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Retina Specialists
of Alabama Patient Information
What to Expect at Your Visit
Welcome to Retina
Specialists of Alabama, LLC. Our physicians and staff
are here to serve you and are honored to be chosen for the care
of your most precious sense organ, the eye. Your initial examination
and testing
will be comprehensive. Since we endeavor to complete all tests
and to make treatment recommendations at the time of your examination,
please allow several hours for your visit.
Your pupils
will be dilated in order to perform a complete examination. Pupillary
dilation will make your eyes sensitive to bright light when you
leave our office. It is best to plan for someone to drive
you from our office. The pupillary dilation will also
prevent you from being able to focus, and reading may be difficult
for you for the remainder of the day. You may wish to take this
into consideration in your work or school schedule. These
inconveniences are temporary and necessary for adequate retinal
examination.
Our office staff
will ask you many questions which will enable our physicians to
have a complete picture of your health. You can help us by bringing
all prescription medications, or a list of each medication and dosage
with you to the office.
We will respect
your personal physician preference. However, you may see several
members of our physician team during your evaluation and course
of treatment. Because optimal treatment in the critical care
of retinal disease often remains a matter of judgment, availability
of different physicians within our practice
gives you the opportunity of having the recommendations of more
than one physician. Also, you may be offered the services
of another RSA physician to expedite your care when your preferred
physician is not available or has been delayed. It is always
your choice whether or not you wish to take advantage of these options.
If you schedule
surgery you will be given specific and individual instructions about
your case. You may refer to our postoperative care instructions
(post-op Laser or post-op
Surgery) for general information about recovery from surgery.
Surgical candidates traveling from a distance may make arrangements
to tentatively schedule surgery during the same visit as the initial
consultation or may receive consultation advice and return at a
later date for surgery. Patients coming to RSA from out of the country
may coordinate arrangements through our international patient services
coordinator at the numbers or E-mail listed below. Subsequent
follow-up care can be coordinated with your local eye doctor, if
desired. Arrangements for postoperative follow-up care with your
local doctor should be made prior to surgery.
Be assured that
everything will be done to complete your examination as promptly
as possible. We will devote to you as much time as necessary
to help you with your individual problem. We encourage your
questions and invite a family member to accompany you to the exam
room for your visit with the doctor
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