The sociological imagination is a concept used by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills to describe the ability to âthink yourself away from the familiar routines of everyday lifeâ and look at them from an entirely new perspective.
Meet Edward E. Manche, MD, Director of Cornea and Refractive Surgery, Professor of Ophthalmology. Edward E. Manche, MD, is the Director of Cornea and Refractive Surgery at the Stanford Eye Laser Center and Professor of Ophthalmology in the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a world renowned expert in laser and surgical techniques for vision correction, and has personally performed over 45,000 laser vision correction procedures.
Many retinal diseases require laser photocoagulation treatment as a part of vitrectomy surgery. The laser is often used to treat vitreous hemorrhage (suspended blood in the vitreous gel) or abnormal blood vessels in diabetic retinopathy as well as seal tears in the retina that can lead to retinal detachment.