How Do You Inspire the Next Generation of Ophthalmologists? (0:49)
Treatment of vision-impairing eye disorders can be life-changing for patients. HealthMaker David Parke, II, MD, CEO of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, talks in this video about how these results inspire up and coming eye professionals.
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The real reason we do it is that you take a patient who has a serious eye disease, who is partially blind, seriously visually impaired, you treat them and many times, two days later, a month later they come in and they say I can see again. I can do the things I wanted to do, I can see my children faces again.
I can drive and that's not something that every special team medicine can say and you take something that people really value and you can change their lives, and that's never going to change.
David Parke, II, MD, CEO of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, discusses the link between diabetes and vision problems, the quest for a cure for blindness, and how the eyes are a window to your overall health.
