Canaloplasty Surgery Patient Testimonial. Gary Wheeler just had canaloplasty surgery performed by Dr. David D. Richardson. He kindly agreed to share his experience with everyone.
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About Dr. Richardson:
David Richardson, MD. is a Board-certified Ophthalmologist (Eye Surgeon) in California. He has completed his undergraduate studies at University of Southern California, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and received many academic awards. He earned his medical degree at the prestigous Harvard Medical School with scholarships from Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. He was also awarded with Harvard Medical Linnane Scholarship and Harvard National Scholarship. While in medical school, Dr. Richardson accepted a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study visual cognition. He then completed an internal medicine internship at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, which was followed by ophthalmology training at LAC+USC/Doheny Eye Institute in Los Angeles – one of the top ophthalmology residencies in the country.
Dr. Richardson has authored a patient-centered book on Cataract, "So, You've Got A Cataract?" and has written many articles about the latest glaucoma treatments on his blog, http://New-Glaucoma-Treatments.com.
Dr. Richardson is among an elite group of glaucoma surgeons in the country performing the highly specialized canaloplasty procedure. In fact, patients have traveled half way around the world to have canaloplasty by Dr. Richardson. He has performed thousands of advanced cataract and Canaloplasty glaucoma procedures with excellent results!
To learn more about Dr. David Richardson, please visit http://david-richardson-md.com.
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We Listen. You'll See!℠
David D. Richardson, M.D.
Patient-Focused Ophthalmologist
San Marino Eye
2020 Huntington Drive
San Marino, CA 91108
Phone: (626) 289-7856
Email: [email protected]
Patient-Focused Websites:
New-Glaucoma-Treatments.com
About-Eyes.com
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Gary Wheeler: I'm Gary Wheeler, I'm 65 years old. I'm the chief executive officer of a not for profit organization that does basically, retirement housing, health care, skilled nursing, related service for older adults, in Southern California and Mexico.
My diagnosis with glaucoma was kind of interesting. I go to an optometrist and really had been doing it for a long long time. And in recent years I began to notice when they do some of the test that especially in my right eye, when they show those little pin points of light, I was missing some of them. That has caused me to go to the ophthalmologist. Then in my first visit, the feeling was that the pressures were already high enough in the right eye that I was probably dealing for sure with glaucoma. Although the left eye wasn't quite there, it had elevated pressure as well. And as a result of that, we began to talk about, "What do you want to do?" And I was asking, "What are really my options?" And I had expressed that, given my kind of work, and having watched number of people both on staff but also number of our residence, and knowing that I'm not really good in putting drops into my eyes, I was really hesitant to get into that type of a routine. Willing to do it, but because of my schedule and board meetings and travels, I had to be honest and say, "I am probably not a good candidate to stick well to a regimen like that. Are there any other options?" And so when I came in for, that session with the ophthalmologist I said, "By any chance, am I candidate for this surgery called canaloplasty?" And he said, "Well given your strong feelings about drops, and given the fact that the laser didn't really work." He says, "I think that you are." And so, together, we made the decision that I would try the canaloplasty procedure and that's what we did. Pressure settled; it became quite normal. Went through the summer and began to realize the left eye was going to experience the same type of increase and so I said, "Well we know about me, I don't like drops, I don't do them well, laser didn't work. Can we go right to canaloplasty on the left eye?" And that's exactly what we did. All in all it was absolutely the right decision, for me. Given who I was, my lifestyle, the way I work, and what I wanted. So it's an excellent result.
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