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(for anyone confused, he's guessing her prescription)
FYI, Dr. Glaucomflecken is an ophthalmologist and has a YouTube channel full of medical comedy bits. I'd link it but I'm too tired from writing and triple-checking "Glaucomflecken" and "ophthalmologist".
I'm apparently already subscribed to him, but looks like he mostly does shorts...? I've avoided those things like the plague...
I want to watch his videos but don't really want to open the Pandora box that is shorts, trying to make me scroll forever until I'm brain dead
He's awesome. And hes doing real activism for the fucked up US medical system.
I’m a doctor and every time I write ophthalmologist I’m surprised at how many H’s there and where they end up.
Phenolphthalein is a similar experience, as a chemist
So strange to surround a T with H's like that
Of you could just not worry about it in any language that spells words sensibly. It's fenolftalein where I live.
As if my brain will let me misspell stuff, ever
I know, right? At least it's not otorhinolaryngology.
I gotchu https://youtube.com/@dglaucomflecken
Thank you! Yay, teamwork makes the fediverse go 'round!
Is his name genuinely that close to Glaucoma or is it a "stage" name. If real, I think that's wild he chose to become an ophthalmologist.
It’s a stage name. His real name is Will Flanary and Glaucomflecken is a medical term:
Glaucomflecken are small, gray-white spots that form on the front layer of the eye’s natural lens. They are the physical scars left behind when the eye has suffered a sudden, severe spike in internal pressure, typically due to an episode of acute angle-closure glaucoma.
Flecken is German for spots. Glaukomflecken just means glaucoma spots.
Oh shit, I know that channel and didn’t pick up who it was until your comment made me look closer at his profile picture. He’s pretty damn funny with healthcare relevant comedy.
I totally understand. Nice work on those words, especially if you’re on your phone.
Appreciate your appreciation ❤️
Oh man I love that guy. His vids are great. I esp love his rural medicine bits because I grew up in the boonies and it reminds me of home lmao.
Got a link to the videos?
Is he the one with the video of the farmer guy who says "my wife told me I should come in" and they all go into high alert? Lol
"did he finish the chore?" "-no, he stopped it and came to the doctor's office on his own initiative!" .......... [BIG RED BUTTON PRESSED] "GET THE CHOPPER!"
That's the guy! Don't worry, he'll get Texaco Mike on the phone! He's got the MRI machine 🤣
And it makes a really good porterhouse steak also.
Same, I love their their horrifying dependence on texaco Mike for modern medical tech.
he is a -3 cuz didn't see it coming
Yes, he could have worded that better, lol.
I had to consider what the joke was... guess my mind is on the correct lens Rx because I wear glasses also
Glasses wearing world unite.
cries in -6
I started my contacts journey at +7.5 and +7.75. I've been in +3.00 and +3.25 for about 10 years now. No one knows why I dramatically got better in 3 years but that was a wild 3 years of not really being able to see because it was changing so much.
Jeez +7.5 is incredibly uselessly blind. "Maybe can read a billboard" ass prescription
Hell I'm around where you are now, and sometimes get jealous of my myopic wife for being able to read without glasses even if it is super close.
I would put my glasses down and lose them... My eye doctor warned me though that since I'm approaching 40 I'm about to start trending the other direction. Yay...
Oh and to top it all off my right eye is a lazy eye and it doesn't like to stay centered (not very notifiable noticeable thankfully) so my brain has just decided to basically not interpret most of the info from that eye so I'm just winning over here lol.
Could be worse, -12.5 and -16 in contacts for me. Prefer it to being blind though.
Jesus, I didn't think they made contacts that thick. On the bright side, those bad boys could probably stop a direct hit from a nail gun before it hit your eye. I bet it's like wearing permanent safety glasses.
As far as I know only one company does, so uh, hope you like them because it's that or glasses thick as a submarine window. Even with the -16 I can still only get to 20/50 vision thanks to the early onset cataracts caused by the extreme myopia. Is what it is though, I don't complain.
That sucks. I'm sorry you have to deal with all that. Sounds like you have a good attitude about it at least
I appreciate the consideration. Honestly, I can see better now than in my 20s thanks to years of conscious effort to train my brain to use that eye too. When I finally got a vision test at around five years old, I was already pretty bad off in the one eye, but the other was fine at the time, so my brain just kind of learned to use it for peripheral vision and not much else. Hopefully I don't get macular degeneration or a detached retina, but what can you do but make the best of it? Take care out their folks, and get your kids eyes checked!
Gotta train your eye muscles to maintain your reading speed.
When you can feel the inertia of your contact lenses, they’ve gotten too thick
Hah i saw the "dr" first and knew what he was talking about. Also helps to be a glasses wearer in this case i guess
The rest of his username is the German word for "glaucoma spots" btw.
Diopter? I don’t even know her.
He has made some hilarious videos about being a doctor, for those who don't know who he is. Can highly recommend
Oh hello, Jimothy
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