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Eye to Eye Ophthalmology: Ophthalmology under the sea

Eye to Eye: An Ophthalmology Podcast from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists

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The Importance of Being a Good Leader

I was relatively clinically independent when I first came into Opto-Opto-Wongi's Nest1. Now, that may just have been me at the peak of the Dunning-Kruger curve. The difference with the submarine service is that you don't transmit. If we transmit to ask questions or seek clinical guidance from above, then the enemy could find us. That gives you your position away. Once you're dived, you're gone. And whatever the medical problem is, you're probably going to have to sort it out by yourself unless you've had a discussion with the captain about whether or not the casualty situation is so bad that you might have to abandon the

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