In this video I answer your questions from the Instagram polls talking mostly about ophthalmology and some questions about residency and fellowship in Oculoplastic surgery.
Do you think that not being able to read all of the Ishihara plates (no problem with color vision in real life) is a big contrindication to apply for ophthalmology residency?
Doc, a question about complications management during surgeries, like lets say a patient who takes anti coagulation drugs, forgot the doc advice on putting them aside the day before the surgery, do you experience that quite often? and does it make the surgery more risky/complex
I was told I had lupus a year ago. I have been having a flare for 2 months now and it's been pure hell. The rheumatologist told me that she wanted me to see a eye doctor to have a eye check up to make sure everything is good with my eyes bc they tend to become red bc my face gets so hot. I'm so scared..
Hello doc! I was diagnosed with astigmatism 1 and a half years ago. My glasses lens are so scratched now that i need to replace them. Do i need to go to the Ophtalmologist again? Or i can just replace the lens and that's it? I read on google that Ophtalmologist and Optometrist are diffrent types of doctors and i need to go to ophtalmologist less often, only when i have a problem. I'm asking you that becouse im pretty sure if i call and ask the clinic where i was diagnosed, they will tell me that i must be reexamined just to charge some money frome me and it's not that cheap.. Thank you! :)
I have new prescription sunglasses same as my normal ones. But I feel like its different . Is it normal to have to adapt again even though is the same prescription as my normal glasses? Is it because they are sunglasses? 😅.
Hi doctor, I’m hoping you can help me. I’ve been dealing with a situation. Since the end of august I’ve been feeling like i have something moving in both eyes. I have been seen multiple time by ophthalmologist and they can’t find anything in my eyes. I have also taken 30 days of albendazol, three doses of ivermectin 5 days each dose and four weeks of doxycycline and nothing seems to make this sensation stop. Every eye exam that I’ve had come back normal. No inflammation or scaring. Everything seems normal . Do you think this could be an eye parasite or something else? Please help I’m desperate to figure out what’s wrong with my eyes.
Doc I have an important question, I’m in the process of deciding whether I will do radiology or Ophthalmology after gradutaion, it’s better to decide before graduating in my country because for example if you do the internship in ophthalmology, then it’s easier for your cv when applying later and vice versa, so my question is, if i’m not sure I would be good at eye surgery, or even get the chance to learn it (in Germany it’s very competitive to get the chance to learn eye surgery, in addition to the already existent competitiveness of the field) is it still possible to live and earn well as a non-surgical working ophthalmologist (you know the whole field without the surgical part)? Or then i’m considered a half doctor and should rather do radiology at that point?
Hi, I can’t speak exactly to this because I don’t know the ins and outs of other countries medical systems. However, I can say that I wouldn’t worry too much about “being good at eye surgery“ because that is what they teach you to do no one is good at it when they start that’s what the training is for and no one is screened out in the beginning on the basis of any pre-existing surgical skills. In terms of doing non-surgical ophthalmology, I would say that resembles more doing optometry. I don’t know what that looks like in Germany exactly but I personally would definitely want to keep the surgical part of the specialty as that’s the most fun. I wouldn’t say however that it makes you a half doctor to do that. I don’t know if that helps but I hope it does.
I know you asked this question to doc and with all due to respect to him I personally would have gone for radiology in my country at least but if you find it extremely boring and uninteresting then you shouldn't take it cause then you will most likely betray your interest and that will haunt you and ruin your career.
Do you prefer radiology yourself? Im still unsure because I feel although ophthalmology is relatively smaller in comparison and dorsn’t have that stressful nature but I’m a bit timid about the surgical aspect, although willing to develop and learn new things
I considered it at one point, but I have a fairly strong prescription so it would be a little bit tougher to get me perfect without still needing a little extra help from contacts or glasses so to me it wasn’t worth it. I think they are great surgeries with incredibly high success rates and exceedingly low complication rates, but given what I do, it’s not even worth any potential risk to me.
