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I don't think I'd be able to handle some of the more exotic cases.

Take keratoconus, for example. It doesn't seem like a very pleasant ailment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratoconus)...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Keratoconus1-800.jpg/100px-Keratoconus1-800.jpg

Apparently, victims see the world like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b5/Kc_simulation.jpg/200px-Kc_simulation.jpg

And their eyes can temporarily look like this (http://www.tedmontgomery.com/the_eye/eyephotos/pics/CornealHydrops.jpg) (creepy zombie eye warning!).

Would you be able to handle stuff like that on a semi-regular basis? Not to mention stuff like eye surgery... yech.

It'd be like cutting grapes!

I'd just prescribe eye patches. Arrrrrr.

I don't think I'd be able to handle some of the more exotic cases.

Take keratoconus, for example. It doesn't seem like a very pleasant ailment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratoconus)...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Keratoconus1-800.jpg/100px-Keratoconus1-800.jpg

Apparently, victims see the world like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b5/Kc_simulation.jpg/200px-Kc_simulation.jpg

And their eyes can temporarily look like this (http://www.tedmontgomery.com/the_eye/eyephotos/pics/CornealHydrops.jpg) (creepy zombie eye warning!).

Would you be able to handle stuff like that on a semi-regular basis? Not to mention stuff like eye surgery... yech.

Nothing I couldn't do..not any harder than being an MD.

I'm in nursing school. You can't scare me >O.