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Ready or not...here are 13 more jokes to make you groan!
1. Patient: "What’s that floater doing in my eye, doctor?" Doctor: “The sidestroke.”
2. Doctor: “Have your eyes ever been checked before?” Patient: “No, they’ve always been hazel.”
3. Why did the cyclops have to close his school? He had only one pupil!
4. Why wouldn’t the optometrist learn any jokes? He had heard that a joke can help break the eyes.
5. What is it called when you poke your eye with safety glasses? Eye-rony!
6. Did you here about the new website for people with chronic eye pain? It’s a site for sore eyes.
7. When are your eyes not eyes? When an onion makes them water!
8. Why do beekeepers have such beautiful eyes? Because beauty is in the eye of the bee holder!
9. Why were the teacher’s eyes crossed? Because she couldn’t control her pupils.
10. What's your eye doctor's favorite treat? Candy cornea!
11. What has four eyes and a mouth? The Mississippi.
12. Did you...

The majority of cataract surgeries performed in the U.S. are done with a local anesthetic and IV sedation.
The local anesthesia may be accomplished in one of two ways: either an injection of anesthetic around the eye or anesthetic eye drops placed on the eye, often combined with an injection of a small amount of anesthetic into the front of the eye at the very beginning of surgery.
The injection of anesthetic around the eye generally produces a deeper anesthesia for the surgery than the topical method but it also comes with increased risk. There is a very small chance of potentially serious bleeding behind the eye and a rare chance of inadvertent penetration of the back of the eye with the injection needle.
The topical anesthesia has lower risk but does not provide quite as deep of an anesthesia, although the overwhelming majority of people having cataract surgery with a topical anesthetic do not experience any significant pain during the procedure.
The other...
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