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Bores Eye Institute, Scottsdale, Arizona. Text/atlas for the beginning refractive surgeon of techniques such as radial keratotomy, lamellar refractive surgery, and clear lens extraction. The author introduced radial keratotomy to the western world after its perfection in Russia. ... Read more

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This handy A-Z pocket book covers a broad range of anterior segment eye conditions and how to manage them with ocular therapeutics. It provides treatment protocols and down-to-earth sensible advice and lists differential diagnoses. An indispensible ready-reference book for the busy practitioner and an ideal concise encyclopedia for the student, this book is an essential clinical handbook for all eye-care professionals diagnosing and managing anterior eye disease.

* A-Z format gives instant access to clinical information
* Each condition is covered on a double-page spread providing concise but comprehensive coverage
* Icons illustrate 'at-a-glance' diagnosis, treatment and management options for each condition
* Comprehensive appendix covers essential advice on medications and procedures
* Superb full-colour clinical photographs illustrate each condition ... Read more

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A most useful reference!
This book is a succint, but comprehensive, presentation of most of the anterior eye diseases which an optometrist or ophthalmologist may encounter in clinical practice. The A-Z format (rather than the traditional grouping by anatomical location) makes finding entries easier.

It complements similar references such as the Wills Eye Manual, however the excellent photographs are an advantage over the Wills.

It is certainly an excellent learning tool for students, and a very useful chairside reference for practising clinicians. Highly recommended! ... Read more

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Written by experts on the forefront of investigations of brain function, vision, and perception, the material presented is of an unparalleled scientific quality, and shows that analyses of enormous breadth and sophistication are required to probe the structure and function of brain regions.The articles are highly persuasive in showing what can be achieved by carrying out careful and imaginative experiments. The Cat Primary Visual Cortex should emerge as essential reading for all those interested in cerebral cortical processing of visual signals or researching or working in any field of vision.

Key Features
* Comprehensive account of cat primary visual cortex
* Generous use of illustrations including color
* Covers research from structure to connections to functions
* Chapters by leaders in the field
* Topics presneted on multiple, compatible levels ... Read more

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amazing pictures
When you think there's nothing like the patient to show you how to do your surgery, then this book appears with amazingly realistic pictures to help you through every aspect of your next day's case. It's very helpful and easy to use.

It is so practical
This book is so practical and useful. Before the operation, I could have got the important information about surgery ... Read more

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The most thorough step-by-step guide to ocular examination procedures. Presents detailed step-by-step procedures for over 125 ocular evaluation techniques. Revised and updated, this edition features at-a-glance summaries of multi-step procedures as well as new procedures including corneal topography, pharmacological pupil testing, and photostress test. ... Read more

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OPTOMETRY STUDENTS AND OPTHAMOLOGY RESIDENTS NEED THIS BOOK
A complete guide to all primary care procedures that one performs during routine exams. The text is clear and concise on each procedure and explains normal and abnormal findings. The appropriate method for recording is also detailed in this book. This is a must for any optometry student or ophthalmology resident. ... Read more

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Relearning to See explains how to improve eyesight naturally by relearning correct, natural, relaxed vision habits-exactly the same habits you used to have when you used to see clearly.

Relearning to See describes how thousands of people have improved or eliminated nearsightedness (myopia), astigmatism, farsightedness (hyperopia), 'old-age' sight (presbyopia), 'crossed eye' (strabismus), 'lazy eye' (amblyopia), light sensitivity, dry eyes, and many other, even serious, vision problems.

Many students have discarded glasses completely or have avoided moving into them with this educational program. Blurred vision is not due to genetics or age; those are myths that have needlessly locked people into the crutches of glasses for centuries.

Your eyesight can improve completely naturally-without eye exercises, glasses, contact lenses, orthokeratology, or surgeries. ... Read more

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best modern presentation of the Bates Method
This large book is on the Bates Method, which Tom has been teaching for about fifteen years. Large portions of Bates's book and magazines are quoted, and while there is no substitute for reading Bates's book and all his magazines yourself, this book reviews what Bates taught more comprehensively than any other author. If it were not for this and Tom's other book, The Complete Magazines of William H. Bates, I might never have understood the Bates Method as it is meant to be understood.

Tom emphasizes relearning to use natural, relaxed vision habits all day long, habits which most people with imperfect sight had as children. Even those people such as me who have had eye problems all their lives, even as infants, unconsciously know how to use their eyes and mind in the right way.

He also goes over a number of modern issues that Bates was not aware of in his time, such as color therapy, left and right brain hemispheres, and healing crises.

Encyclopedia of vision improvement
Far and away the most comprehensive book on vision improvement I've come across, this is more of an encyclopedia than a book you read straight through. Mr. Quackenbush - not an eye doctor, but a long-time teacher of the Bates method - goes through the mechanics and physiology of the eye and the eye's natural vision habits in exhaustive detail. He also gives pointers on reducing one's prescription, movement exercises, acupressure, relaxation games, left-brain/right-brain physiology, and holistic health, all geared toward improving your eyesight. Central to his teaching of the Bates method is that there are NO exercises. These are habits which are to be practiced 24 hours a day! And they are so simple, so easy to do, and afterwards you'll wonder why people are still stuck in poor vision.

