This could be the time to confess something I have not yet dared to admit… here goes: I don’t like jazz.
Or, at least, I didn’t think I liked jazz……
Tag: Dan Reinstein
The Three Phases Of Truth
According to the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (and Professor Dan Reinstein founder of the London Vision Clinic) truth passes through three phases:
-First it is ridiculed….
Binning The Alice Band Of Glasses
Binning The Alice Band Of Glasses Returning to the scenario of sitting next to someone famous in the waiting room of the London Vision Clinic…. Should one put down one’s reading matter and offer to make them a cup of tea? Or would that appear too ingratiating for comfort? I would have to contend that, in this situation, there can be no fixed agenda… it all depends on… well every thing from pre-op nerves to general feelings of sociability or…
Media Friendly Dr. Dan … Wicked!
Dr Dan is, what we call in the business, “Media Friendly”. In other words, he is a great communicator – one who can spontaneously deliver his message in exactly the right tone whether his audience comprises top ophthalmic surgeons at a world congress or avant-garde music lovers tuning in to BBC Radio6 ……
PRESBYOND® Laser Blended Vision Goes Global
PRESBYOND® Laser Blended Vision Goes Global Now here’s the biggest headline: “PRESBYOND® Laser Blended Vision Goes Global”. And behind it the news that Dr Dan’s invention was introduced at the ESCRS in Barcelona and has subsequently been fully launched at the ophthalmology congress in San Francisco. The London Vision Clinic pioneered the PRESBYOND® Laser Blended Vision technique which has led to so many of us ‘patients-of-a-certain-age’ happily binning our reading glasses. Most of us spec-free patients give little consideration to…
Deeper Tests For Intra-Ocular Lenses
Deeper Tests For Intra-Ocular Lenses But I am not covering the ESCRS for a tabloid newspaper – I am writing it up for the London Vision Clinic’s blog. And here is a whisper of news: Dr Dan thinks he has detected a slight shift in the mood of this year’s congress. After ten years of the spotlight falling on intra-ocular multi-focal lenses he has sensed that they might be falling slightly out of favour in some quarters. It appears that…
Shrinking Arms Or Presbyopia?
Shrinking Arms Or Presbyopia? If you are over forty and finding that your arms are shrinking, you might be tempted to competitively compare your deteriorating eyesight with that of your peers. Are they also finding it a bit of a struggle to read the newspapers (irrespective of the gloomy recession doomed content), extending their arms further and further away and searching out the best lit area of the room? After a quick survey of friends, colleagues and relatives you might…
Chocolate Or Valium
Chocolate Or Valium? Chocolate is something I normally try to avoid. Any rare craving for the stuff is quelled by nibbling a square of bitter dark 60 or 70%. That would happily satisfy the urge until the next time…. Unless it happens to be surgery day at the London Vision Clinic … then it’s like open day at Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory… and it’s all on “prescription”. Dr Dan and the LVC team find the combination of comforting chocolate (full…
The Biased Blogger
The Biased Blogger Let me introduce myself as an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, writer and former patient who is now – proudly – the LVC’s fly on the wall blogger. ‘Aa-haa’, I hear the cynics among you mutter. ‘She’ll be employed by the LVC. Her views on Laser Eye Surgery are hardly likely to be impartial’. Yes, you’re probably right. Obviously I only have a lay person’s knowledge of things ophthalmological but – after more than twenty years of journalistic experience…
The Mentor’s Mentor
The Mentor’s Mentor A “mentor” according to dictionary.com is a “wise and trusted counsellor or teacher” and “an influential senior sponsor or supporter”. One can easily understand how Dr Dan Reinstein would tick the right “mentor” boxes for young up-and-coming ophthalmologists and would-be eye surgeons. He’s brilliant, charismatic, driven, hard working, successful and amazingly talented. In turn, I imagine that he would lend his support to anyone with a special flare starting out on a career in eye health. To…
