Dr. Bharat Desai's Blog

Aging brings loss of vision due to loss of transparency in the crystalline lens of the eye and the condition is known as Cataract . No medicine can cure it, so surgery to remove the opaque lens and replace it with an artificial lens is the only remedy. With the advent of microscopes and phaco machines, cataract surgery has become a miracle bringing great visual results. But surgery has its own challenges. Here, we as surgeons are afraid of infection leading to endophthalmitis and the second is intraoperative drownings of the crystalline lens in the vitreous chamber. Either of the two complications can lead to visual damage and phthisis - softening of the eyeball to the shrunken small eye. So though results are the best most of the time, it cannot be so each and every time and complications can occur. What are the expectations of a cataract patient going for surgery? Though this may sound to be a simple question, the answer is a bit complicated. I will start from the expectations. one b...

An individual professionally trained to treat an ill and suffering person (patient) is a doctor. And their natural relationship is a bilateral one. When a doctor is sincere, focused, patient, persistent with ethical conduct, a continuous learner, and doing keen observation – it is certain that doctor–patient relationship is the most enduring and satisfying relationship where the doctor learns to hear and see with heart and mind. This healthy and strong relationship will survive forever. (A) Doctors and patients are the two sides of the same coin fighting their common enemy: disease. In fact, medicine is not a mere profession, it is a calling, a mission, or perhaps even devotion. (C) During sickness, the patient and his entire family look up to only one person after God and that is the doctor. In the old days, when doctors relied more on their clinical skills than on investigation, patients trusted them with full faith. In those old days doctor was a healthcare giver, philosopher, guide...