Archive for April 2026

Every so often, I get a patient who comes in with a cyst over the white part of their eyeball or of their eyelid. Often, I offer to drain the cyst as a simple procedure. However, there is a warning! A cyst is composed of a peripheral lining that secretes material into the center of…

This is a speculative post. Typically, I shy away from speculative posts, but today I am not going to. In the coming years, there will be more and more that computers are capable of doing. In something that seems to be a bit of an unexpected twist, the jobs that computers are replacing are more…

These days, I do most cataract surgery with anesthetic eye drops and some anesthetic injected into the eyeball during surgery. Previously, it was common to put anesthetic behind the eyeball with an injection, which is a technique I now use more rarely, especially for long surgeries. Sometimes, patients have very deep set eyes that are…