Dr. John M Freeman MD
Ophthalmologist
6485 Poplar Ave Memphis TN, 38119About
Dr. John Freeman is an ophthalmologist practicing in Memphis, TN. Dr. Freeman specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Freeman 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. Freeman 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.
Education and Training
Georgetown University in Washington DC 1999
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1958
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Withholding treatment from newborns with severe birth defects.
- Termination of care of newborn infants.
- Informed consent for a prescription drug: impact of disclosed information on patient understanding and medical outcomes.
- Decisions about children with major handicaps.
- A rapidly growing choroidal melanoma.
- Efficacy of the ketogenic diet for infantile spasms.
- Kidney stones, carbonic anhydrase inhibitors, and the ketogenic diet.
- Growth of children on the ketogenic diet.
- Outcomes of 32 hemispherectomies for Sturge-Weber syndrome worldwide.
- Less testing is needed in the emergency room after a first afebrile seizure.
- The ketogenic diet: adolescents can do it, too.
- Chorioamnionitis, cytokines, and brain injury.
- Effect of a high-fat ketogenic diet on plasma levels of lipids, lipoproteins, and apolipoproteins in children.
- Landau-Kleffner syndrome responsive to levetiracetam.
- Efficacy of the Atkins diet as therapy for intractable epilepsy.
Treatments
- Cataracts
- Macular Degeneration
- Glaucoma
- Presbyopia
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