The Horror of Death and Body Parts & The Acute Eye.
The young woman had been admitted to the hospital for lower gastrointestinal bleeding. The internal medicine resident decided to perform an immediate sigmoidoscopy. During the procedure, the woman died. I don’t know if it was from the procedure or the disease.
Her husband screams of horror and despair could be heard throughout the hospital as soon as he learned of his wife’s death.
As I stood by reflecting on the situation, a man suddenly appeared. I first I thought he was a man from the morgue, but it turned to be an ophthalmology fellow from the nearby (UCLA’s) Jules Stein Eye Institute.
The ophthalmology fellow asked me if it would be appropriate to ask the crying man for his wife’s corneas. This made me feel a little sick, for the timing was inappropriate. I just refused to respond to his query. I support organ donation, but I feel patients must make this arrangement in advance, not during an end of life crisis.
Later, a Laverne professor patient of mine asked for my opinion regarding his getting refractive corneal surgery to replace his glasses through Jules Stein. I refused to give an opinion since I did not want to feel morally responsible for a bad outcome.
The professor had the surgery and suffered a bad outcome. He now regrets having had the procedure done. In terms of me, I don’t mine wearing glasses. I love the visual world as it presents itself through nature and life.
Healthcare reform must take into account commercial medicine as promoted by the Jules Stein’s Institute. Jules Stein advertises, ” UCLA Laser Refractive Center Offers Implantable Contact Lenses. Patients at the UCLA Laser Refractive Center now have the surgical option of contact lens implantation, also known as phakic intraocular lens (IOL) implantation, for correcting vision…. We specialize in a broad range of refractive techniques including custom LASIK, custom LASEX/PRK, conductive keratoplasty (CK), intracorneal ring implants (INTACS), astigmatic keratotomy (AK), natural lens replacement (NLR), phakic intraocular lens implantation and accommodative intraocular lens implantation.” A statement by the Institute on August 2006, and refers to patients as clients.
While in Medical school at UCLA, the ophthalmologist gave Dr. YuKuen Chung and me a cursory 4-hour lecture regarding the eye. The eye doctor felt inconvenience by his duty to educate medical students. We didn’t learn much from him.
While a resident physician, it was nearly impossible to get one of these doctors to come to the emergency room to examine a poor patient with an acute eye emergency. In fact, they never came. I memorized the ophthalmology book and taught myself acute eye emergencies. This is why today I have the largest collection of Acute Eye Conditions, and I have saved many eyes. If I freely share my data with you, it is because I own it. Profit and money are not that important to me. Knowledge and wisdom, however, are most important and sacred as were to Solomon. Not to forget, nature has given your eyes a third of your brain’s mass.
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I could never put …
I could never put contacts in my eyes, my eyes reflex is too strong to keep them open. What about PRK? I definatly dont want lasik, I hear it never heals.