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Assessing the quality of scars from incisions made by a Colorado needle or a scalpel
Traditional teaching has held the best scars are achieved with cold steel although no previous study has formally investigated this hypothesis in oculoplastic surgery. This paper describes a non-randomised cross-sectional study comparing the scar quality achieved from cold steel with...The paradox of green: When environmental solutions lead to unintended harm
The global drive toward environmental sustainability is increasingly hampered not by outright denial, but by well-meaning solutions that conceal perverse incentives and unintended ecological consequences. Many popular ‘green’ measures, adopted by simplifying complex environmental challenges into easy substitutions or offsets,...RCOphth (The Royal College of Ophthalmologists) TTT Supervision for Ophthalmic Practitioner Training (OPT)
This Training The Trainers course will help Trainers develop skills to manage trainees in or heading for difficulty. It will show how existing tools can be adapted to help, and give practice in the use of appropriate conversation techniques to...What's trending Apr/May 2021
A round-up of the eye-related hot topics that have been trending on social media over the last few weeks. #COVID-19prevention #spectacles Ocular transmission of COVID-19 was discussed from the very beginning of the pandemic [1-3]. Indeed, it was an Ophthalmologist,...Jury duty
Until a few years ago doctors were exempt from jury duty. I am glad that this exemption was lifted as the stint I did at the crown court in Swansea recently was one of the most illuminating two weeks I...
Cyclosporine A and pterygium fibroblasts
The matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) are a family of structurally related zinc-dependent extracellular matrix degrading proteinases that have been implicated in facilitating the migration and growth of pterygia. Both MMP- 3 and MMP-13 were found to be overexpressed in the fibroblasts...Looking on the brightside: Lord David Blunkett
“I can hear people smile” As a young adult in the 1980s and 1990s I gradually became more politically informed with occasional forays into BBC’s Question Time. In doing so, I learnt of the rise of politician David Blunkett, a...
Exposure to atomic bomb radiation and age-related macular degeneration in later life
This paper is one of the outcomes of the Adult Health Study; a cohort study of the atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima-Nagasaki in Japan. It investigates the proposed association between pasty radiation exposure early in life and the presence of...RANZCO Congress 2025
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists Annual Congress 2025Viva Las Vegas: Dr Corey Hochman
Speaking with Phoenix-based ophthalmologist and poker player, Dr Corey Hochman, Peter Cackett explores the themes of success and failure, and how the ups and downs of one’s ambition can provide an overwhelming gratitude for life. “Money won is twice as...
