Archive for May 2024

Trapezoids and Squares

In the January 2024 edition of the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, Biyue Tu and colleagues published a study about different incision shapes in cataract surgery. When we take cataracts out, there is usually one “primary incision” that we do the cataract surgery through. There is often another “side-port incision” that is smaller than…

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Nothing Conclusive

In the January 2024 edition of JAMA Ophthalmology, Dr. Paul McCann and colleagues wrote a review article about dry eye treatment. They stated, “among reliable systemic reviews, no conclusive evidence was identified for any dry eye intervention.” What?! We can’t prove that we can do anything about dry eye? So we might as well do…

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