Dr. Tassos Georgiou, M.D

Diagnostis has a paramount significance in modern medicine in general and particularly in the field of ophthalmology. A wrong diagnosis and consequent erroneous treatment can cause lead toirreparable damages – physical, moral and financial. Following two wrong diagnoses, numerous tests and several months of inefficient treatment, ophthalmologists in Bellarus diagnosed Christina K., a resident of Vitebsk, as afflicted with exudative retinitis, known as Coats’ disease. Since inappropriate treatment had been administered in the early stages of the disease (the doctor prescribed injections ),an initially reversible