IF I HAD GLAUCOMA

David L. Epstein, M.D.

Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Medical Center, USA

I have been practicing glaucoma now for almost a quarter century!  With such a long-term follow-up of my patients, I feel progressively more humbled about how little true knowledge I actually have.  I have great respect for the practical glaucoma management wisdom of practitioners and certainly other speakers on this program are now much more knowledgeable about glaucoma than I.  I therefore thought that the only positive contribution I might be able to make to this excellent program would be to discuss my expectations for the present and future “if I myself had glaucoma”.