No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be,Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt, easy tool,Deferential, glad be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous;Full high sentence, but bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—Almost, at Fool.—T. S. Eliot, from “The Love Song J. Alfred Prufrock”I accepted new calling, course...

343 The emergence of endothelial keratoplasty (EK) represents the beginning of a new era in the treatment of corneal endothelial disorders which continues to evolve. Fifteen years ago we were performing penetrating keratoplasty for Fuchs’ dystrophy and bullous keratopathy but nowadays we are performing selective replacement of the diseased endothelial layer. In recent years two techniques of EK...

I grew up in Africa, the younger of two sons of Indian parents who taught college physics. Around the time that my brother’s precocious ability with numbers was revealing itself, I discovered that I had no head for math — or for any other subject in the school curriculum. Middle-class Indian parents worshipped the professions, and only three existed for them: medicine, engineering, and law. Whe...