Doing your own work

I have found a small community of ophthalmologists who are all quite crazily meticulous with their calculations. When we do cataract surgery, we place lens implants in the eye to replace the natural lens of the eye that we remove. In order to place the correct lens implant for the correct patient, one has to calculate the correct lens implant to place. Many times, this work is already done by the machine that measures the patient’s eye in the office. Yet some of us, like me and those ophthalmologists who I mentioned, go back to double and triple check those calculations by entering them into online calculators. This allows us to use the most recently updated formulas, and we hope that that gives us the best surgical outcomes.