Simon Jones: Putting on a show

Lots to talk about this week, so apologies if the column has something of a whirlwind feel.

Dry eye made it on to the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2 on Monday (May 17). It just happened to be on while I was having lunch, so I listened with interest – mainly to see who the producers had drafted in to talk about the condition.

I was somewhat surprised to hear author and broadcaster Jenny Eclair, and GP broadcaster Dr Sarah Jarvis talking about Lipiflow treatments and punctal plugs. Eclair has clearly suffered with severe dry eye for quite some time, and her experience would be well worth hearing in isolation, but she often talked about things that really should have been handled by a clinician. Dr Jarvis half-joked that her job had been done by Eclair.