Why Some Cataract Patients Choose to Stay Nearsighted

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[00:00:00]If you've been right-handed your whole life or left-handed and at 70 we say, "Hey, would you like to switch to the other side?" You can do it, but it's just a choice you have to really think through. We do have a lot of patients who have taken their glasses off to read their whole life. That's a habit that's formed. [music] If we're resetting the camera due target distance vision for patients, can find it very disorienting to now have to put their glasses on to see up close. I do have a fair amount of patients, I would say probably 10% of my practice, where I will leave someone near-sided because we have the conversation about it and they are comfortable with near vision and that's an okay thing to choose.