A patient’s son messaged us from Toronto last month with a fairly common scenario: his father had been told he needed glaucoma surgery “soon,” but the family wasn’t sure whether that meant this month or sometime in the next year,…
A patient’s daughter called our emergency line from London at 2 am her time last year, after her father in Gurugram described “something like a black curtain” coming down over part of his vision. She’d looked it up while still…
I had a patient last year whose glaucoma was picked up almost by accident — her daughter, living in the Bay Area, happened to mention during a routine call that their grandfather had gone blind from “high pressure in the…
I get this question almost every time an NRI patient books a LASIK consultation during their India trip: “Can I get this done while I’m here for two weeks, and still enjoy the rest of the vacation?” The honest answer…
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;…