This photo tells why Hardeep misses the practice of medicine overseas. In America we are fortunate to have excellent medical care. Patients rightly expect good care, and have easy access to physicians. This is not so in many areas of the developing world. This man had cataract surgery in Kano, and when we removed his dressing the next day he was very happy and immediately knelt down to pray. Another reason why we do not see this in America is that patients have cataract surgery done much earlier than they do here. In the US, many patients will have the surgery done when their vision drops down to 20/40 (legal cutoff for getting a drivers licence), but here in Nigeria we usually wait until the patient is 20/200 (legally blind). So the patients in America usually do not have the same dramatic changes the patients in Nigeria see.
Saturday, March 26, 2005
Cataract Surgery in Nigeria
This is from Devin's blog:
This photo tells why Hardeep misses the practice of medicine overseas. In America we are fortunate to have excellent medical care. Patients rightly expect good care, and have easy access to physicians. This is not so in many areas of the developing world. This man had cataract surgery in Kano, and when we removed his dressing the next day he was very happy and immediately knelt down to pray. Another reason why we do not see this in America is that patients have cataract surgery done much earlier than they do here. In the US, many patients will have the surgery done when their vision drops down to 20/40 (legal cutoff for getting a drivers licence), but here in Nigeria we usually wait until the patient is 20/200 (legally blind). So the patients in America usually do not have the same dramatic changes the patients in Nigeria see.
This photo tells why Hardeep misses the practice of medicine overseas. In America we are fortunate to have excellent medical care. Patients rightly expect good care, and have easy access to physicians. This is not so in many areas of the developing world. This man had cataract surgery in Kano, and when we removed his dressing the next day he was very happy and immediately knelt down to pray. Another reason why we do not see this in America is that patients have cataract surgery done much earlier than they do here. In the US, many patients will have the surgery done when their vision drops down to 20/40 (legal cutoff for getting a drivers licence), but here in Nigeria we usually wait until the patient is 20/200 (legally blind). So the patients in America usually do not have the same dramatic changes the patients in Nigeria see.
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