Darrell E. White

Wow! That was quick. Another year has come and gone, the pages of the calendar flying by like one of those old cartoon flip chart things.How did 2023 treat you and yours? I am going to go with my standard answer to that question: I am still the second luckiest person any of you will ever meet! Who is the luckiest person? I have no idea, but all but one of those people saying that has to be wrong.

There has certainly been a whole bunch of new stuff around the dry eye disease ranch, hasn’t there?For a disease state we have known about for decades, it is almost as if we are rediscovering it all over again. After literally decades without any change in how we think about dry eye disease (DED), let alone how we treat it, now we have new data, ideas and real stuff arriving weekly.

It’s a conundrum. Your patient has classic evaporative dry eye disease.

Have you ever seen Jeff Dunham, the ventriloquist, perform?My daughter Megan introduced me to him about 15 years ago. Megan can recite any stand-up routine after hearing it once. Pretty handy to have her at the dinner table when you get one of those awkward silent stretches. (That is, unless one of her routines was the cause of that silence, but I digress.) Anyway, Dunham has multiple characters

NEW YORK — In this Healio Video Perspective from OSN New York, Darrell E. White, MD, discusses why ophthalmologists should look forward to attending the OSN New York and OSN New York Retina meetings.

Ocular Surgery News | Sigh. I really thought we would have some new stuff to chat about now that it is September 2023. I mean, you know, besides Brent Saunders.It is once again time for us to look at the state of anti-inflammatory treatment in the dry eye disease (DED) world. This category is simultaneously the cornerstone of both DED treatment and the commercial world that surrounds us and our DED patients. It has

It’s summer on the North Coast of America. Here I sits once again, accompanied by my Aussies Sasha and Bohdi, thinking.Whenever someone asked me what I would do if the medicine thing didn’t work out, I always gave the same answer: I’d be a writer. As a young man, I was a voracious reader, pretty much any and all genres. I read enough to realize that it would be highly likely

Two down, one to go.

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — In this Healio Video Perspective from Kiawah Eye, Darrell E. White, MD, discusses why he switched to exclusively performing surface-only laser refractive surgery, which does not require making a flap.

Blogs | | No need for an alarm clock on Feb. 15, at least in my house. My phone started blowing up around 0600 with the news: The prodigal son is back. Brent Saunders has returned to run Bausch + Lomb.