Archive for June 2020

One of the costs of doing business is that sometimes patients with scheduled appointments will not appear. There is a name on the schedule, but no patient arrives. This can be due to different factors, but sometimes patients know they have appointments and just decide not to come. As I mentioned, we think of this…

I’m sure that during this trying time in our country and the world, everyone is used to things being off schedule due to modifications that have been required for public health reasons. One of the modifications that we have made at my office is rearranging my schedule to try to minimize the number of people…

At least a few times per year, I see a patient who has a “growth” on the side of the eyeball, near the outer corner where they eyelids meet. It is usually kind of yellowish/pinkish in color, and it might move a little bit. Often, when I see this growth, I find that it is…

One of the tests that I often obtain in my clinic is topography. This is not about how hilly the area surrounding the building is, as it seems on first blush; it is a map of the front surface of the eyeball. Topography of the front of the eyeball measures how steep the curvature is…