In general, if visual field examination is uncomfortable, they're doing it wrong.
A Goldman perimetry analyzer is basically a bowl with fixed or moving projected lights. You have one eye covered, but your chin in the cup, and push the button whenever you see the lights. It's the most common method, and the one used by Scott Sylvia, the optometrist I go to.(2038 Mass Ave in Cambridge, co-located with General Optical).
Most new eye docs (of whatever stripe) will mention laser surgery at least once, because it's popular, and a money maker. Scott mentioned it to me once, I told him I wasn't interested, and he hasn't mentioned it again, which has been my experience with most eye docs. (OTOH, I'm also a doc myself, which discourages pushy behaviour on the part of other docs :-)
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Date: 2009-07-22 05:26 pm (UTC)A Goldman perimetry analyzer is basically a bowl with fixed or moving projected lights. You have one eye covered, but your chin in the cup, and push the button whenever you see the lights. It's the most common method, and the one used by Scott Sylvia, the optometrist I go to.(2038 Mass Ave in Cambridge, co-located with General Optical).
Most new eye docs (of whatever stripe) will mention laser surgery at least once, because it's popular, and a money maker. Scott mentioned it to me once, I told him I wasn't interested, and he hasn't mentioned it again, which has been my experience with most eye docs. (OTOH, I'm also a doc myself, which discourages pushy behaviour on the part of other docs :-)