Question of the Day

I have just examined a 25-year-old male who has recently been diagnosed with cone dystrophy. He asked me what would happen to his sight as he got older. I wasn’t sure what to...

I have just examined a 25-year-old female who has recently been diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa. She asked me what would happen to her sight as she got older. I wasn’t sure...

I have just examined a 25-year-old female who told me she is starting to have hearing problems with both ears and she keeps bumping into things, especially at night, and...

I have just examined a 32-year-old female patient who is new to the practice. She had good visual acuity in each eye with a low prescription for myopia. She was interested in...

I have just examined a 23-year-old male patient who complained of back pain, joint stiffness and being tired all the time. He says he has been examined at the hospital and told...

I am new to the practice I’m working in. I was surprised to see an optical assistant take non-contact tonometry readings from a patient wearing soft contact lenses. When I...

I have just examined a 50-year-old male patient. He is new to my practice. I measured his intraocular pressure as right eye 24, 26, 25 and left 25, 26, 26 using a non-contact...

I have just examined a 75-year-old female patient. This is her first examination in my practice. She is 6/9 and N8 at 35 cm in each eye. She had some drusen near the fovea in...

I have just examined a 65-year-old male patient. He was complaining of blurred, distorted vision in his right eye and problems with reading small print. He is healthy, denies...

My manager at work who is also an eye specialist asked me why I didn’t make a note of the patient’s current spectacle prescription and visual acuities with the current glasses in...