The Joy of Medical Practice

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Contents

Preface..............................................................................iiiIntroduction to Eye Anatomy and Physiology...........................................xi1. Worms in Her Eyes.................................................................52. The Belly Dancer..................................................................73. Man with a Heart Attack Man.......................................................104. The Coach.........................................................................135. Dr. Bricker.......................................................................166. A Mentally Challenged Pregnant Woman..............................................207. The Jaundiced Woman...............................................................248. Hiccups...........................................................................289. The Cataract Matriarch............................................................3210. My First Cataract Operation......................................................3411. My First Corneal Transplant......................................................3912. The Lady from San Antonio........................................................4313. Results of a Hunting Accident....................................................4614. Bad Trifocals....................................................................5915. The Shakespearian Actor..........................................................6216. A Conflict of Interest...........................................................6517. The Miraculous Unveiling.........................................................6818. The Little Cross-Eyed Girl.......................................................7719. The Baby with a Congenital Orbital Teratoma......................................8120. An Infant with Aniridia..........................................................8821. The Swimmer......................................................................9222. The Girl with the Bulging Eye....................................................9523. The Five-Year-Old Surfer.........................................................9924. Bottle Rocket....................................................................10225. Boys Will Be Boys................................................................10526. Running with Scissors............................................................10827. Boy with Peters Anomaly..........................................................11128. The Snuff Dipper.................................................................11429. The Nun Who Could Not Wear Black.................................................12330. The Lady Who Sat in the Dark.....................................................13231. A Special-Needs Woman with a Corneal Transplant..................................13632. A Melanoma Survivor..............................................................13933. The Texas Bowler.................................................................14434. The Lady with Arthritic Contractures.............................................15035. The Deer Hunter..................................................................15636. The Eighty-Year-Old Tennis Pro...................................................15937. An Intraocular Lens for a Handball Player........................................16238. Paper-Thin Cornea................................................................16639. The Newsstand Operator...........................................................16940. Unusual Results from an Alkali Burn of the Eye...................................17241. The Big Thicket Thorn............................................................17742. Man-o-War Sting..................................................................18043. Daddy Is Going to Die............................................................18344. Bushy Eyebrows...................................................................18945. A Stubborn Keratoconus Patient...................................................19246. The Rock Musician................................................................19547. The Golf Pro.....................................................................19748. A Corneal Transplant Patient Who Did Drugs.......................................20049. Disingenuous Patient with a Melanoma.............................................20250. A City League Baseball Player....................................................20951. The Bottle of Jack Daniels.......................................................21352. The Fixed Cornea Episode.........................................................21653. The Vision Needs of a Preacher...................................................21954. The Ungrateful Expulsive Hemorrhage Patient......................................22355. Vision after Twenty Years of Blindness...........................................22656. The Myopic Librarian.............................................................22957. A Nun with a Sexually Transmitted Disease........................................23258. A Small Epidemic.................................................................23559. The Recreational Vehicle Driver..................................................23860. A Dislocated Lens in a Myasthenia Patient........................................24261. The Lions Club President.........................................................24562. A Strange Reaction after Cataract Surgery........................................24963. An Unusual Steroid Complication..................................................25464. Radial Keratotomy with Complications.............................................25865. Spontaneous Transplant Rejection Reversal........................................26166. Medication Confusion.............................................................26367. Herpes Simplex after Cardiac Catheterization.....................................26668. The Danger of DMSO...............................................................26969. A Grateful Patient Turned Benefactor.............................................27270. A Leading Lady of Galveston......................................................27971. The Man Who Survived Guadalcanal.................................................28272. A Nervous Resident...............................................................28573. A Shy Resident...................................................................28874. Someone Must Care for the Prisoners..............................................29575. The Snake in the Alley...........................................................29976. A Partially Blind Prisoner.......................................................30177. The Lady from New Jersey.........................................................30978. A Hydrogen Fluoride Burn.........................................................31379. The Blind Computer Science Student...............................................31780. The Irish Lady with Pemphigoid...................................................32281. One in a Million.................................................................32682. The Stevens-Johnson Syndrome Lady................................................32983. The Eye and Sex..................................................................33384. A Corneal Melting...