We get a version of this question every week from families abroad: “My mother isn’t an Indian citizen anymore — does she need a visa to come in for cataract surgery, and what paperwork do we actually need from you?”…
A patient’s son called me from Chicago last winter, three days before his mother’s cataract surgery, asking a question I get often from NRI families: “Which lens should we actually pick?” His mother was in my clinic in Lajpat Nagar;…
Every year, the same pattern plays out across Delhi once the rains set in — one person in a household gets red, watery eyes, and within a few days, half the family or the whole office has it too. At…
A patient called our Lajpat Nagar centre on a Sunday evening a few months ago, describing what she called “a shower of black dots” that had appeared in one eye within the space of an hour. She’d had ordinary floaters…
A patient in her late 50s came to see me at Paschim Vihar a few weeks ago, convinced her blurry vision meant she needed a stronger pair of glasses — again. She’d already changed her prescription twice in eighteen months,…
Every 15th of August, I brace for the same pattern in the ER: a steady stream of two-wheeler riders, most of them young, coming in with a hand cupped over one eye, having no idea a piece of string caused…
“Will it hurt?” is usually the first question a patient asks once we’ve confirmed they’re a good candidate for LASIK — sometimes before we’ve even discussed cost or scheduling. I remember one patient, a first-year law student who’d been putting…
A patient walked into my Lajpat Nagar clinic last month with three browser tabs open on her phone — one for LASIK, one for SMILE, one for something called ICL she’d seen mentioned in a comment thread. She wasn’t confused…
As parents we watch our kids’ health carefully. We make sure they eat right, get their shots on schedule and visit the doctor when they aren’t feeling well. But eye health often does not get the same attention, largely because…
The majority of eye problems are easy to see. If you have pain, redness, irritation or blurred vision, you know you need to see an optometrist and where to get the best glaucoma surgery in Delhi. Glaucoma is different. Glaucoma,…