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John Orchard @drjohnorchard.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Altmetric score of the book is climbing and we’ve received first news reference in this article theconversation.com/australias-r... with some more author photos below

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

🏏🏏🏏 Proud to be an author in this fantastic book

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Foresight is already helping me plan laser vision correction for irregular corneas. It helps optimise the treatment profile, and to make sure that the treatment is leaving enough residual corneal tissue.

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Benita Olivier @benitaolivier.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

This is a great example of interdisciplinarity! Thirty-nine chapters and 422 pages of knowledge and expertise from authors across the globe. This is our gift to cricket science and medicine. Let's keep our cricketers healthy and thriving!

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John Orchard @drjohnorchard.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Our new book recently published covering injuries, lumbar stress fractures and all other Sports Science Sports Medicine in our great sport of Cricket link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Cricket Sports Medicine

Cricket Sports Medicine is a guide for healthcare professionals on areas including injury prevention, rehabilitation to optimise cricketers of all levels.

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

My talk was on laser vision correction for irregular corneas (using excimer laser). There are some corneal dystrophies that can be treated with excimer laser. Bietti primarily involves the retina (& this causes the vision loss) although the cornea may also be involved with crystalline deposits. 1/

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

First talk done in Darwin. I spoke at the Schwind Laser User Meeting on one of my favourite subjects: customising laser vision correction for unusual eyes. Something new for this year is Foresight software, which allows us to simulate outcomes with different laser treatment plans. #lasereyesurgery

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The original post said “This poor car is just trying to live its best life in peace, until it dies of natural causes (spontaneous combustion).”

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

This poor car is just trying to live its best life in peace.

Bumper sticker says:

Heart emoji EV
NOT ELON

Rear view of white Tesla model 3 with a “heart emoji EV not Elon” bumper sticker

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Improvement in short-sightedness (myopia) from -3.25D to -2.50D translates to going from very blurred distance vision to very blurred distance vision; still nowhere near able to drive without correction.

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Do you know anyone who has served in the ADF?

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Fair. I see a lot of pilots & just posted a story about a helicopter pilot. We also work with professional cricketers. Army is one example of a career that has particular vision standards. For me, it’s not about Army per se but improving vision to meet requirements. mivision.com.au/2024/10/eyes...

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Eyes on the Pitch: New Focus on Cricket's UV Danger - mivision

Cricket. It’s inextricably linked to the antipodean summer… the sound of bat on ball, the sporadic cries of ‘howzat’, and the soothing drone of the commentary on the radio.

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Clearly I’m not an advertising professional, and so no I definitely don’t take that personally. I am listening. I am engaging professionals. I have to make an observation that you did engage with it - even because you hated it. You didn’t scroll immediately.

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

You make an excellent point. This is really an extension of a discussion for LinkedIn where the audience is ophthalmologists/optometrists & recruiters. But I am telling the story in a way I think would make sense to someone thinking of laser vision correction (maybe for an occupational requirement).

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

No. I can see why you might think that. What this patient’s story demonstrates is that there are some people who have occupational requirements for good vision and sometimes glasses or contacts are not an option. Also 7D of astigmatism unaided is pretty debilitating.

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

You might have missed the point that with his habitual vision, he also couldn’t get a driver’s licence or catch a ball properly.

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The context is that this arose after a discussion on LinkedIn with a police recruiter about vision standards & laser vision correction for recruitment. It wasn’t my dream to join the military. Yes I made this myself. Why? Because I think it’s more engaging than plain text which I would normally use.

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

This young man dreamed of serving his country, but severe #astigmatism with intolerance of glasses & contacts held him back. He had #LASIK & now proudly wears the uniform. #Lasereyesurgery doesn't just improve sight, it transforms lives. If your vision is holding you back, let's talk.

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

It was an honour to be able to use my great-grandfather’s ceremonial sword to cut our wedding cake; a family tradition. #AnzacDay #LestWeForget

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

His son Terry followed his path, serving as a rear gunner in bombers over Europe during WWII. His calm under pressure and loyalty to his crew were qualities spoken of long after the war. Their legacy lives on through all Australians who continue to serve with the same quiet courage.

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Brigadier Harnett served with distinction in both WWI and WWII, rising through the ranks to become a senior leader in the Australian Army. His courage was noted in dispatches, and his medals reflect campaigns across two global conflicts. #AnzacDay #LestWeForget

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Lest We Forget. This Anzac Day, I remember and honour my great-grandfather, Brigadier Edward Thomas “Eddie” Harnett, and his son, my great-uncle Flight Sergeant Terence “Terry” Harnett, whose service spanned both world wars. #AnzacDay #LestWeForget

Photo of Brigadier General Edward Thomas Harnett with his medals

Photo of Captain Edward Harnett in uniform returning to Australia in 1919.

Photo of the gravestone of Brigadier Harnett and his wife Kathleen.

Photo of my wedding; Shanel and I are cutting the wedding cake using my great-grandfather's ceremonial sword.

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

🚁She used to see air traffic second. 👩‍✈️Laser vision correction improved how she flies. Lauren is a commercial helicopter pilot who wore glasses for high astigmatism. See her story. #lasereyesurgery #LASIK #vision #eyes #SmartSight #laservisioncorrection

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

📘 What can an elite cricketer teach eye surgeons? While reviewing “Tested” by Pat Cummins for the AAO, I didn’t expect to revisit so many pearls of wisdom that are directly applicable to improving clinical practice. It’s a quiet masterclass in performing under pressure & recovering from failure.

Picture of me holding the book “Tested” by Pat Cummins

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I suspect the framing of the question is the problem (asking for a binary answer). I think some surgeons would interpret this as a personal or emotional toll that interferes with their function. That’s very different. Henry Marsh reminds us all well of the tolls of surgery.

