Dr. Donald C Fletcher M.D.
Ophthalmologist
2340 Clay St # 514 3rd Floor San Francisco CA, 94115About
Dr. Donald Fletcher is an ophthalmologist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Fletcher specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Fletcher can practice medicine as well as surgery. Opthalmologists can perform surgeries because they have their medical degrees along with at least eight years of additional training. Dr. Fletcher can diagnose and treat diseases, perform eye operations and prescribe eye glasses and contacts. Ophthalmologists can also specialize even further in a specific area of eye care.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Case study: communication breakdown causes a nursing personnel union organizing attempt.
- Relative locations of macular scotomas near the PRL: effect on low vision reading.
- Evaluation of the NEI visual functioning questionnaire as an interval measure of visual ability in low vision.
- Editorial: Revised statement on fluoridation.
- An investigation of haemoglobin concentration and of blood loss in stools in adult South African Bantu infested with intestinal Schistosoma mansoni.
- Reduction to normal levels of the high erythrocyte sedimentation-rates in apparently healthy South African Bantu men.
- Surgical excision of subfoveal neovascular membranes in age-related macular degeneration.
- Food preparations used in weaning urban Bantu infants.
- Sonic radiation effects on rats.
- Low vision rehabilitation: basic concepts and terms.
- Low vision rehabilitation: visual acuity measurement in the low vision range.
- Low vision rehabilitation: vision requirements for driving.
- Visual function in patients with choroidal neovascularization resulting from age-related macular degeneration: the importance of looking beyond visual acuity.
- Vision rehabilitation and AMD.
- Contrast sensitivity and visual hallucinations in patients referred to a low vision rehabilitation clinic.
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