Dr. Rachel Bishop
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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But it really points to the need to have eye specialists able to manage these conditions.
Yeah.
So you could think of diabetes, really, it affects blood vessels all over the body.
And what's going on in the eye, we can presume is happening in other areas.
So it can steal vision through a number of ways, swelling in the retina, bleeding in the retina.
Some of the newer treatments that have been developed, even in this last generation, do a good job of helping control the swelling and helping control the abnormal blood vessels that grow when diabetes has gotten out of control.
I think that's the answer for almost every medical condition.
Control the root cause if you can.
Oh, I think most people don't know.
And I would say a lot of us in medicine, we give a name to something.
It doesn't mean we really know it well, but we certainly keep researching.
Glaucoma is important because people lose vision without knowing it's happening because it affects the outer vision area, the periphery first.
One of the reasons we recommend that people have eye exams, certainly at the age of 40 if they've never had one, is because we can find these conditions.
About half of people with glaucoma wouldn't even know they have it.
And then we might discover it late in the course when they've already lost a lot of vision.
That's one of the ways of checking pressure.
We have some other ways too.
Well, you can treat it.
And not only that, you can treat it very well.
We can prevent vision loss from glaucoma in most patients, as with most eye diseases.
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