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Glaucoma is Fun?
SURVEY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
VOLUME 51 NUMBER 3 MAY–JUNE 2006
TIME OPH MICHAEL MARMOR, EDITOR
Glaucoma is Fun? In the war on glaucoma there’s never a truce As the drug manufacturers race to produce The next generation of new prostaglandin Which doctors, as usual, quickly abandon
We recently found out that if you smoke ‘‘pot,’’ Sometimes the eye pressure goes down quite a lot And folks who would otherwise opt for abstention Might start smoking ‘‘pot’’ for glaucoma prevention.
If, in one of these newest glaucoma creations, The Rx arrives with a few complications, Complications the FDA had not foreseen, Then, presto, another new drug leaves the scene.
Alcohol, which is legal, can be hypotensive And, compared to some drugs, it is much less expensive But, by most ophthalmologists, it’s not condoned For, in curative doses, most folks end up ‘‘stoned.’’
So the war on glaucoma goes on without pause But victory’s not within grasp yet because There remains one dilemma for medical science: It’s the patient—the problem is still non-compliance.
But as long as the treatment is not overdone For the patient, glaucoma could be lots of fun.
—Ben Milder St. Louis, Missouri, USA
That, too, can be solved (with a few side effects): Therapeutic devices that need no Rx, Alternative treatments which, it seems to me, Should take care of compliance, if not IOP.
290 .
0039-6257/06/$--see front matter doi:10.1016/j.survophthal.2006.02.002
VOLUME 51 NUMBER 3 MAY–JUNE 2006
TIME OPH MICHAEL MARMOR, EDITOR
Glaucoma is Fun? In the war on glaucoma there’s never a truce As the drug manufacturers race to produce The next generation of new prostaglandin Which doctors, as usual, quickly abandon
We recently found out that if you smoke ‘‘pot,’’ Sometimes the eye pressure goes down quite a lot And folks who would otherwise opt for abstention Might start smoking ‘‘pot’’ for glaucoma prevention.
If, in one of these newest glaucoma creations, The Rx arrives with a few complications, Complications the FDA had not foreseen, Then, presto, another new drug leaves the scene.
Alcohol, which is legal, can be hypotensive And, compared to some drugs, it is much less expensive But, by most ophthalmologists, it’s not condoned For, in curative doses, most folks end up ‘‘stoned.’’
So the war on glaucoma goes on without pause But victory’s not within grasp yet because There remains one dilemma for medical science: It’s the patient—the problem is still non-compliance.
But as long as the treatment is not overdone For the patient, glaucoma could be lots of fun.
—Ben Milder St. Louis, Missouri, USA
That, too, can be solved (with a few side effects): Therapeutic devices that need no Rx, Alternative treatments which, it seems to me, Should take care of compliance, if not IOP.
290 .
0039-6257/06/$--see front matter doi:10.1016/j.survophthal.2006.02.002