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Aug 2025
57m 55s

A Journey Through Vision Loss

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
About this episode

Drs. Prithvi Sankar and Sriram Balasubramanian discuss a personal journey through vision loss, from both the ophthalmologist and patient perspective. Host Dr. Ben Young invites these two friends to share their lessons of grief, denial, and ultimate acceptance of a difficult diagnosis—in this case, retinitis pigmentosa—and what physicians can do to help their patients through these life-changing events.

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