Although his official position is security/customer service with Prisma Health in Greenville, Harold Moore spends seven to eight hours every day in front of a computer screen summarizing reports, creating spreadsheets and bar graphs for internal use and submitting daily work orders. And every day he wonders when he is going to need new glasses. … Read more
Mt. Pleasant Eye Surgeons has been serving the community since 2015. Nicole Legare, M.D., acquired the practice in 2022. “What drew me to Mt. Pleasant Eye Surgeons was that it was a privately owned solo practice,” Dr. Legare explained. “Prior, I was at an academic center where a number of patients had to be seen … Read more
It’s no secret that technology is racing ahead of us, with new innovations seemingly emerging daily. Applications for the health care industry are particularly exciting. Whether improving early diagnoses, reducing the risk of infection, permitting more precise surgeries or decreasing hospital stays and recovery times, these new innovations benefit the patients using them and the … Read more
It’s estimated that at least 2.2 billion people around the world suffer from some type of vision impairment. This issue affects people of all ages, although it is much more common in people over the age of 50. But vision impairment doesn’t have to be entirely debilitating. With help from an occupational therapist, people with … Read more
It was through a routine eye exam that Andy Bimonte, media consultant for Mount Pleasant Magazine, learned the reason for the sudden painless but rather blurry vision in his left eye. The doctors at Retina Consultants of Charleston diagnosed Bimonte with central retinal vein occlusion and began monthly treatments of eye injections that have not … Read more
Cataracts are an inevitable phenomenon which just about everyone eventually will develop. If you are experiencing blurry or cloudy vision or noticeably increased glare, the writing is on the wall – if only you could see it – that you may have them. “Kind of like wrinkles on your skin, everyone gets cataracts,” explained Dr. […]