Dr. John W Gittinger MD
Ophthalmologist
2005 Bay St Suite 201 Taunton MA, 02780About
Dr. John Gittinger is an ophthalmologist practicing in Taunton, MA. Dr. Gittinger specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Gittinger 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. Gittinger 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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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cutaneous melanoma-associated paraneoplastic retinopathy: histopathologic observations.
- The legacy of David G. Cogan, MD.
- Radiation and cataracts: cause or cure?
- Case 3-2001: unilateral visual loss.
- Selective immunohistochemical staining in the paraneoplastic retinopathy syndrome.
- Studies in human ecology: factors governing the adaptation of Chinese unable to return to China.
- Studies in human ecology; factors relevant to the occurrence of bodily illness and disturbances in mood, thought and behavior in three homogeneous population groups.
- The Ophthalmic Clinical Evaluation Exercise (OCEX).
- Proverbs, authoritative sources, eponyms, and the survey of ophthalmology.
- Is the code already broken?
- Core competencies in ophthalmology.
- References and other cited material.
- Degrees of fictitiousness.
- Disorders of the ocular motor nerves.
- Disorders of the ocular motor nerves.
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