I just started my one week opthalmology. To tell the truth, I wasn't really looking forward to it cos' of my bad experience last year with the ophthalmologist who gave us a tutorial. He actually said to us all that if we are unwilling to allow him to put dilating eye-drops on ourselves, then he's not happy for us to stay for the tutorial. I mean, what happen to rights and democracy - even if we are students. So there they are telling us that patients have the right to refuse treatment, but yet we are not afforded the same rights as students?
But anyway I was glad that the registrar who took us yesterday was so willing to teach and he's NOT a PRICK! He had excellent bedside manners and was absolutely nice to us too... He taught us more ophthalmology in that one session than the last 2 years combined. And today, we were attached to a fellow who at first glance seems intimidating but turn out to be a gem too. He really taught me how to use the slit-lamp to do a examination of the eye and he let us have a few go's with some patients. I mean that's real bedside teaching.
I also got my eyes checked out too. I'm happy to report that my visual field is normal (at least my right eye) and the rest of my eyes were not too bad except for changes caused by severe myopia. We saw a patient who came in after a work-related injury where a piece of wire hooked out a piece of his iris (the colored part of your eye)... Ouch!
It wasn't still behind the cornea but you can see that his iris shape has changed from a circle to kind of a chicken drumstick. Needless to say, he was booked for urgent surgery to repair the iris cos' it could potentially cause the whole eyeball to become a ball of pus. See image below:
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