Inuit in northern Quebec are now able to take vision tests using the Inuktitut writing system, after two Montreal doctors developed eye exam charts in syllabics. Christian El-Hadad, a McGill ...

This week’s question was asked by: a close relative. QUESTION:Why is there that big E on the top of eye charts? ANSWER: We can credit Dr. Hermann Snellen, a Dutch ophthalmologist at the Netherlands ...

While working at a clinic in the village of Puvirnituq in Nunavik, ophthalmologist Christian El-Hadad and his colleague Nishaant Bhambra encountered many Inuit patients who were unilingual. In this ...