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OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA

1946; BMJ; Volume: 30; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bjo.30.10.631

1468-2079

R. Orr, A.W. Mulock Houwer,

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plan is for surgeon and patient to part at once.If, in a moment of aberration, one has ordered a +2'0 sph.for a myope of -20 D., no wonder if the latter be querulous.But many cases, indeed most, are not so straightforward as this.'If a patient appears to be unreasonable there is, we believe, usually some cause for it apart from the actual ministrations of the doctor.Some people are very hard to please and some would seem to have made up their minds before the examination -starts to be troublesome.But often the general health is at fault anid if you find evidence of advanced vascular disease in the fundus oculi you will be able to make allowances for asperity of temper and other short comings.A sense of hu-mour helps some people, for there is often something ludicrous in these people's fancies; but it is just as well to keep your fun to yourself unless you know the patient very well indeed.It seems likely that, tunder state control, some patients will continue to be dissatisfied; and that a large l)roportion of the profession will be as well, 'seems to be as certain as the fact that Mrs. Gamp liked her beer drawn mild.That eminent practitioner would surely have resenited interference with her professional liberty and in our mind's eye we can see her consigning the bill to Jonadge's belly along 'with the Ankworks package.When we were young a story went round the town of a dissatisfied patient who called on an ophthalmologist of international reputation to say that the glasses which had been -ordered were not;what he wanted.He adopted rather a truculent attituide and ended up by saying " I'm not.satisfied.""Well, I am,"' retorted the oculist and the patient was dismissed.With free treatment for all there will be nothing to prevent a patient from consulting a different doctor every other week.What will be the reaction of those i-n authority, as the-forms come home to their official pigeon holes, when it is found that Diogenes has consulted evety doctor from Alpha to Omega in the short period of six months ?OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRAL-IA Discussion on blindness in Prisoners of War A IEMORABLE meeting was held in Melbourne on May 2 wlhen the Victorian section of the Ophthalmological Society of Australia (B.M.A.) met to discuss the blindness that affected Prisoners of War.Dr. F. G. Fenton was in the chair.Dr. Robin' Orr described the types of disease he had observed and the various conditions-with which these could have been associated A corneal condition referred to as " granular cornea " copyright.