Cataract

Flomax ® is taken by most men for benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH).  For several years, it has been implicated in causing intraoperative complications with cataract surgery.  The study found that patients that took Flomax (tamsulosin) within two weeks prior to cataract surgery had an increased risk...

I have always felt that this is a lousy analogy although used by many, many eye doctors.  It puts the patient in a more passive mode and relinquishes decision making to the doctor.  It sounds like there is a finite time to have cataract surgery...