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Sub-specialists speak

Posted by: West Georgia Eye Care Center in Frontpage Article on March 4, 2016

West Georgia Eye Care Center was founded by specialists. In 1951, our inaugural year, one elite medical specialty was the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat (EENT). That is how this blogger had her own tonsils removed by Dr. Floyd Jarrell, and her first contact lenses fit by his… Read More

The case of the curious Dr. Curran: how an ophthalmologists’s ability to see connections saved a life

Posted by: West Georgia Eye Care Center in Frontpage Article on February 19, 2016

Award-winning, bestselling novelist Chaim Potok has written that an artist must be curious, always asking questions of his environment: “he must somehow learn to see during the blinks, he must see where no one else can see, he must see the connections, the betweennesses in the world.” ** A good physician, like a good artist,… Read More

Love and iLASIK?!

Posted by: West Georgia Eye Care Center in Frontpage Article on February 10, 2016

Roses are red, violets are blue, iLASIK is sweet and so are you! Consider iLASIK as a gift that will remind your sweetheart every day of your love and devotion. Vintage valentine cards (like those below) often used eye-themed messages to express romantic notions, and newly found freedom from glasses and contact lenses through iLASIK… Read More

30 Years After the Challenger

Posted by: West Georgia Eye Care Center in Frontpage Article on January 29, 2016

I know it is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It’s all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It’s all part of taking a chance and exploring man’s horizons. The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the… Read More

Mon’ Ami, Mono Vision

Posted by: West Georgia Eye Care Center in Frontpage Article on January 22, 2016

According to the last U.S. census, 1 in 4 Americans are between the ages of 45 and 65. What do they all have in common? Age-related eye changes.  Billions of pairs of reading glasses are sold each year to allow patients to regain the focus they’ve lost in the aging eye change called presbyopia. Of… Read More

Of goals and glasses

Posted by: West Georgia Eye Care Center in Frontpage Article on January 15, 2016

January is a month for goal-setting. If you’re on the lookout for a worthwhile pursuit, why not consider freedom from glasses and contact lenses in 2016? Last week, we introduced you to a patient who met that goal with iLASIK. But did you know that, for many patients, advanced cataract surgery can accomplish that goal, too? Linda… Read More

Not seen before

Posted by: West Georgia Eye Care Center in Frontpage Article on January 8, 2016

When you feel good, you look good. It radiates from inside.  -Mary Lawson, iLASIK patient           Happy New Year from West Georgia Eye Care Center! According to most dictionary definitions, the word “new” can be used to describe things not seen before.  New flares and shades of color in a sunset. Shades you’ve… Read More