DAGNY ZHU, M.D.
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eye health

How to Beat Dry Eye This Winter

Happy Sunday!! I’m livestreaming the Oscars today and resting up for my 6-day workweek ☺️. I love bundling up on the couch because it has been a record cold with SNOW ❄️ in SoCal! That also means I’ve been hearing Read more…

By dagnyzhu, 2 weeks2 months ago
clinic

Happy Saturday Clinic

Happy Saturday morning! Saturdays are our most popular surgical consult day—we have 79 patients (that’s 158 eyeballs) on the schedule! As a trainee who was always working in someone else’s clinic, I often felt bitterly overwhelmed. But as a recent Read more…

By dagnyzhu, 3 weeks2 months ago
LASIK

LASIK Myths Part II

Thank you for all your great questions on my last post ❤️ Let’s bust some more LASIK myths today! 5️⃣ Dry eye is an absolute contraindication – Many LASIK candidates already have some dryness due to contact lens wear (4x Read more…

By dagnyzhu, 4 weeks2 months ago
LASIK

LASIK Myths Part I

There is a lot of misunderstanding and misplaced fear surrounding LASIK. As a board-certified LASIK surgeon and cornea specialist, I can say that my LASIK patients are some of my HAPPIEST patients. If I could have a clinic FULL of Read more…

By dagnyzhu, 1 month2 months ago
cataract

The Cataract Surgery Dance

My practice is closed on Mondays, but I (happily) drive through LA traffic to staff residents in the cataract OR at USC. Residents spend their final year of residency perfecting this beautiful but dangerously precarious dance as follows: 1️⃣ The Read more…

By dagnyzhu, 1 month2 months ago
medschool

Why I Did Fellowship Training

[Whitecoat Wisdom Wednesday- To do a fellowship or not to do a fellowship?…] For hundreds of ophthalmology residents applying to fellowship, the deadline to submit their rank list is next week! A fellowship is an optional 1+ year(s) of additional Read more…

By dagnyzhu, 2 months2 months ago
medlife

LA County Strong

Today was my first day staffing residents in the cataract OR at USC+LA County Medical Center as a volunteer attending. It was my first time walking through the old County hallways since graduation, and it brought back a flood of Read more…

By dagnyzhu, 2 months2 months ago
cataract

Keep That Glass Half-Full

Glass half-empty: This past Saturday, I had to operate (15 cataracts and 5 LASIK) for 13-hours straight with little time to rest and eat in between. Glass half-full: This past Saturday, I had the privilege of caring for 20 people Read more…

By dagnyzhu, 2 months2 months ago
application tips

Why I Chose Ophthalmology

[WWW- How to choose a medical specialty] Welcome to another  #whitecoatwisdomwednesday for healthcare professionals in training! Following the 20/20 theme this week ( à la Justin Timberlake), let’s talk about how I decided on ophthalmology. I’ve gotten so many questions Read more…

By dagnyzhu, 2 months2 months ago
cataract

Super Surgery Weekend

Survived another Super Surgery Weekend! And boy what a weekend it was. Did 40 cataract surgeries back to back. Once a month, we do cataract surgery 4 days in a row from Thursday until Sunday. We do this for the Read more…

By dagnyzhu, 2 months2 months ago
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Misfortunes are often a blessing in disguise. ... Misfortunes are often a blessing in disguise.
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I spent most of this Thanksgiving weekend in the operating room at the crack of dawn, working >10-hour days and performing over 20 surgeries  back to back.
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But I am beyond thankful to have patients who chose to spend their holiday with us and literally put their trust (and sight) in our hands.
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For those of us in medicine, the sacrifices we make in this journey always become more apparent during the holiday season. But then we remember that we chose to dedicate our lives to the profession of healing others. We are the select few who have been given this extraordinary privilege. And for that, we count our blessings everyday🙏🏻.
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My baby niece, Claire, is thankful for her second turkey 🦃 day (swipe 👆🏻) and hopes everyone had the most wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! 😘#happythanksgiving #blessed #medlifebalance
It’s that time again 🍂—interview season!!! It’s that time again 🍂—interview season!!! I just started interviewing for Harvard College Early Action last week. It’s my 3rd year now volunteering as a local admissions interviewer, and every year I’m just blown away by the caliber of applicants! Students are now publishing research articles and founding nonprofit organizations in high school 😱.
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In an environment where competition is fierce and overachieving seems to be the norm, it’s become harder and harder to identify what’s real or not—to distinguish the genuinely passionate from the formulaic resume box-checkers. After an hour of conversation with me, though, the truth usually reveals itself 😏.
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To all my young go-getters out there, you are brilliant, energetic, and SO full of life. But overachieving without purpose is unsustainable. You will burn out before you ever take flight 🦋. Take it from a self-proclaimed overachiever: Figure out what drives you. Where your true passion lies. Then do it for NO ONE, but yourself. And always, be kind—to others and especially, to yourself. You are our future 💫.
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Wearing my favorite 🥼 whitecoat here from @medelita_gram. They’re having an amazing early Black Friday sale until Thanksgiving! Use the link in my bio for extra savings on embroidered whitecoats and scrubs this holiday season! You deserve it 🙂🎁.
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