surgery. The reason that it is very hard to show any significant changes in infection rates is that the rates are so low that you have to have a ton of patients to be able to…

Almost every patient I see has a numbing drop placed in the eye. Numbing drops can make eyes feel “heavy” or otherwise strange. It can sometimes help with the examination, especially in a patient who comes in for evaluation of eye irritation. These people absolutely LOVE the numbing drops! “Can I take those home with…