patients are leaving a significant amount of
happiness on the table."
4. Set realistic expectations
Make sure patients understand that eyes need
time to heal after surgery, suggests Dr.
Slonim. "They might see perfectly immediate-
ly, but shouldn't feel discouraged if that does-
n't happen," he says. "Some patients get upset
because they think the surgery didn't go well."
Dr. Slonim would know, because he was a
disgruntled patient. As he sat in post-op on
the morning of his own cataract surgery, dis-
tant images appeared blurry, but his name on
his ID wristband was perfectly clear. He
thought he was myopic, that he had received
the wrong lens implant power. His vision acu-
ity remained less than optimal into the after-
noon and he grew frustrated with the sur-
geon, who he felt had not delivered on his as-
advertised outcome: "off-the-table 20/20."
"Patients who see perfectly immediately
after surgery are ahead of the game," says Dr.
Slonim.
Surgeons who operate at Ms. Cappella's
center make sure patients know from the
moment they schedule their procedures that
their vision could be blurry for a few days
post-op. The surgeons also reinforce that
point to the patients and their loved ones on
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