Reddit mentions: The best ophthalmology books

My favorites in no particular order:

Realityland - Goes into the history of Walt Disney World, with a heavy focus on the Magic Kingdom and Epcot. It covers MGM and the Animal Kingdom as well, but you can tell the author has a real ax to grind with Michael Eisner, and so the second half of the book comes off him being bitter about change. Regardless, it's worth a read and the front half on the first phase and Epcot are really interesting.

Disney War - Possibly my favorite Disney book. It covers the Michael Eisner era of the company, from him and Wells joining in the 80s to Bob Iger taking over. This book covers all of the aspects of the company, not just the parks, and is very inside baseball. I love it because it covers a lot of the projects and decisions the company makes from a business perspective rather than from a storytelling/magic/enjoyment level.

Building a Company - This is Bob Thomas' biography for Roy O Disney. I'm a fan of this one because it offers an alternate perspective on the early years, by focusing on Roy instead of Walt. Similar to Disney War, it covers a lot of the same history that you'd get out of a Walt biography, but with more of a lean on the business element.

In Service to the Mouse - The memoirs of Jack Lindquist. It's a fun easy read full of random anecdotes and memories from his time at the Disney company, all the way up to him being made president of Disneyland.

Here's a question: are you actually in the US?

I work for a surgeon in Zurich (currently redoing the English-language website) that was developing CXL back in the day (Farhad Hafezi), and continues to research what's going on at the molecular level in keratoconic corneas, and how to improve CXL (his research group showed the importance of oxygen availability in the reaction, and why that limits how fast CXL can be performed, for example) https://www.elza-institute.com/corneal-cross-linking-cxl/ - he also co-wrote the textbook! https://www.amazon.com/Corneal-Cross-Linking-Farhad-Hafezi-MD/dp/1630912107

I have thin corneas, so I'm absolutely delighted I work for the ELZA Institute and can have them monitored regularly and easily. :)

If you are in the US, on the West Coast, the other author of the textbook is J. Bradley Randleman (https://eye.keckmedicine.org/doctors/j-bradley-randleman/) and he's wonderful at it too.

Practically, though, there are many good cornea specialists out there (and everyone's right - you need a cornea specialist) whatever country you are in. What's most important is getting treated. IMHO, you need to have a surgeon that's offering epi-off CXL. Epi-on is getting better, but it's not there yet. You want CXL to stop your KC progressing; why risk it? And Epi-on risks that far more than epi-off.


One thing my boss can do that is above and beyond regular CXL in keratoconus is also perform a custom Trans-PRK laser ablation - you'd be very unlikely to be 20/20 afterwards like most laser refractive procedures, but you would have an easier time of it with sclerals etc. Hafezi did a lot of the development with one of the laser manufacturers, Schwind, to get their excimer algorithms right in post-CXL corneas, so if anyone knows how to do that best, it's him.

This is a great resource: https://www.amazon.com/Singular-View-Art-Seeing-One/dp/0961463929

Has a bunch of illustrations and ways to manage living with monocular vision.

For those interested in strabismus: http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Strabismus-Surgery-Case-Based-Approach/dp/1451116608

i worked with the authors on that book. it's intended for doctors not patients but surely its packed full of extremely relevant information.

Surgery of the Eyelid, Lacrimal System, and Orbit (Ophthalmology Monograph Series)

Un bel po' di anni fa quando ero giovane ed ingenuo avevo comprato [questo libro] (https://www.amazon.it/dp/887507920X/ref=asc_df_887507920X45645037/?tag=googshopit-21&creative=23390&creativeASIN=887507920X&linkCode=df0&hvdev=m&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=) credendo che funzionasse. Mi sono reso conto presto fortunatamente della totale inefficacia del metodo ed effettivamente sarebbe bastato vedere che l'autore non è laureato in medicina e tantomeno specializzato in oculistica.