How do you become an eye surgeon or ophthalmologist?
I quite frequently get asked by my patients … so how do you become an ophthalmologist or eye surgeon? I find it a bit bemusing that many people still don’t understand that an ophthalmologist is a medical specialist in the same way a cardiologist or neurosurgeon or orthopaedic surgeon is. I think it may partly stem from a misunderstanding that optometrists and ophthalmologists do the same university course- they don’t. Optometrists study optometry and ophthalmologists study me
You and the world might look unexpectedly different after cataract surgery..
The main purpose of cataract surgery is to make people who can't see, see again. However, while for most people the improvement in vision is all they are focused on, some of my patients will notice other differences in how they look and see. Common comments include " Wow I didn't know I or my partner had so many wrinkles" and "The house is seriously dustier than I thought!". Colors will seem different too and usually more bluish in tint as the new lens implant does not have t