Tom, who founded the Natural Vision Center, used to teach his courses in the San Francisco Bay Area but is now in Ashland, Oregon. I've taken his natural vision course and I found it to be profound. It's been a year and a half; my prescription used to be 20/400, but now I can occasionally see 20/50 or better. Progress is expected to be slow but steady, and I saw jumps in my vision after only a few weeks in the course.

concise and detailed
I did not realize this was such a large book and technical at the same time. But it is concise and thorough and I skipped many of the technical explanations and derived the main geist of improving vision naturally.

Mainly the book conveys the importance of relearning correct habitual seeing at all times as opposed to exercises for the eyes. The book is emphatic and focused on this point.

Mainly the three habits of seeing is blinking, sketching, and breathing and the book goes to great lenghts to explain and convince in many different situations its relevance.

Outstanding reading. Just realizing your erred visual habits will improve your sight to an extent which varies widely but as the book says it will take more time and relearning to undo years or lifetime of incorrect habits that it becomes natural and subconcious as was what you were born.

Hallelujah!
Hallelujah I can see... well actually I already could, but having Keratoconus made wearing glasses mostly a waste of time. So I did like the book said and quite wearing them. I can now go out on a bright day without dark sunglasses. After reading all 521 pages in the book the techniques become second nature. I bought a pile of them to give out as Christmas gifts to all my four eyed friends, and family members. If you cherish sight then this is a must buy.

Excellent, well-written, thorough book....(perhaps too much)
I thought this book was excellent in explaining anything you could possibly want to know about the eyes - almost like a biology/physics textbook, and it has a ton of excerpts from Bates original publications. The book is well-written, and my eyes were glued to it (probably reducing my eyesight LOL)- I sped through it within 2 days.
In general, I found this book to be *extremely informative*, and very in-depth and perhaps giving me much more than i really wanted to know.
It definitely gives a person hope that he/she can improve their eyesight, all you need is *dedication* and *motivation*. I have not been able to make a habit of doing the 'exercises' yet, so I can't comment on that, but the belief that poor eyesight comes from straining is something i believe in, and therefore reversible. ... Read more

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This volume provides comprehensive coverage of both basic andadvanced eyelid surgery of the soft tissue in the eyelid and theperiorbital area. Written by distinguished and experienced surgeons,the book covers evaluation procedures, surgical treatments, treatmentof complications, and issues of patient management. The surgicaltechniques included range from standard techniques for the generalophthalmologist to complex procedures performed by such specialists asoculoplastic and plastic surgeons. Among the highlights of the book isa chapter on the endoscopic forehead lift, a new, important technique.Also included are descriptions of techniques used by the authors thathave not yet been described elsewhere in the literature. The bookcontains more than 900 illustrations showing conditions that need to bevisualized and demonstrating steps in actual surgical procedures. ... Read more

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This atlas is a pictorial guide to the interpretation ofautomated visual fields. It presents more than 300 visual fields fromactual patients that illustrate key points in analyzing visual fields.Each field is accompanied by a brief clinical history, interpretation,and explanation. By looking at the fields and reading the text, thereader will evolve a systematic approach to analyzing automated fieldsand will develop pattern recognition for most fields encountered inclinical practice.Coverage encompasses all ocular diseases diagnosableby automated visual field tests--opacification of the ocular media;chorioretinal disease; glaucomatous visual field loss; non-glaucomatousoptic nerve disorders; chiasmal visual field loss; retrochiasmal visualfield loss; non-physiologic visual field loss; and blepharoptosis. Alsoincluded is a chapter on artifacts in automated perimetry. Theconcluding chapter offers guidelines for assessing visual disability. ... Read more

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Health Care in the New Millennium is written by futurist Ian Morrison-author of The Second Curve and Future Tense and one of our nation's foremost health care analysts.

In this provocative book, Morrison gives health care executives, doctors, and nurses a guided tour of what's in store for health care in the coming years and explains . . .
• Why our one-trillion dollar health care industry has so many unhappy stakeholders
• Why investor-owned health systems are failing
• Why so few market-based reforms work
• Why health care leaders need new visions of what is possible for the future

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Univ. of Oxford, U.K. Classic anatomy reference for students and practitioners. Includes seven new chapters. Illustrations extensively updated. Previous edition edited by Roger Warwick (c1976). ... Read more

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Gross disappointment
What a tremendous disappointment.
This book is generally held to be the classic eye anatomy text. Yet it is riddled with mistake after mistake. I remain unconvinced that there was any attempt in editing this text.

Wolff's draws heavily on Hogan and Alverado for its histology, indeed it is more or less a paraphrase. Yet in certain places eg the chapter on the Lens, a diagram taken from Hogan's is referenced as taken from "The HISTORY of the eye"!!!

