Dr. Dagny Zhu, MD | LASIK & Cataract

Que guapa te ves! (How pretty you are/look!) Said my sweet 73 yo cataract patient with dense, hand-motionvision (thats all she could see) cataracts right after she sat up from the operating bed at the end of the case (swipe to see the laser fragmenting her rock-hard brown cataract!) 1 trip to...

My mom shared this tribute to Grandpa on WeChat for Fathers Day. My heart (via Google translate):Dad, today is Fathers Day, and it is also the twenty-third day that you went to heaven. For the first time without a fathers day, the heart is like a knife wringing tears. Daddy, I miss you so much!At...

Not all LASIK technology is the same! If the price offered seems too good to be true (ahemGroupon?), it probably is. Cutting corners on technology and the surgeon who can best drive it is simply not worth your eyesight When I bought my practice, I upgraded from a microkeratome to the Zeimer femto...

THANK YOU @aecosurgery Prague for the incredibly warm welcome and invitation to speak amongst the worlds top cataract and refractive surgeons at my first AECOS Europe Symposiumas well as my first ever visit to the beautiful Czech Republic!!!I was honored to present a case study on determining ref...

After a long battle, my sweet sweet (grandpa), you are finally free Mom asked me to write a few words for her to deliver on my behalf at your funeral service, but sadly there wasnt enough time to include it. Ive decided to share it here with you today .#omfs #oralsurgery #medicine #doctor #grand...

Theres TV recordingand then theres TV recording in SPANISH!! (how do I sound? )This week, I had the opportunity to record a TV interview about my practice and our eyecare services at @univision the largest provider of Spanish-language content in the United States!People (and patients) are always...

Youve worked hard Its time to play hard W I O G I V E A W A Y The Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium is right around the corner and we cannot wait to see everybody inAugust 22-25in beautiful Carlsbad, California! The WIO annual symposium is like no other meeting youve ever been to before. ...

How many different surgeries did you catch? Ophthalmology is indeed a subspecialty of medicine.As a cornea, cataract, and refractive surgeon, I operate 4 days a week and have the immense privilege of helping patients go from blind to 20/20, usually in 20 minutes or less every case.It can sometim...

Thanks for the clarity, #harrisonbutker ! In case you havent heard, Harrison Butker, the kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, recently told a room full of graduating college women that they had been told diabolical lies about a womans role and that some of you may go on to lead successful careers i...

That tremor For real though, weve all been there! While the learning curve may be steep, stepping outside our comfort zones to keep up with the latest technologies and expand our skillsets help us to better serve our patients throughout this lifelong journey of learning called .This is a surgical...

Where did the time go?! Happy Mothers Day to all my fellow Bruhsout there! #motherhood #toddler #toddlerlife #toddlermom #funnyparents #parenting #mothersday

BOOM. Biggest LASIK myth busted.Studies show LASIK surgeons are significantly more likely to get LASIK on themselves than the general population (PMID26603390).Thats because we are intimately familiar with the benefits of LASIK and have the first-hand privilege of seeing our patients lives change...