[Leica] My soft-focus eye

[bmwred735i at gmail.com (Frank Filippone)]

Thanks Peter.. I just ( yesterday) schedule cataract surgery for myself 
in February.....!

I believe that Doctors are treated with too much leniency.? I have fired 
several for office procedures or plain stupidity ( Doctors are NOT all 
created equal.? Some are better than others.) that do not match MY 
expectations.? Will continue to do so.

Health care is not an option.? Specific Doctors are chosen because they 
are on your insurance company's "list".? Get the best you can.? Demand 
the best.? Weed out the weak ones. It is YOUR health.? Advocate for 
yourself.

If your doctor can not meet your needs, why use them?? There are lots of 
doctors out there.... find another.


For those on the list that are or have been doctors, this is not an 
attack on all doctors.? It is a simple statement of consumer concern.

Frank Filippone
BMWRed735i at gmail.com

On 8/17/2021 11:20 PM, Peter Klein via LUG wrote:
> I gotta rant.
>
> Recently, I noticed that the vision in my right eye was getting 
> "smeary" and would not come into sharp focus at any distance. It looks 
> like taking a photo through a very dirty lens or filter. The other eye 
> is fine.? I called my ophthalmologist. The work-from-home receptionist 
> tried to "handle" me and offload me to an optometrist. I had to 
> insist, forcefully, that I had had several complications after 
> cataract surgery, and that I could tell the difference between the 
> need for new glasses and a medical issue. She finally agreed to give 
> me an appointment--in two months.
>
> Fortunately, my eye doc had a cancellation a week later. After a full 
> eye exam, the problem appears to be exactly what I thought it was--the 
> membrane behind my lens implant was growing back. So I am looking, in 
> effect, through a veil. I'd had this same known complication in the 
> other eye some years back, which is how I recognized it. It's not 
> serious, and it is easily corrected with a brief, painless laser 
> procedure that punches a hole through the offending membrane.
>
> BUT... my eye doc doesn't do that. So now I have to see his cornea 
> specialist colleague. Who can see me in... wait for it... two months.? 
> Then if this second doc concurs with the first, then they will 
> schedule the procedure. Who knows how long I will have to wait for that.
>
> In the meantime:
>
> 1. Is two month's wait time normal these days?
>
> 2. Why do doctors hire people whose sole purpose seems to be to 
> prevent you from seeing them? I've had several instances in my life 
> where something was seriously wrong, but I had to argue forcefully to 
> a dismissive receptionist or medical assistant to be grudgingly given 
> an appointment. In one case I was coming down with full-blown 
> pneumonia, in another, one of my retinas was detaching.? In the former 
> case I was told to man up and go back to work, in the latter, that it 
> didn't sound like anything serious, and I should call next week to 
> schedule an appointment. If I had given in to these gatekeepers, I 
> would likely have ended up hospitalized or blind in one eye.
>
> 3. (obligatory on-topic content) While my right (shooting) eye remains 
> in Pictorialist soft-focus mode, I can't focus my Leica RF, and even 
> using an autofocus Olympus isn't pleasant. Shooting with my left eye 
> feels awkward and weird. Have any of you had to switch shooting eyes, 
> and how did you do it?? Is it worth the effort to switch for a couple 
> of months?
>
> --Peter
>
>
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