Your doctor will check your eye during several follow-up visits, and you'll need to use antibiotic and anti-inflammatory eyedrops to fight infection and scarring of the newly created drainage opening.

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But Brock said most people -- as many as 85% of the people on a clinic's first day -- are there to see a dentist or an eye doctor.

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Mr Assad, who trained as an eye doctor, never wanted to succeed his father but was made heir-apparent after his elder brother's death in a car crash.

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