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Robert A. Goldberg, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 2007;125(12):1708-1709.

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This month the Archives of Ophthalmology and the November/December issue of the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery are paired theme issues on orbit, eyelid, and lacrimal surgery. The 2 theme issues highlight the value of multidisciplinary collaboration. Fellowships in ophthalmic plastic surgery now routinely include periorbital and facial surgery, and facial plastic fellowships incorporate oculoplastic procedures, so that the opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration have never been more important and promising. In fact, it was not so long ago that the specialties were not separated at all. I trained too late to ever attend a national meeting of the Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology (the 2 academies separated in 1978) but I did attend the Pacific Coast Society of Otolaryngology and Ophthalmology, and I was impressed with how much I could learn by seeing clinical problems through the eyes of a different specialty. Great advancements (not to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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