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Learning from your colleagues
I was recently visited by a friend and colleague, Kamal Kapur, MD, from the Sharp Sight Centres in New Delhi, India. Dr. Kapur is a superb surgeon and teacher, and I've had the pleasure of learning from him at many meetings across the globe. After the recent ASCRS meeting, he extended his stay and visited me during one of my surgery days.
 A trusted friend and colleague, Kamal Kapur, MD. |
Dr Kapur is not only a high-volume cataract and refractive surgeon, but he's very innovative in his thinking. He truly understands the engineering behind our surgical techniques, and he constantly improves each procedure. Throughout my surgical day, he had ideas about making the surgery and entire process more efficient and easier.
A few of his great pearls for posterior chamber phakic lenses: Use only the paracentesis incisions to avoid collapse of the anterior chamber, which may happen if the main incision is used for anything other than lens insertion; use a curved 27-gauge cannula to irrigate the viscoelastic from behind a lens implant; avoid making the peripheral iridotomies in the far periphery of the iris since they may become blocked as the pupil expands scotopic conditions.
He had even more great pearls for cataract patients. I was lucky to have such a great colleague and friend teach me in my own operating room. I'm convinced that I'll be a lifelong student of ophthalmology and that I would enjoy spending time in Dr. Kapur's operating theaters.