The online statement from the practice of the retina doctor in question here:
https://www.illinoisretina.com/providers/timothy-flood-md-facs/
"Taking care of patients who have retinal problems and helping them to relieve their anxiety over the health of their eyes is very rewarding. Research is also important to me. To be able to take the knowledge you have gained through a clinical trial and change the way physicians treat patients is very exciting. Here at Illinois Retina we're helping people, having fun doing it and creating new knowledge at the same time."
Question from Your Editor:
Thank you, Dr. Timothy Flood! Was it fun to tell me that my retinal condition was "because I was on Prolia" (a drug for osteoporosis) rather than because I had osteoporosis (which I later learned was the truth).
Was it fun to purvey this misinformation with the predictable result that I would believe that this drug for osteoporosis threatened my eyesight, with the further predictable result that my efforts to get off of it, in order to save my eyes, would leave me with multiple vertebral fractures and in pain, perhaps for the rest of my life, unable to travel, drive a car, or even visit with friends and family without pain? Fun?
I still cannot understand why this doctor could not have told me that my retinal condition was related to the osteoporosis itself, and not to the medication (Prolia) I needed to keep my bones from breaking!
I sincerely hope this "creates new knowledge" for all eye doctors, so that their patients will not risk having their active lives so painfully cut off as I have!
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