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QUESTION:
Hi Dr. Richardson, I know of you through your contributions to FitEyes. I don’t comment on the list very often, but hugely appreciate your contributions! I am wondering if you do phone consultations at all. I understand you couldn’t give advice for an eye you’ve never met, so my questions would be more general. I am heading into cataract surgery on a very challenged eye and need some help. Alternatively, is there any surgeon you can recommend in the San Francisco Bay area (I’m in Napa, but can get to SF, etc.) for surgery on a severely myopic/glaucoma/lamellar hole/lattice degeneration/god knows what else eye? If you don’t consult like this or have a recommendation, that is ok, just thought I would ask. I still really appreciate your contributions and wish I lived closer to your practice! Kathy Mosher
ANSWER:
Dear ******,
Thank you for your kind words. I’ve enjoyed participating on FitEyes and have found the discussions to be quite interesting.
I do not generally offer telephone consultations as the in-person exam is critical in my determination of the most appropriate treatment plan. However, as I do see a fair number of patients who travel significant distances to see me, I have in the past offered to review records in order to decrease the risk that someone might travel out to see me only to discover that s/he is not, in fact, a candidate for Canaloplasty.
As reviewing other doctors’ records is a time-consuming (and, I’ve discovered, often frustrating) process I do charge a fee of $200 which is credited against the initial in-person consultation fee if or when such a consultation is performed. Once I’ve reviewed your prior records I would then be able to communicate my findings to you by either email or phone. As you have already mentioned, without an examination I cannot give medical advice, only my limited impression of options that might be reasonable to consider based on what other doctors have documented.
Warm regards,
David Richardson, MD
Patient-Focused Ophthalmologist
San Marino Eye
2020 Huntington Drive
San Marino, CA 91108
626.289.7856
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Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:29 PM
Posted in: Canaloplasty Surgeons