While the headings provide a good outline of the chapter, the text itself is written in poor English, riddled with mistakes and generally unsuitable for gaining a good understanding of the anatomy of the eye.

I sure there must be other alternatives available for those interested in understanding the anatomy of the eye.

Review of Wolff's Anatomy of the Eye and Orbit
This book is widely regarded as the best text for studying ocular anatomy. However many students of this text find it terribly flawed.

The book is poorly written with many contradictions within itself, a prime example being the structure of iridial blood vessels.

The english is poor leading to ambiguity in many sections. The material is presented in a disjointed fashion with emphasis on presenting different and controversial research views while missing the key point at times.

The sections on microscopic anatomy are basically summarised from the text "Histology of the Human Eye" by Hogan, Alvarado and Weddel which remains a MUCH better written book. To gain a good understanding, Hogan must be read along with Wolff. Wolff manages to completely contradict Hogan in places...while this may be because Hogan is old (written in 1971) one cannot help but question whether Wolff is correct, seeing mistakes in it are so common. A large proportion of Wolff's pictures are from Hogan. It is a real shame that Hogan is out of print.

To gain an understanding of each topic it is advisable to first read the section in a smaller book such as the one by Snell and Lemp, rather than wading blindly through Wolff.

References to diagrams are often misreferenced ie they point to the wrong diagram which is extremely frustrating. A lot of space is wasted with references to authors - numbers in superscript would have shrunk the book considerably.

On the whole this reader gets the impression that the book has been written by several authors, none of whom have come to a general consensus about the material, and all of whom seem to be absent-minded professors revelling in the ambiguity they have masterfully created. ... Read more

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great ophthalmology review
This is a book of review questions including a discussion for each answer. This book is extremely useful for ophthalmology residents as well as recent grads preparing for the boards. it covers all topics in an easy to use format. ... Read more

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This state-of-the-art reference covers every aspect of ophthalmology, combining the latest on genetics, diagnostic tips and techniques, proven management strategies, surgical approaches, new drugs, and more. An esteemed author team and contributions of hundreds of top-tier practitioners provide trustworthy guidance on practically every ophthalmic condition and procedure. It is filled with an impressive collection of 2,500 detailed photographic images, and includes a CD-ROM with full text, slides, and navigation tools for quick access and easy use. ... Read more

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Excellent book
The book is probably the best Ophthalmology text ever written. It has a very broad content and the information results very useful. It`s also incredibly well ilustrated and the print is of the highest quality. It`s a pleasure to read this masterwork.

Probably the best general ophthalmic text available
This is currently the preferred general text-book in Melbourne, Australia for studying for our equivalent of the board examinations. It is comprehensive, up-to-date and lucid. There is minimal extraneous information, but sufficient detail for the purposes of most general ophthalmologists. It is liberally illustrated, and the quality of photographs is generally very high indeed. There are a few photographs of difficult to photograph conditions that are not up to the generally excellent quality.

My main complaints at present are the too common typographical errors and variations in format across chapters.

a milestone for the new millenium
Congratulations to the books'editors and contributors for having produced the new standard reference one volume textbook in Ophth.Terrific layout,generous and outstanding illustrations and tables,text from some of the worlds' best clinicians and researchers and on top of that a joy for the eye!That's how medical books will look in the new millenium.It's a pity it only came out a few months before finishing my residency.

VERY WELL WRITTEN WITH EXCELLENT ILLUSTRATIONS
This book is very well written, with some fantastic illustrations.It serves as a logical intermediate successor to previous textbooks in the field of Ophthalmology. A must read for all Ophthalmology residents, and physicians in training, The CD version is a superb reference for busy practitioners. ... Read more

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Excellent Reference
An excellent follow up to the last edition. Quick and easy to find information in the clinic setting. A book I use on a regular basis. This book also has excellent background information for the student. Of value to students and practitioners. ... Read more

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One-stop reference to more than 5,000 of the most frequently used terms, phrases and abbreviations associated with the eye and vision, and 1,000 abbreviations and acronyms. The definitions are in "plain English" so everyone can understand them, with phonetic pronounciations..

Special Features: Common misspellings are listed alphabetically, so you don't need to spell a word to find it; mini-definitions are within definitions, so you don't waste time looking up cross-references. ... Read more

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The Tech Bowl Reference
If you want to compete - and win! - at the ATPO Tech Bowl at AAO (and local ophthalmology society Tech Bowl-style quiz competitions) this is among the best references to study, along with Stein/Slat/Stein.

A must for all eye-care professionals
This dictionary is perfect for the person who either can't spell perfectly 100% of the time, or wants to increase his/her eye terminology with more professional vocabulary. A must for all eye-care professionals!

Excellent book for Medical Transcriptionist
I am a Medical Transcriptionist who obtained an opthalmologist as one of the clients we transcribe for. I had no training in opthalmology, but with the use of this book I was able to transcribe each report as if I were doing it for years. This a great book. I hope they come out with more dictionaries that are geared towards other types of specialities (i.e. orthopedics, radiology, ob/gyn, etc... ... Read more