Ophthalmology Perspective

• Best & Worst Places to Practice 2022 Some states offer lots of perks and temptations for physician practices, although each doctor has their own priorities that make some places more desirable.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, May 20, 2022
• How Medicine Is Failing a Nation in Pain   Pain is central to every specialty, and we all played a part in the opioid crisis, says Dr Haider Warraich, author of The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain.
  Medscape, May 20, 2022
• The PreserFlo MicroShunt: A Conversation With Dr Ike Ahmed Dr Patel interviews Iqbal "Ike" K. Ahmed, MD, about the PreserFlo MicroShunt, an 8-mm-long tube that is inserted into the eye to help lower eye pressure in glaucoma.
  Medscape Ophthalmology, May 19, 2022
• Medscape Ophthalmologist Compensation Report 2022 Medscape's Ophthalmologist Compensation Report 2022 explores income sources, pay gaps, and attitudes about work as COVID's impact on medical practices declines.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, May 13, 2022
• The Case for Post-COVID Steroids   Dr F. Perry Wilson cautions against changing practice on the basis of a single study.
  Medscape, May 12, 2022
• Treatment of Exudative (Wet) Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD): The Knowns and the Unknowns   Sunir Garg, MD, considers what he has learned in the years since the first anti-VEGF therapies became available for wet age-related macular degeneration.
  Medscape, May 11, 2022
• Tracking the Evolution of Management Options in Wet AMD   Sunir Garg, MD, recalls an uncomfortable conversation with his first patient with wet AMD and reflects on therapeutic advances.
  Medscape, May 09, 2022
• How Home Diagnostic Tools Will Alter the Future of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration   SriniVas R. Sadda, MD, discusses how the future of home diagnostic tools and home monitoring for patients with exudative (wet) age-related macular degeneration will dramatically alter how patients are managed.
  Medscape, May 06, 2022
• A Doctor, a Poem, and a License to Reflect   The arts offer powerful ways to reconnect with the sentiments and motivations that brought us to medicine in the first place.
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 05, 2022
• Treatment of Exudative (Wet) Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD): The Promise of Meeting the Needs   Sunir Garg, MD, discusses unmet needs in the management of wet age-related macular degeneration.
  Medscape, May 02, 2022
• Cure, Prevent, or Manage All Disease: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Bold Plan Is Already Working   Dr Eric Topol sits down with Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to talk about the next phase of their ambitious Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
  Medscape, April 28, 2022
• Infographic: Physician Incomes Gain, Pay Gaps Remain The Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2022 infographic shows growth in physician income, specialties with biggest pay gains, and pay disparities between men and women and between ethnic groups.
  Medscape, April 22, 2022
• Graves Disease, Thyroid Eye Disease, and COVID-19 Is there a link between COVID-19 cases or vaccinations and the increased reports of thyroid autoimmunity and its complications? Drs McLeod and Balcerek attempt to answer this question.
  American Thyroid Association, April 21, 2022
• Animal Reservoirs, Immunocompromised Hosts: COVID Dangers Ahead   Stanford's Benjamin Pinsky on the potential for even more transmissible and pathogenic versions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to arise.
  Medscape, April 21, 2022
• Long-Term Anti-VEGF Delivery System Draws Closer to Primetime The Port Delivery System is a refillable intravitreal implant designed to deliver a continuous supply of ranibizumab into the vitreous. Is it as good as intravitreal ranibizumab injections?
  Medscape Ophthalmology, April 20, 2022
• A Look Back at the Evolution in the Management of Exudative (Wet) Age-Related Macular Degeneration   SriniVas R. Sadda, MD, recounts a patient experience that underscores the advances in wet AMD treatment.
  Medscape, April 19, 2022
• Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2022: Incomes Gain, Pay Gaps Remain Income is starting to recover for many physicians, who are still trying to overcome a very tough year.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, April 15, 2022
• What's Better: Residual Hyperopia or Residual Myopia? Dr Garg discusses a paper from Dr Steven Schallhorn and colleagues on the effect of residual astigmatism on uncorrected visual acuity and patient satisfaction.
  Medscape Ophthalmology, April 11, 2022
• Eric Topol: 'I Still Have My Guard Up'   Why we should be shifting into high gear on treatments for long COVID and a pan-beta-coronavirus vaccine.
  Medscape, April 08, 2022
• How and Why the Language of Medicine Must Change Words matter. Which of today's commonly used terms need updating, and what are better alternatives?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, March 30, 2022