From the day that Dr. Barber went into the wards as a junior medical student until the day he retired more than forty years later, he was involved in medical care, serving his patients to the utmost of his ability.

As an ophthalmologist, he rarely de

The Joy of Medical Practice

Forty Years of Interesting PatientsBy John C. Barber

iUniverse, Inc.

Copyright © 2009 John C. Barber
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4401-5293-1

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...