Saving Sight: An Eye Surgeon's Look at Life Behind the Mask and the Heroes Who Changed the Way We See

Synopsis

The Author Relates His Personal Experience As A Retinal Surgeon To Present The Fundamentals Of Human Vision And The Stories Of Inventors Connected To Modern-day Techniques For Treating Eye And Vision Disorders, Including Eye Trauma, Cataracts, Lasik, Retinal Detachments, And Macular Degeneration. Lucky -- This Operation Should Never Be Done. Harold Ridley And The Intraocular Lens -- The Delicious Sensation Of The Ultrasonic Probe Against My Teeth... Charles Kelman And Phacoemulsification -- I Did Not Want To Be Considered A Military Hero. Charles Schepens And The Binocular Indirect Ophthalmoscope -- ...eighteen Out Of Twenty-one... Arnall Patz, Retinopathy Of Prematurity, And A Looming Crisis -- Whaddya Mean It's A Shot? In My Eye? Judah Folkman, Angiogenesis, And The Treatment Of Wet Macular Degeneration -- I Really Do Want To See The Alarm Clock In The Morning The Evolution Of Refractive Surgery -- If I Cannot Discover A Way To Read And Write...i Shall Kill Myself. Louis Braille And Nightwriting -- Visionaries. Andrew Lam, M.d. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 205-222).