Why do people have laser eye surgery?
"What made you think about having laser eye surgery?" That's a question I have now asked several thousand times. And it's fascinating to...
Nothing hides forever
For most of us, the shape of our eyes stops changing some time in our 20s much like our body stops growing. That then begs the obvious...
Surface laser/PRK: Old dog, new tricks?
PRK or surface laser was the original form of laser eye surgery in the early 1990s. It is still one of the 3 common forms of corrective...
A/Prof. Colin Chan speaks in Bangkok
A/Prof. Colin Chan recently attended the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) meeting in Bangkok as part of the invited faculty....
A/Prof. Colin Chan teaching in Vietnam
A/Prof. Colin Chan recently traveled to Ho Chi Minh city in Vietnam as an organiser and participant in the inaugural APAO Satellite...
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...
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...
Are you an "Eye drop connoisseur"?
One of patients with dry eye recently made me laugh out loud when she gave herself the title of "Eye drop connoisseur". Her title was...