Archive for September 2025

I was recently speaking to a family member who was recounting her experience of seeing eye doctors. She had a visit in California, where she lives, and was told that she had a normal eye exam. She specifically asked about cataracts and was told she did not have any. At that time, everything seemed quite…

The term “monocular” refers to the condition in which someone has a large asymmetry between the eyes in terms of vision. Essentially, it means that one eye sees much better than the other, and the worse seeing eye actually has quite poor functional vision. In these scenarios, we ophthalmologists strongly recommend the use of glasses…

Today, I saw a patient on call. It was actually a great experience! Typically, we consider it to be a bit of an intrusion on our personal time to have to come into the hospital and see a patient. However, most of the time, it actually turns out to be wonderful–when patients know that we…

When we talk about transplants in the eye world, this usually means a transplant of the very front part of the eye, which is the cornea. Some patients think that the entire eye can be replaced, but that is not true. Transplanted corneas are like any other transplanted organ of the body; they are subject…