I was reading an article this week that was a summary of Acute Retinal Necrosis. ARN, as it is abbreviated, is definitely one of the scariest diagnoses that I have come across. It isn’t all that common, but it’s not exceedingly rare either. It is a devastating retinal disease that can progress in a matter…

For a long time, I scoffed at other physicians comments regarding their preference for branded drops. I always felt that the generic drops contained the same compounds and therefore would not have any different effect than branded drops. I also did not give much credence to patients who claimed that they preferred one brand of…