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As long as you qualify for it, ICL is an excellent option and can give you excellent vision. Just find someone who does it regularly.

Yes.

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It will be hard to write a personal statement that doesn’t belie your ambivalence. Sent from my iPhone using SDN mobile

How many years out of training are you? Sent from my iPhone using SDN mobile

Approximately how many surgeries are you doing in a week and how many patients are you seeing in a day? What percentage of cataract surgeries are you upcharching (premium lenses, laser, etc)? Do you do any lasik or other cash procedures? Sent from my iPhone using SDN mobile

I may be completely off base on this, but would an electrophysiology fellowship give you a bit of what you're looking for in dealing with less emergent stuff and more quality of life issues? Sent from my iPhone using SDN mobile

Certainly talk to him and express your interest. And certainly ask if there is a way you could do some work/research with him. I would hold off on directly asking him to help you get into residency though. Establish a relationship first. Nothing to feel weird about if you go about it right...

I said nothing about learning and doing cases or relaxing. My point is about the learning environment and working with dinguses. You can learn and do cases in a good, enjoyable environment with enjoyable people, or you can learn and do cases in an unnecessarily stressed out and a&&hole-full...

It does matter if you are comparing similarly tiered programs. Also, some people value happiness and civility over prestige and would pick a lower "ranked" program with more support over a fancy, malignant program. That being said, I know nothing about Wilmer or whether it is malignant...

I think the majority of the posters here are from the US, so most of us don't know what a TSC is. Maybe if you explain the difference between the two, we could be more helpful. Sent from my iPhone using SDN mobile

I'm on the side of the OP here. I have ZERO intention of doing research as an attending. I went into medicine to be a physician and surgeon and fix people, period. Not to be a researcher. Other people can have an interest in it and study this or that and its efficacy or whatever, and I'm glad...

Something you might bring up if it becomes relevant: if the attending didn't do anything wrong, why were you suspended for telling someone about it? If it was THAT bad that they are willing to suspend you for talking about it, does that not prove that the offense is legitimate? Sent from my...

I have a 20 and and 90. I've tried pretty much every lens out there during residency, finding lenses laying around the clinic and using them for a while to get a feel for them. Maybe it's just because it's what I started out on, but I've always come back to the 90 and the 20. Sent from my...

I could be wrong, but the line that it's not legal to do a test without billing sounds like total BS. You can provide whatever medical services you want for free to your patients. Sent from my iPhone using SDN mobile