Devgan Eye Blog
Dr. Uday Devgan, MD, focuses his blog on current techniques, research, trials, issues, and case studies with an emphasis on surgical and clinical pearls for maximizing patient results.Doctor, may I audio record our consultation?
This was the question asked to me today by a patient. At first, I paused because I have never had this request after tens of thousands of patient visits. I thought about it for a moment and then said, Sure, no problem. The patient was seeing me for a complicated...
Learning from colleagues in other countries
Eye clinic charts have such specialized notations that an ophthalmologist can effectively decipher the entire visit no matter the language. You could receive an ophthalmology note from another country and figure out exactly what is going on. Across the globe,...
Follow-up with a patient
About 6 weeks ago, I wrote about a young man who suffered iris damage and developed an exotropia after a penetrating injury from a car accident. I performed a pupilloplasty and strabismus surgery to address both of these issues concurrently. He came back today for his...
Tonga Charity Trip
START BUILDING YOUR FUTURE The Kingdom of Tonga is a tiny cluster of islands in the Pacific, near Fiji and Samoa, and the first country across the international date line. It is also a country where blindness, principally from cataracts, is so common that the word for...
Vietnam Charity Trip
START BUILDING YOUR FUTURE The Kingdom of Tonga is a tiny cluster of islands in the Pacific, near Fiji and Samoa, and the first country across the international date line. It is also a country where blindness, principally from cataracts, is so common that the word for...