My eye doctor did that on one of my recent visits. Apparently my astigmatism is exceptional…
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ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 1 month ago
It’s always a great feeling when a doctor looks at something from you and then calls their colleagues to look as well…
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 month ago
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is it better when it’s a bunch of young doctors?
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 1 month ago
They just want to see freaky stuff. E. g. my appendix ruptured when I was 15 and it took my mother a few days to realize I’m not faking. So I have a bunch of scars, some parts are missing and other’s just look a bit off. Nothing I don’t know or can’t live with.
But when they call their fully grown colleagues to look at THAT. That’s creepy. That’s not good.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I’d say yes. If it’s regular rare it’s interesting for the younglings, if its extra rare it’s interesting even for the experienced.
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A little better, at least then it’s something the doctor likely understands, but thinks it is at least a bit of a teachable situation.
If they call in a peer or superior, then it means something was over their depth and then you really worry.
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Back in school went to the school clinic for strep throat, and upon listening to my heart, he said “just a moment”, then pulled in the med student and quizzed them on what they were hearing and how it was abnormal.
Which led to a follow up echocardiogram where the technician was explaining everything we were looking at and what it was, until a very specific view then she shut up, tapped a bunch of things on the device, printed out something, then moved to another view and resumed describing everything except what she just saw.
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 1 month ago
How… reassuring… did she ever tell you what that was about?
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh the tech wasn’t allowed to discuss medically relevant stuff.
The doctor followed up and I have an essentially benign heart anomaly. Growing up first doctors didn’t think it was worth exploring, then doctors said it went away, that was my first visit to a doctor after moving to a bigger city and those doctors were shocked a doctor would say it went away and not even bother to image it before dismissing it.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 month ago
“Good news, you’re about to have a disease named after you!”