Ophthalmology (EYES) with Dr. Reid Wainess
75% of adult Americans have wonky vision of some kind, your host included. Longtime pal and real-life eye surgeon, Dr. Reid Wainess answers all the questions that you never bring up during appointments. He and Alie chat about how eyes are just little cameras in your skull, glasses vs. contacts, Lasik, why we cry, some boggling ER stories, how marijuana effects eyeballs, floaters, cataracts, eye color, dogs in goggles and more. Also: what happens if you choke under pressure and pick the wrong options in an eye exam? HOW SCREWED ARE YOU?
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If you're in LA and and want Dr. Wainess to be your eye doc: 1-800-898-2020
Some links which you may find useful:
How many people have shit vision?
Tyndall affect: aka why your eyes change colors
Does weed make you look like a mugshot?
Aaron Williams-Mele sees his first Virginia sunset
“Colorblindness” aka Color Vision Deficiency
The wonderfully garden-variety happy people who are prosthetic eye patients
The business of being an ocularist
Billy the Exterminator: cool dude, but spreads guano and misinformation
Topography of Tears: very cool photos
Topography of Tears artist, Rose Lynn Fisher
Nail gun survival stories aka SERIOUSLY WTF
A presidential gaze into the sun
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