Abstract. Surgeon Henry Marsh begins his autobiography, Do No Harm, with a quotation from the French practitioner René Leriche, "Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray —a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures"
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'A small cemetery': death and dying in the contemporary British operating theatre

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

We’re living in an age where you can tell who read dystopian fiction properly, and who didn’t.

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Another perfect example of how putting RFK Jr in charge of the DHHS is catastrophically stupid. This decision to sack Dr Pohlhaus and weaken regulations will put Americans at higher risk of severe eye infections.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

A huge loss at FDA. Peter Marks originated rhe Operation Warp Speed Covid vaccine idea and has overseen so many essential biotech programs such as genome editing cures www.wsj.com/politics/top...

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Exclusive | Top Vaccine Official Out at FDA

In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited ‘misinformation and lies’ from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

CDC ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging. “The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” a spokesperson said, echoing a line from a recent editorial RFK Jr. wrote

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This is a great video by @rubinallergy.bsky.social explaining why these “studies” will be worse than useless. In terms of govt efficiency, it’s hard to think of anything worse than public spending on an action that will damage a vax program. Only benefits charlatans www.instagram.com/reel/DHpI7qJ...

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Sooo… it’s apparently ok to interfere with sex hormones of children, as long as you don’t hold a medical licence, are using treatment in a completely unproven manner (without biological plausibility), and are ideologically aligned with the antivax head of the DHHS? Got it.

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Cancelling US based research projects like this negatively affects everyone. It’s very sad to see.

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Just one of the most compelling reasons for a government to fund medical research is that it very frequently creates economic gains. You also don't make a population healthier by cancelling medical research. Totally backwards.

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

As an ophthalmologist who sees #shingles affecting the #eye on a regular basis, this NIH grant cancellation is a terrible decision that will inevitably interfere with producing better clinical outcomes. RFK Jr is an anti-vax conspiracy theorist. #MedSky www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Her research grant mentioned ‘hesitancy.’ Now her funding is gone.

A medical researcher may have erroneously lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money because she was swept up in Trump administration efforts to ban studies of vaccine hesitancy and uptake.

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I maintain that the best emails are citation alerts. They don’t require any action. They show that other people are using your research and building on it. This particular alert refers to a subject of great interest: how do we make cataract surgery as comfortable and relaxing as possible?

It’s a citation alert
Web of Science
I Clarivate"
Greetings! Your work has been cited.
1 publications have cited your work since Mar 4th 2025.
Analysis of anxiety and pain in patients undergoing immediate sequential bilateral cataract surgery or unilateral cataract surgery
Hong, Suji; Shin, Hyemi; Kim, Woojin; Kim, Dong Hyun; Eom, Youngsub; et al.
Scientific Reports
The purpose of this study was to compare preoperative anxiety and intraoperative pain between the first and second cataract surgeries in patients who underwent immediate sequential bilateral cataract surgery (ISBCS). This retrospective s...
Cited publication:
Patient perceptions of second eye clear corneal cataract surgery using assisted topical anaesthesia
Showing 1 of 1 citing publications

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

So many questions. Does the Editor actually read it, or just paste it into ChatGPT to summarise/edit? Who buys this & why? Why not just use an AI yourself & ask the questions you want answered? It reminds me so much of Dirk Gently’s Electric Monk: could employ it to read the book & believe it.

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Carrie Price @carrieprice.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Where do you think Embase and Ovid MEDLINE and MEDLINE EBSCO and Scopus and Web of Science are getting their MEDLINE records from? Could it possibly be MEDLINE?

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ALT: a man wearing a hat and a coat stands in a hallway

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Carrie Price @carrieprice.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Is this where we say Google Scholar isn’t coming to save you? #medlibs

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I don’t know either and it’s a good question. I’m an Australian and it’s never been clearer to me that US health institutions (eg NIH, CDC) are globally significant, but vulnerable to US politics. IMHO it’s shocking that most GOP senators confirmed RFK.

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 02/03/2025

It is true. Global vandalism on an epic scale.

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Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

You can freely access all PubMed records at Europepmc.org - I just checked and it's up and running.

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Europe PMCHome - Europe PMC

Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature.

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

What do health care workers do in response to PubMed being messed with?

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The vulnerability of PubMed under RFK Jnr has been a serious concern of mine for some time. The head of DHHS is an antivax conspiracy theorist; it follows that he disagrees with a lot of published medical science, and he has significant control over access. It’s a global problem now. #MedSky

$It’s a screenshot of a previous tweet of mine: Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social * Anterior Segment Surgery * Cataracts & Refractive Surgery Cornea & External Disease Ophthalmology What mechanisms are there to safeguard integrity of the search function in PubMed under a RFK Jnr controlled DHHS? We've already witnessed how search functions elsewhere can be completely manipulated to reduce access to science for political reasons. Can we take pubmed search for granted? #Medsky November 17, 2024 at 4:33 PM & Everybody can reply$

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Did you know that if you drink alcohol it gets into the tears and also messes with the ocular surface? Oral Alcohol Administration Disturbs Tear Film and Ocular Surface - Ophthalmology www.aaojournal.org/article/S016...

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Oral Alcohol Administration Disturbs Tear Film and Ocular Surface

To investigate whether ethanol administration disturbs the tear film and ocular surface.

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Dr Daya Sharma @drdayasharma.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Interesting that there are no CPD points for a tweetorial / skeetorial. I think this is an oversight because this type of activity generates immediate peer/non-peer review and can benefit a broader audience (cf siloing that often happens in medicine). #MedSky

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