Written by Dr. Shirish Patel from nine years of consulting-room conversations in Goregaon West. Read them before your appointment, or after it, and bring your questions.
Each guide is written in plain language and dated. Where costs are mentioned they are Mumbai-wide ranges, not a price list. Nothing here replaces an examination, but all of it should help you ask better questions.
The three questions every cataract patient asks: what it costs, which lens, and what recovery looks like.
Why two honest quotes can differ by a lakh, what insurance pays and the sub-limit trap, and the questions to ask before you pay.
Read the guide → Cataract · 9 minThe lens families explained, who should avoid a multifocal, the astigmatism question nobody asks, and what Dr. Patel recommends most days.
Read the guide → Cataract · 9 minHead bath, cooking, local trains, driving and screens. What is normal, what is not, and the symptoms that mean call today.
Read the guide →What spectacle removal costs, and how the cornea, not the advertising, decides the procedure.
Ranges for LASIK, Femto, Contoura, SMILE, PRK and ICL, what a fair quote must include, and the 7.5 dioptre insurance rule.
Read the guide → LASIK · 10 minHow each works, recovery and dry eye compared, what the tests look for, who gets turned down, and the honest risks.
Read the guide →The growth on the white of the eye that Mumbai's sun, dust and wind produce in large numbers.