Archive for November 2025

The use of robots in surgery has been known for decades. However, all of these robots seemed to me to be appropriate for macroscopic surgery–primarily abdominal surgery. In ophthalmology, we literally do our surgeries while looking through a microscope, so I didn’t think that there would be a robot to use for these surgeries. But…

This weekend, I was at a kids birthday party that my daughter was attending. I ended up in a conversation with other parents about someone who has “perfect eyesight” at age 39. I said, “prepare for whining coming soon. =)” People who have never had to wear glasses and have basically taken great eyesight for…

Usually, this is not a forum for me to pine for certain things or communicate my personal feelings about ideas that are not medical issues, but I am making an exception. There is a movie called “Caterpillar,” which I believe is being released (or perhaps re-released) in theaters this month. It relates to a cosmetic…

When performing cataract surgery, one of the steps that we commonly execute is called hydrodissection. The cataract is inside a capsule, and the cataract does not freely move within the capsule when we first encounter it during surgery. However, we can inject a water-based solution into the potential space between the cataract and capsule. By…