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Inside the Hospital Locker Room: Why Your Primary Care Physician (QB) Depends on Specialists (WR, RB, TEs)

18 Dec 2013 eyesteve 1

It’s first and 10, in the middle of the fourth quarter of a tied ballgame. As the quarterback, your team is depending on you to analyze the defense, call audibles using a combination of states, colors, and numbers, and move

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Discharges Against Medical Advice: A Young Doctor’s Dilemma

11 Dec 2013 eyesteve 0

“Despite my advising the patient of the potential risks, he still left against medical advice.” I dictated these exact words in two consecutive discharge summaries last week…on two consecutive days. On Wednesday my words described a patient who, from the

Blog Residency

How Far Down My Residency Rank List Will I Match?

30 Nov 2013 eyesteve 0

Every year, the NRMP releases two reports describing the results of the NRMP residency match. While ophthalmology does not use the NRMP, and instead uses the SF Match system, the data released by the NRMP does provide some insight into

Blog Research

Best of AAO 2013 Awards

25 Nov 2013 eyesteve 1

Each year, thousands of ophthalmologists, venders, and healthcare professionals attend the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO). Inasmuch as this was my second AAO meeting, I was already prepared for the strangely-sized bags that you wonder if whoever

Blog Research

Systemic Comorbidities of Pseudoexfoliative Glaucoma in the Utah Population

16 Nov 2013 eyesteve 0

Click here to download a PDF of the poster I was honored to present at the AAO 2013 Annual Meeting in New Orleans and click here for a link to my other publications listed on Research Gate.

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Stephen Marriott – A Mighty Man Despite Mitochondrial Disease

30 Jun 2013 eyesteve 0

Stephen Marriott and I share many things, including our first name, college alma mater, and fight against debilitating eye disease, but I believe it was something other than our similarities that stood out when reading the news recently of his

Blog Medical Education

How Hospital Privacy Policies Are Inhibiting Medical Education

27 Mar 2013 eyesteve 1

Education is undergoing a revolution Each month 3.5 million students view videos produced by the Kahn Academy on topics ranging from calculus to chemistry and phyics to physiology, TedTalks have boldly branded their motto of “ideas worth spreading” to share solutions

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5 Keys to Successful Medical Student Research

24 Feb 2013 eyesteve 4

What are the keys to successfully performing research while in medical school? Whether you plan to apply for a residency in ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, pediatrics, or any other specialty, you will likely want to be involved in research during medical

Blog Residency

How Can I Avoid Having My Letters of Recommendation Sent Incorrectly to ERAS or SF Match?

22 Feb 2013 eyesteve 0

How can I avoid having my residency letters of recommendation intended for SF Match being incorrectly sent to ERAS and my internship letters of recommendation being sent to the SF Match? The challenge of coordinating the ophtho application and the

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Should I Send Two or Three Letters of Recommendation From Ophthalmologists?

22 Feb 2013 eyesteve 0

“Should I send three ophthalmology-focused letters of recommendation with my application or should I send 2 letters from ophthalmologists and 1 letter from a non-ophthalmologist?” Until recently I had not even considered sending three ophtho letters vs. two ophtho letters

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When Should I Take USMLE Step 2 CK?

21 Jan 2013 eyesteve 32

You will find many different opinions about when is the optimal time to take Step 2 CK. I believe this decision should be based on one main question: What can you do between June and August to best strengthen your

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Innovations in Ophthalmology Resident Surgical Training

28 Dec 2012 eyesteve 1

As our nation nears the frightening fiscal cliff, funding for ophthalmology residency training is unlikely to increase at the rate necessary to meet the projected demand. According to Dr. Peter J. McDonnell at Wilmer Eye Institute in a December 2012

Blog Research

Researchers Use Skin Cells to Study Retinal Diseases

21 Dec 2012 eyesteve 0

When world-renowned clinician scientist Edwin Stone MD, PhD at the University of Iowa asked a group of applicants to the ophthalmology residency program for questions, I curiously asked, “Which of your many research efforts are you most excited about?” Dr.

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Sudan Stops River Blindness With Mectizan

19 May 2012 eyesteve 0

So often as physicians and patients we become frustrated at seemingly ridiculous prices for medications that likely are produced for a fraction of the cost. We view pharmaceutical companies as tyrannical price-gougers that profit from patients, and from patents, at

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Oculeve – An Exciting Solution to Dry Eye Disease

19 May 2012 eyesteve 2

As part of the ARVO 2012 Entrepreneurship in Ophthalmology symposium, we at eyesteve.com were impressed with start-up Oculeve for its innovative solution to dry eye disease. Estimated to affect more than 20 million Americans, with 1.6 million having the most

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Bionic Eye Becomes Battery Free

18 May 2012 eyesteve 0

Published in this week’s Nature Photonics, researchers at Stanford University have taken the next innovative step in treating retinal disease with a wire-free, battery-free bionic eye. Several forms of retinal implants have been in development for over a year, but

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“Entrepreneurship in Ophthalmology” in Review

05 May 2012 eyesteve 0

ARVO Day #1 – Saturday From identifying unmet needs and product concept to intellectual property and commercialization, today’s ARVO education course provided invaluable information to entrepreneurs hoping to have their idea become extremely $$$valuable$$$. The morning presentations provided the basic

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Comparison of the Ratio of Keratometric Change to Refractive Change Induced by Myopic Ablation

04 May 2012 eyesteve 0

Above is the poster that eyesteve.com founder, Steve Christiansen, presented at ARVO 2012 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. This project describes a retrospective analysis of 3337 eyes who underwent LASIK or PRK, and analyzes the ratio of change in keratometry (ΔK) to

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