After the advent of a Weiss's Ring two weeks ago, my eye doc said that although she saw nothing serious happening, it would be a good time for someone as
myopic as me to see a retinal specialist. I saw the guy yesterday. FYI, I live in the Northeast close to both NYC and Yale New Haven Hospital, and this doc is
well respected with a booming practice. After having my eyeballs brutalized for quite a while, he told me, as I expected, that I had a vitreous detachment,
blah blah blah. (Also a small retinal hole that needs lasering in my "good" eye.) When he mentioned that he, too, lived with a Weiss's ring, I
thought it seemed like a good moment to raise the topic of laser surgery, and asked if he'd ever considered it. I expected the standard spiel that the
procedure was unproven and ill-advised. Instead, he said, "There is no laser surgery for floaters." I told him I knew of several doctors who did
exactly that. He shook his head and smiled as one would at a rather slow child and said "There's no such thing." I'm not sure if he truly had
never heard of the procedure or was just so dismissive of it that he refused to acknowledge it as something real.
So, who is going to break the news to Drs. Keller and Karickhoff that their work is just a figment of their imaginations?
So, who is going to break the news to Drs. Keller and Karickhoff that their work is just a figment of their imaginations?

