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The Importance of “caring and expertise” during Laser Cataract Surgery – a Patient Experience

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We can explain how important it is to have a surgeon who cares about your outcomes, we can also explain to you as a patient what it feels like to have the proper support from office staff during a surgery or procedure that can truly affect your vision such as laser cataract surgery. However, our…

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LASIK: Give yourself a gift this year. Better Vision? You deserve it! Use your FLEX dollars or your HSA before 2015!

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LASIK: A Holiday gift to yourself! It’s that time of year again.  We just passed Halloween but Christmass decorations are already up all over the mall!  We haven’t even made it to Thanksgiving! Maybe you should be more pro-active like those little elves that hang the Christmas lights so early.  Give yourself the gift you…

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“I COULD SEE!” – A LASIK story, from a patient’s eyes

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We can write about what happens at our office any day of the week.  We can explain to patients how LASIK works, how they will feel, the entire process. We can even show them videos and animations thanks to technology.  However, hearing what happens from another party, in their own words, especially one of our…

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Corneal Crosslinking CXL for Keratoconus: in a patient’s own words!

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Nothing speaks more highly when you are deciding whether you should make a decision for a medical procedure than when you hear from a patient that has gone through a similar experience. Please read below.  This is one of our keratoconus patients that was treated by Drs. Slade and Baker at our clinic.  She chose…

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“Even my son’s face looked different”: Laser Cataract Life Altering Surgery with Dr. Stephen Slade & Dr. Rick Baker

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As Dr. Baker summed it all up, “Wow. Some days are better than others.” There are patient stories about surgery and then there are stories that bring you to tears and change your day.  This is one of those.  He brought tears to our own doctors eyes the day after his surgery. He brought tears…

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“I was diagnosed with Keratoconus. I was devastated.” – A Patient’s Success Story about Corneal Crosslinking at Slade & Baker Vision Center

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A patient shares his Keratoconus story all the way from diagnosis to after his crosslinking procedure.  Seeing this process from start to finish through an actual patient’s eyes is so important to share!  We know there are a lot of you out there doing research.  If you or your loved one has been diagnosed with…

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LASER CATARACT SURGERY – A Patient’s Perspective

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We all know that we usually do not provide reviews for restaurants, doctors’ offices, stores, etc. unless we are unhappy or had a bad experience.  So you know when someone takes the time to write about you, it’s because it must’ve been great! Last night we were left an amazing review by an amazing patient. …

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Dr. Stephen Slade to present at the 2014 ASCRS Congress in Boston

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Slade & Baker Vision’s very own Dr. Stephen Slade has been chosen to lecture about various new, cutting edge topics in the Eye World at the 2014 American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Congress that takes place in Boston this weekend – April 25-29! Dr. Slade is asked to speak all over the…

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January is Glaucoma Awareness Month: Glaucoma in “regular people” terms

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January is Glaucoma Awareness Month and in honor of it we want to talk about glaucoma in “regular people” terms.  This way, patients and potential patients can truly understand glaucoma. We’ve all heard the word but many of us, even those of us who have been diagnosed with it or who have a parent with…

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You Can Change the Color of Your Eyes? Some 411 on Iris Implants…

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Have you ever wondered, “why is it that I didn’t get mom’s blue eyes and my brother did?” or, “I think I would look way better with green eyes?” Don’t feel bad, don’t be embarrassed.  We all have.  In fact, it’s been proven that most people wish they could change a genetic trait of theirs…

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