![]() ![]() But people only have so much screen time, so much time where they’re sitting in front of the computer screen or looking on their phone or doing that type of stuff because life is busy. ![]() If you have ever seen my videos online, I do a lot of online video lectures, you’ll find them on YouTube. Lawton Smith, that’s for darn sure, but I did find the experience listening to the audio while walking around quite good because reality is, I do a lot of videos. ![]() I enjoyed the dialogue, I think it made me a better doctor. I found the entire experience very interesting, the audio was fantastic. It’s really funny, it’s strange it can’t come with such an accent and such a great intellect. He worked down at Bascom Palmer down in Miami, Florida but he was from South Carolina and he was famous for his teaching style and partly because he just had a really interesting way of speaking, had an extremely dense Southern Carolina accent and he would say things like, pure as Ivory soap and you’re a rube and all these crazy Southern Carolina backward sayings. He died a couple of years ago but he was one of the great neuro-ophthalmologists of the past 50 years. I don’t know if you have ever had any familiar idea with J. I really enjoyed listening to these lectures and hear Dr. Neuro-ophthalmology, talking about neuro anatomy in an audio format was quite challenging but I did find the experience extremely enlightening and very educational for me. As I commute around the city, I would listen to this lectures and they were pretty dense. They were online so they put them up in a novel website and I downloaded all the mp3s and loaded them on my mp3 player. I found a series of audio lectures recorded by the great neuro-ophthalmologist J. During that time, I had to do quite a lot of self-study to try to understand a very confusing topic, neuro-ophthalmology is one of the more difficult sub-specialties to comprehend. When I was an ophthalmology resident, I had a great fortune of spending a good month up in New York City rotating with a neuro-ophthalmologist. And the reason why is the cornea, that clear window on the front of the eye lets us look inside the eye, so a lot to examine, a lot to document and it’s all crammed into a tiny space.īut before we get going on the basic eye exam, I wanted to spend a little bit of time talking about the motivation behind this program and why are we doing with this. It’s one of the smallest organs we can actually examine but there is a lot to see. The eye is quite different.įor one thing, it’s much smaller, the eyes are only about one inch in diameter. If you are a medical student or practicing doctor, much of your training to this point has probably involved a basic whole body exam. The eye exam is quite different than a medicine exam. Now, sight is arguably the most important sense for both survival and quality of life. Just look for episode 1 and leave a comment if you have one. If you have questions or comments about today’s discussion, just visit the show notes. The show notes for this episode are available at, that’s E-Y-E. Timothy Root, I’m a general ophthalmologist and cataract surgeon. ![]() No matter if you are a student, a practicing doctor or just a curious person wanting to learn more about the eye, we can all learn more with thoughtful discussion. This is an audio program dedicated to teaching you about the eye and ocular disease. In a world without good eye education, a beacon of hope was born. This is Eye Basics 101 Episode 1: The Basic Eye Exam in the meantime, I’ve copied my show outline below in case you want to read it while listening. I’m having the episode transcribed, but this will take a few days. You can listen to the show with the links above. This is the first episode of this program, so I’m still putting things together. ![]()
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