Earlier today I went to the optometrist for a new prescription for my
tinted glasses. I've always been really light sensitive to the point
that I have to wear heavily tinted shades indoors or out, day or night,
and it was time to see if I could get them even darker. Well, this visit
the doctor told me that they thought the reason I was so light sensitive
was because I had a special kind of cataract in both eyes, and that with
surgery they could help me.

So they sent me to talk to pre op and had me consent to sign papers of
consent for surgery, which consists of making a 3 mm sized incision in
my eye, after an injection of a local annesthetic under my eye, and
blasting the cataract with ultrasound waves, and then inserting a
specially tinted lens in my eye. I'm totally freaking from this,
especially when they run down the list of dangers and possible side
effects, ranging from swelling around the eye to blindness or even
death...But they then reassure me that the chances are highly slim and
rarely happen, and doctors preform this all the time. So I suck it up
and sign, right?

Then like five minutes after I sign, this doctor that looks like they
haven't graduated from high school yet, much less med school, walks in
and introduces herself as the doctor who'll be preforming the surgery. I
ask just how many times she's done the procedure, and you know what she
says? "Oh, this'll be my very first and I'm excited, aren't you?"

Excited? I'm freakin' horrified! WTF is up with the 'bait and switch'
tactic when they lead me to believe the doctor with years of experience
will be doing the procedure, and then tell me after signing the consent
forms that med school Barbie will be the one doing it? Am I
over-reacting? -=X

No Student WOuld Ever GET AT ME

OK, that's what I'm saying! What happens during the surgery when she
gets the giggles and snorts while putting the incision in my eye? Like
women are gonna want to date a freakin' cyclops! -=x

I had a tooth pulled by USC students they did a good job, I dont know
about scalpals around my eyes period

exactly ..

Dude! Getout of it man. Jusyt don't show for the appointment thats all.
I mean fake sick or something. I dunno.
Tell your pimary Doctor you don't feel comfortable with this doctor.
Maybe he/she can recormend another who looks like death wormed over.LOL

yea but the surgery doesnt consist of alot my father had it..Iwould just
go with it but thats me..But if you feel uncomfortable than dont do
it...ask for another surgeon or something..I look at things differently
though i mean you gotta start somewhere dont ya

i dont know i cant even bring my self to touch my eyball alone of some
stranger poking around it... sketchy

I would everyone has to start off somewhere and the student will be
supervised and they wouldnt let the student do it if they hand some
experience

I SUPPOSE.. maybe i dont know i might let them

there is know way she is a student if she said i'm the doctor that will
be perfoming the surgery she must have graduated

thats true

"I would everyone has to start off somewhere and the student will be
supervised and they wouldnt let the student do it if they hand some
experience "

if it was cutting my hair or cleaning my teeth, that'd be one
thing...But my eyesight isn't something I can just say "Aw, well
everyone has to start somewhere. Go ahead and practice on me eyes first
and get you some experience!", you know?

And I already said I'd wait till I could get a different surgeon and
they were trying to convince me that she was a qualified surgeon to do
the procedure. I was like "OK, if its her first time on a patient, she's
qualified in theory, not in fact" and they then told me how she actually
has done the surgery before. I ask who and how it turned out and then
they admitted that the other surgeries were preformed on cadavers! Screw
that! lol! -=x

"there is know way she is a student if she said i'm the doctor that will
be perfoming the surgery she must have graduated "

Actually in medical centers with a teaching program, students CAN
preform surgery as long as they are under the supervision of a certified
surgeon. -=x

wow you really just made a valid point to me i would never let someone
cut my hair if it was there first time i had a hard time yesterday
letting this guy cut my hair yesterday and he's been cutting hair for 22
years..

is the surgery actuall going to be done with a scalpel though? i had
lasik surgery and they had a tool(not a scalpel)that made the incision.

Nope, an actual stainless steel hyper sharp scapel. And to be honest, I
don't know if I would feel much more comfortable with a first timer
using a pin point beam of highly concentrated light that if
miscaculated can sear flesh easily...lol -=x

NO!!!!

the thing they used to make the incision wasn't a beam(that was later).
they actually placed a cylindrical object over the eyeball and it
clamped the eye and roteted to make a perfect incision. the laser was
computer guided so that it would calculate and adjust for normal eye
movement.
they wouldn't let her perform if she wasn't capable but if you are at
all uncomfortable i would request an experienced DR.

lmao.."would you let a student use a scalpel on your eye" would be a
good line in a song or a poem lol