Director's Message
            As doctors, our commitment is to follow the evolutions of science in our area and dispose it for the benefit of our patients. Considering vision as the central purpose in our work, it is possible to say the ophthalmology was the area which was most influenced by the advances and break-troughs in technology this past decade. Few processes in the human body are as complex as vision. More than the formation of image in the retina, vision involves complex transmission systems, association and interpretation of the electric impulses in the brain.
             New lasers and medication sided with new cirurgical techniques have aided those with illness and also those with conditions considered normal as the correction of refractive errors or even aging, such as prebyopia, bringing comfort. These advances include the involvement between extreme areas such as Visual Learning Dyslexia (which are of great importance to students) to the utilization of special lenses in cataract surgery improving night visions up to 53% or even the correction of presbiopia and keratocone.
             It’s also important to highlight that medical activity is essentially personal and that each technique or medication must be analyzed based on the necessity or personal characteristic of each patient.
             The relationship between doctors and patients has been modified by the opportunities of communication brought by the internet. A patient better informed also participates more actively in his treatment and in the multiple choices of diagnostics offered. It’s in an ambient of renovation and innovation greedy for quality information that HOLHOS invests in a new website and in new tools for medical education.
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