Jun 28, 2018
In Episode 5, Darrell White, MD, shares his thoughts on why every ophthalmologist in every subspecialty should be aware of the prevalence of dry eye and its impact on eye care.
- Everyone – including retina specialists need to be aware of dry eye :58
- Financial disclosures 1:10
- The hot dot in eye care 1:40
- The space is growing: More people have dry eye and it’s affecting more of their lives 2:31
- Dry eye and presbyopia-correcting IOLs 3:17
- White’s personal dry eye story 4:54
- Starting a dry eye practice from scratch 7:37
- The archetypal patient defined in market research done by Allergan 8:12
- The 3-generation decision maker on medical care for the family 9:10
- Going from 0 patients on day 1, to more than 5,000 active patients in the first year 11:08
- What has changed since then 11:52
- Multi-screen lifestyle increasing dry eye population 12:05
- The biggest symptom is blurry vision 13:34
- The Linda Blair dry eye patient 14:41
- Listen to your patient 15:56
- Treating meibomian gland disease
- Diagnosing dry eye 17:50
- Treating the dry eye patient 18:51
- Artificial tears 19:00
- Hypotonic tears 19:30
- Restasis and Xiidra 20:56