For the longest time, waiting rooms were the butt of jokes for their sorry collections of old magazines. It always seemed a bit mean to me. Your doctor, or you dentist, or your optician had thoughtfully put out something for you to read while you wait. They didn't have to bother, but here you were
One of the oddest things about New Zealand is the incredible enthusiasm most people have for 'getting away'. Given the size of the country, it’s pretty tough to get really far away from whatever moves
Patients suffering from age-related macular degeneration (AMD) can feel encouraged by the latest therapeutic discoveries.
No matter how many times it happens, I am always wildly impressed to be shown an image of my eyeball.
For normal folk, running out of milk and bread isn't really that big a deal. They can hop in the car or pop up to the nearest dairy and, to be honest it wasn't that much of a problem for me either, even though my wife Pam was away for a few days. My friendly local store was just a five-minute walk a
Macular degeneration (MD) no longer sentences patients to functional blindness, but early diagnosis and referral is crucial, as are optometrists as the front-line eye health care providers who can educate, refer and support.
Our grandfather was very loved by his family and never in any way neglected or overlooked. I just want to make that clear, because now I want to say this: after the funeral, his ashes were placed on a shelf by the undertaker, waiting to be collected. And there they stayed, waiting, for 20 years.
What used to be a pleasant event has become the subject of much family debate. 'Let's eat out!' was a popular proposition. We would get into the car and cruise the local eateries until a decision was reached. From memory, there was never a unanimous vote, so it was quite common for one of us to sit
As an aging population, growing patient-to-ophthalmologist ratios, demand for new treatments and an increasingly stretched healthcare dollar put eye care under more and more pressure internationally, the scope of optometry is changing.
I have yet to ride a Lime Scooter, but when it comes to the internet, boy was I an early and enthusiastic adopter. Back then there was just a solitary guy at Telecom responsible for keeping their internet service going from an office in Airedale St in Auckland, and there was a guy at Waikato Univers
I must confess to being fairly ambivalent about the plight of blind folk till I joined their ranks. Sure, they were around, but - as for most people - not really part of my world. I was happy to give a few dollars of conscience money on appeal days just as I did with all the other causes that didn’t
People come from all over to see the biggest tourist attraction in Auckland. Paris has a tower, San Francisco has a bridge, Auckland has an old sewage tank. Down under the ground you go, and for 30, 40 dollars you get to take a good old look around. Of course, it’s a bit more than a sewage tank. It
